Category: General

Finally some good news! After TOO MUCH WAIT, I’ve finally received the money from the 2019 tax declaration. It’s a lot! Just enough to pay my taxes for 2022, which I finished filing this weekend… sigh. I just hope now they process 2020 and 2021 swiftly…

We went to Bern to apply for Mei-Lin’s police records from the Japanese Embassy. The whole process went surprisingly… as planned. The costs for Mei-Lin’s application for Italian nationality is so updated: Cost for fingerprint acquisition (old-style, with ink and all the shit) at Bern Cantonal Police Station: 65 CHF Return stamps for the envelope:… Continue reading Mei-Lin’s Italian Nationality Expense Tracking #2

Because I don’t want life to be boring, it’s also time for a little side quest: the renewal of my Taiwan Gold Card. I’m not gonna spend a lot of time here explaining what this Gold Card is and how it works, but in a nutshell: it’s a combined residence permit + working visa for… Continue reading Side Quest: Gold Card Renewal

It’s time to keep track also of the ridiculous costs for the Swiss Family Book, mainly documentation from Penelope’s side. Since we have already accounted for our first botched attempt under Serse’s expense tracking, I’m not gonna include it here. However, so far we have: Penelope’s first (botched) birth certificate requested from Taileng’s hospital: 100… Continue reading Swiss Family Book Expense Tracking #1

It’s also time to start keeping track of the costs for Mei’Lin’s application for Italian nationality. So far this limits to: Cost for the language exam: 275 CHF Total: 275 CHF.

A couple of days ago I managed to go AGAIN through the Asylum’s Telephonic Hades System and I got some clarifications regarding Mei-Lin’s quest for Italian citizenship. Remember we need Mei-Lin’s birth certificate and police records from Taiwan and Japan. Regarding her birth certificate from Taiwan, the procedure is a bit different from the usual… Continue reading Mei-Lin’s Italian Citizenship Application Checklist

Since Satan is clearly fucking with us, it’s time to go to war. This is the email I sent today: Hello Satan, we will come in person to Taiwan in October to declare a Holy War on you take the matter on our hands. In order to smoothen the process, I kindly ask you to… Continue reading Battle Plan For Penelope’s Family Book

A couple of quick updates. First, Satan has replied. More or less like this: Most delightfully amusing peasant, That’s so cute of you to think that the same original document could be reused for different applications. Oh, and we’re SO sorry to request both Chinese and English versions, but you know, new rules… Wishing you… Continue reading Penelope’s Quest For The Family Book: Phail #3 And Mei-Lin’s Italian Citizenship Application

I am about to scream. You might remember the ordeal we started when requesting the Swiss Family Grimoire Book. You might also remember that we phailed badly the first (well, actually second) attempt – it’s a miracle we didn’t mess up anything so far, so no big complaints there. So, we had to beg Mei-Lin’s… Continue reading Penelope’s Quest For The Family Book: Phail #2

Oh this is so AYFKM, but it was basically our mistake. Mei-Lin’s relative in Taileng went through the ordeal of requesting Penelope’s birth certificate for the Swiss Family Book, and they sent everything to Taipei. I receive an email: Dear idiot, as it was clearly written on the letter you received, we do not need… Continue reading Penelope’s Quest For The Family Book: Phail #1