Bells Ringing

[greenstorm]

First, the thing: my BCID will arrive in the mail within three weeks, under the name DeShong.

Now, for the rest of you: I haven't had photo ID since my passport was accidentally thrown out on the move out from Mission, when I was 18ish. This was so primarily because there was a big mess-up namewise when I came across the border, and I didn't have enough documents in the same last name to follow through on that sort of thing.

I've been chipping away at it for years now, and this is the first real, serious breakthrough I've had. It's weird, because the name they put on it is different than my other legal Canada stuff, and I know it'll come back to bite me later, but meh. PhotoID! I feel almost like a real person.

It's pretty cool.

$35 on the pile.

When it comes, I can go for my US passport.

Both citizenship and permanent resident card will be a little tricky, because they'll need the record of landing photocopy, which is one name, and some other ID, which is in the different name. All I can do is send in with what I have and hope it comes back. Both citizenship and permanent resident card will be a bit expensive, so I'm glad mom's still paying. :/

Assuming I can get that far, the next step is an official change of name, which will run another three hundred bucks but will finally allow me to have all my papers and stuff in the same name.

But! I'm closer, I think...

Comments

[khamura.livejournal.com]

That's great news! Hope the babysteps will get you there. (They're frustrating me right now, stupid application-related bureaucracy grumble grumble...)

[estrellada.livejournal.com]

woot! It's almost like you're a real person!
next: voting and travel!
ps: they're starting to register people to vote in the next provincial election.