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I wish it was easier to leave and immigrate. It's actually incredibly arduous to get all the paperwork needed for a passport, work visas, international application, etcetcetc.
Especially if you have family. Especially if you don't have a perfect little life. Needing to get documents or information from shitty relatives.... Try getting birth certs when you don't know where to look. You need that for a passport. Try getting a child a passport when their biofather is an absentee.
I'm assuming you're from the US based on your post. If so, you should be able to obtain a copy of your birth certificate online directly from the state you were born in for a small fee. Search online for "(your state) vital records." No shitty relative interaction required.
The passport thing for a child with absentee parents is a bit more difficult but can be done. I believe you need either a notarized affidavit or court order to accompany the child's passport application. Good luck.
yea you can buy your certificate online, but you will have to be willing to give up more data about yourself than you like. i think your local city agency cost alot less. i gave up after i found my original , since the online one was in limbo because they couldnt confirm my moms maiden name for some reason, since she was born in china, it complicated things, because it ended up confusing them and they want more proof.
Well...they need to find the exact certificate. Of course they're going to ask for more information. And it's a legal document, of course they want to verify certain things.
I've ordered dozens of birth, marriage, and death certificates online(family tree) from different cities and different countries. Most are pretty painless and there was only one that has given me a bunch of shit for it and it's Orange County in California.
Your situation I can definitely see adding more confusion into the mix and I'm sorry to hear that, but nothing you've said so far has been obscene from my experience.
i think you can try your states human services, or just type in how to get birth certificate, there is an online paid way, but it requires to pay more than in person, and give up more details about yourself. passports, you will have to schedule that asap(assuming you renewd within 10-15years) since appts are booked like weeks,months in advanced.
I somehow managed it a few years ago. Doing it during COVID wasn't fun, say that much.
We desperately want out of the US so I've been trying to find a tech job in Ireland since 2024. I've had one interview in that time... how did you do it?
Have you tried recruitment agencies? They're unusually popular here and might help you get over the hump.
I've sent emails to fourteen different recruitment agencies based in Ireland, places like:
redchairrecruitment.ie gcsltd.com/ireland randstad.ie
I used erfireland.com to search for recruitment agencies and just went down the list sending emails. The only one to respond was red chair and they essentially said "you're in the US so you're fucked, glhf".
If you know of one (or twenty) I could try, please do send them my way!
It's possible to get jobs in other countries with English-only. Sorry I don't have specifics, and of course that isn't a guarantee, but I know this to be true at least in the Nordics. Some companies even communicate in English internally.
Though if you do emigrate into a country where english is not the native language, still prepare to learn the local language(s), even if you can work in english. If you don't, you'll never be fully part of the society, and things are a lot harder
Yeah, my work in my non-anglophone country is all in English unless we're in a non-recorded verbal meeting and confirm no foreigners present.
I have a British parent, got the passport about 15 years ago. Unfortunately my wife and child need visas to live here, we have to deal with that in a couple months again, and continue until they're eligible for leave to remain. I think my kid can naturalize in a while, but my wife will need to seek citizenship if Reform gets into power.
Honestly, just get the citizenship now, rather than later (if feasible); I know it's a different country so things certainly aren't a necessary one-to-one but my mom's side of the family is all immigrants and, while it might not be safe for much longer in the U. S., I'm thankful every day we're not dealing with a much more immediate Hell because they all got their citizenship finally 10–15 years ago, when conditions were much less pressing.
You're probably right. She's still a little burnt out on high stakes testing after going back through uni for a new career, but we'll probably seek it as soon as they're both eligible.