Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:53 am

John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:23 pm

I ask how this could happen, and why neither school nor embassy notified us this visa issue, i mean, they have computers, databases, contacts, follow-up, registers....cross checking data would highlight this issue pretty quickly, i'm thinking...

Turns out the law changed while we were in, and nobody told us that kids now have to get a proper visa extension.

Children with two foreign parents under the age of 12 got gratis visas until just a year or two ago. It pissed a few of my friends off when they changed it, but it's your onus to keep informed about this kind of stuff.

Yeah, well nobody told us, even by the agents who saw me taking care of my and my wife's passports at their agency, even accompagned with my kid, so turns out if nobody asks, nobody tells, and everybody seems pretty useless for that matter.

It could have gone a long time like this, until we had to get out for some reasons (holidays, sickness....).

It's true that you have to know your obligations, but i'm amazed that all these people with computers and database can't fuckin manage to spread the information at least through the schools and embassies, for fuck sake. It's not like we didn't registered everywhere.

Can't spend my life checking if law changes for this and that on a weekly basis. Can you ? Do you ? See...