When I was in Costa Rica exploring the option of retiring there 5 years ago I was told by my friend, George Lundquist, I would need to learn to take things slowly. Be patient. That is a tall order for a girl that has been living in a large city most of her life. I drive like a bat out of hell to get to work everyday, and 9 hours later do the same thing to get home. I'm rushing at work and rushing to everywhere I go. Now now now!!!!
I am already learning the lesson of "poco a poco;" little by little. I am on top of it...Soon as I got home from my trip 3 weeks ago I immediately researched how and where to get my apostilles for my residency status in CR. I quickly got the papers together, overnighted them to Austin with an overnight return envelope. 6 days later I came home from work and my return envelope was on the front porch. I excitedly opened it ready to see my apostilles and ship them straight to my attorney in Costa Rica. I was stopped dead in my tracks. Only the background check had an apostille. I sent my original birth certificate and my papers from Social Security. They rejected the birth certificate saying I needed a more recent one...hold the phone! They seriously rejected my original birth certificate with all the info required on it and the State Seal. I had to send off for a new copy of my birth certificate! Another overnight envelope with another overnight return envelope. The Social Security papers that came from the US government to me they said I needed to sign somewhere on the page with a notary! We had to draw lines to sign on.
Yesterday my birth certificate was on my front porch, and I had my Social Security papers notarized. So, I put it back together and sent them overnight to Austin with another overnight enclosed envelope. This has become very expensive.
What I thought would be an easy one week process turned into over 2 weeks, and it will probably be another 6 days before my overnight envelope lands on my front porch again. Hopefully, this time with apostilles. Poco a poco.....I'm trying!
Pura Vida!
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