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Passports & Medicals

So in order to send off for Tabitha's passport today, we had to take the forms down to the court house. Despite the somewhat informal content of the forms themselves, in order to get into the court house we were subjected to an airport style bag search by armed guards, and had to pass through an x-ray machine.

We then gave the forms to a woman behind a thick glass counter and she checked them over, took the fee, and then asked us to raise our right hands and swear that this was infact Tabitha Lily Jones. I found I was unable to do this without giggling incredulously which earned me quite the frown. I guess it's some kind of American thing but why on earth does my holding my right hand in the air make me more likely to tell the truth than, say, not holding it in the air at all?

After this was done we went to get our medical exams for our Green Card application. This consisted of several inches of paperwork per person, a blood test for G & I, a tetanus shot for me, and a TB skin prick test for all of us. We have to return on Friday to check the TB thing and complete the medical. All our paperwork, except the medical results, has now been submitted and hopefully it won't be too long before we're permanent residents of the US, which is cool and means I can work if I want to (which of course I don't ).