22 2 / 2012

It’s 6:43am in Paris on DD’s last day off before going back to work and I’m already awake and about to take a shower.  This can only mean one thing: a new battle with French bureaucracy is about to commence.  Yesterday DD and I picked up our certificat de mariage from the Mairie in the 18th and we went to the address where the website told us to go to get a temporary Visa as my current one expires at the end of the month and my renewal appointment isn’t until the end of April.  We arrived to find an empty, makeshift queue and a locked building.  Thankfully, I was thirsty and stopped in the sandwich shop across the street for a bottle of water.  DD asked the patron what was going on over there and apparently it hasn’t been in operation for 3 weeks!  Someone must have been looking out for us since this guy actually knew the name of the street to where the office had moved.  So now we’re planning to get there to queue at 8:30 today (there is a bit of a time issue since DD has to be with me and this is his last week day off work until next month). I realize this is probably a totally banal and uninteresting story for most of you, but I’m waiting for my wedding pictures and until I get them, you’re just going to have to hear about my bureaucratic trials and tribulations.  Let’s hope we have all the right documents!  Have a good day everyone …

It’s 6:43am in Paris on DD’s last day off before going back to work and I’m already awake and about to take a shower.  This can only mean one thing: a new battle with French bureaucracy is about to commence.  Yesterday DD and I picked up our certificat de mariage from the Mairie in the 18th and we went to the address where the website told us to go to get a temporary Visa as my current one expires at the end of the month and my renewal appointment isn’t until the end of April.  We arrived to find an empty, makeshift queue and a locked building.  Thankfully, I was thirsty and stopped in the sandwich shop across the street for a bottle of water.  DD asked the patron what was going on over there and apparently it hasn’t been in operation for 3 weeks!  Someone must have been looking out for us since this guy actually knew the name of the street to where the office had moved.  So now we’re planning to get there to queue at 8:30 today (there is a bit of a time issue since DD has to be with me and this is his last week day off work until next month).

I realize this is probably a totally banal and uninteresting story for most of you, but I’m waiting for my wedding pictures and until I get them, you’re just going to have to hear about my bureaucratic trials and tribulations.  Let’s hope we have all the right documents!  Have a good day everyone …

(via bonparisien)

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