Urgent call for assistance.
Dear friends, I find myself breaking my self-imposed exile from LiveJournal for something more important than the ideals which inspired it. Cutting to the chase, I say:
I need someone, anyone who is near enough to Norristown, Pennsylvania to get there and acquire legal paperwork for me.
Long story short, I'm getting my passport updated for a trip in about six weeks (it'll be expedited, so I'll get it in time... hopefully) and it turns out that the actual useful part of my name change paperwork is missing. Despite having every bit of legal evidence that it happened - state I.D., Social Security account, and voter registration - they need to see the name change order directly. This will involve handing slightly over five dollars to a notary. I could send an SASE and hope that it showed up sometime soon, but this seems risky. The application is already filed, and when they call me to ask where the paperwork is, I can't just tell them to look at the public record in Pennsylvania, no matter how easy it is to do.
So what am I offering? The cost of the document, the cost of travel, the cost of mailing the thing to me in Seattle as quickly as feasible, and I can even throw in the cost of a decent lunch or whatever. I'm easily extorted at this point. Make me an offer; I'm too desperate to refuse.
Thanks in advance.
I need someone, anyone who is near enough to Norristown, Pennsylvania to get there and acquire legal paperwork for me.
Long story short, I'm getting my passport updated for a trip in about six weeks (it'll be expedited, so I'll get it in time... hopefully) and it turns out that the actual useful part of my name change paperwork is missing. Despite having every bit of legal evidence that it happened - state I.D., Social Security account, and voter registration - they need to see the name change order directly. This will involve handing slightly over five dollars to a notary. I could send an SASE and hope that it showed up sometime soon, but this seems risky. The application is already filed, and when they call me to ask where the paperwork is, I can't just tell them to look at the public record in Pennsylvania, no matter how easy it is to do.
So what am I offering? The cost of the document, the cost of travel, the cost of mailing the thing to me in Seattle as quickly as feasible, and I can even throw in the cost of a decent lunch or whatever. I'm easily extorted at this point. Make me an offer; I'm too desperate to refuse.
Thanks in advance.