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Actually she is a blonde which might have accounted for half of the cost. But most of the cost is for documentation, courier services and transportation to and from the "interview". As with anything it is all the little necessary surrounding costs that add up to serious money.
Cantx - the last half of your post #23 is a lot truer than you think. When we get older, we are cursed with a memory of what it was like in the "old days." And looking at what is necessary these days really riles and makes for a lot of head shaking.
- - For instance, I needed an ITIN for my new foreign wife. (That is a taxpayers identification number which in in lieu of a Social Security Number). She cannot do any financial transaction or be tied to any of mine without either a SS# or a ITIN. That alone is a big reason to get riled up. But, in the "old days" you could just apply for an ITIN and they would simply issue you one, after all, it is only a "reference number" and not an identification or anything else. So now we find out that we have to have certified identification documents, and six other silly procedures and 6 months to a year of waiting to get what years ago was simply issued on the spot.
- - Bottom line, the world has dramatically changed for us "old timers" - the young kids do not have a "memory" of what it was like before. So they will think that the sad state of things today will be their "good old days" when they reach our ages. Now that is depressing . . .
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