Please read this message I have received from another frustrated American, it demonstrates the level of professionalism and the unwillingness to be effective of some administrative employees which we sometimes are subjected to their arbitrary decisions...
"Arbitarary because YOU did not know the rues and expected the person doing the passports to know the rules. Often they do not and since that does no tmean they shouldn't answer, they simply make things up. This is a training proble, it is an issue you need to be aware an dan issue you need to insist on fair treatment about.
"Start by getting the instructions for anything you are doing and rading them carefully. So far in my family of three immigrants...
1. DMV told one son, but not the other, they needed his "marriage certificate" because he was a K-2. :unsure:
2. The DMV told one son, but not the other, that he needed an SSN for a drivers license (not in Vermont) The same clerk, after being corrected by a supervisor, told the same bad information to another immigrant just a few minutes later while we were within hearing distance! Can you guess how THAT turned out?
3. SS office told one son with a green card, but not the other, that they needed to see his VISA! NO they don't, he has a green card!
4. The passport office office told us we needed permission from the birth father for one son to get a US passport. OR a divorce certificate allowing my wife to get him a passport. This was at the US passport office, NOT the post office.
5.The DMV told one son but not the other that he could have a four year drivers license even though he had a two year green card. I insisted this was not possible, the law only allows the issuance of the license for as long as their authorization in the USA. THEY had told me this when the first son got his license. I showed them in the law. The clerk insisted, INSISTED they "no longer do it that way" and issued him a license for four years. When his two year green card expired they sent a revocation of his license and he had to take the test over again after showing his extension letter!!!!!!!! Nice surprise..."oh by the way, your drivers license is no good as of 3 weeks AGO" Since the license had "expired" he could not just renew it, he had to take the driving test again!
6. My wife was told her green card was not adequate to prove eligibility for employment. She needed an EAD. :bonk:
7. my wife was told IN WRITING she had to be a citizen for student aid and that her request for an education grant was denied. But the same day another letter arrived telling her she was issued a grant for her education from the same organization (VSAC) :wacko: This was also after she had received several other student grants. :huh:
And you have to understand our case has had NO problems compared to some people. In every one of these cases I KNEW what I needed, I HAD the proper documentation and references to their OWN rules with me and corrected each by speaking with a supervisor.e
Gary
COSMOPOLITAN

