Mug shot done

We lucked out and Kinko's was willing to take Lissi's passport photo. I say we lucked out, because friends of ours have been turned away from Kinko's because they don't do kids pictures... So after a painless excursion for pictures (and then 38 cent copies of the pictures because we needed 5 passport sized photos in total) we headed to the post office. There we sent out a thick file containing more paperwork (and another large check) to get Lissi's Certificate of Citizenship. Because she was not born in the country, it is best to have the official government record saying that she is a citizen and make sure all the government computers classify her as a citizen.

On Thursday we will have our first opportunity to wait in line at the post office during "passport hours" and wait in line to submit an application for her passport. No, we have no big trips planned. But again, we are trying to line up all our paperwork and get it out of the way so that she does not have any trouble later trying to prove her citizenship.