Passport required

[happy daze john in oz]

AUSTRALIAN LETTER - I think the sender mighthave been upset!

This is an actual letter sent to the DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) Immigration Minister. The Government tried desperately to censure the author, but got nowhere because every legal person who read it couldn’t stop laughing !



Dear Mr Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.

How is it that K-Mart has my address and telephone number, and knows that I bought a television set and golf clubs and condoms from them back in 1997, and yet the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date ?

For Christ’s sake, do you guys do this by hand ?

My birth date you have in my Medicare information, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 40 years.

It is also on my driver's licence, on the last eight passports I've ever had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off planes over the past 30 years.

It's also on all those insufferable census forms that I've filled out every 5 years since 1966.

Also... would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Audrey, my father's name is Jack, and I'd be absolutely bloody astounded if that ever changed between now and when I drop dead !!!

****! What do you people do with all this information we keep having to provide?

I apologize, Mr. Minister. But I'm really pissed off this morning.

Between you and me, I've had enough of all this bullshit!

You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my bloody address!

What the hell is going on with your mob? Have you got a gang of mindless Neanderthal arseholes working there!

And another thing, look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I can't even grow a beard for God's sakes. I just want to go to New Zealand and see my new granddaughter. (Yes, my son interbred with a Kiwi girl).

And would someone please tell me, why would you give a **** whether or not I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? In the unlikely event I ever got the urge to do something weird to a sheep or a horse, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other side of Sydney , and get another bloody copy of my birth certificate - and to part with another $80 for the privilege of accessing MY OWN INFORMATION!

Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot, to assist in the issuance of a new passport on the same day?

Nooooo, that'd be too bloody easy and makes far too much sense.

You would much prefer to have us running all over the bloody place like chickens with our heads cut off, and then having to find some 'high-society' wanker to confirm that it's really me in the goddamn photo! You know the photo... the one where we're not allowed to smile?...you bloody morons.

Signed - An Irate Australian Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture, and getting someone in 'high-society' to confirm that it's me?

Well, my family has been in this country since before 1820! In 1856, one of my forefathers took up arms with Peter Lalor. (You do remember the Eureka Stockade!)

I have also served in both the CMF and regular Army for something over 30 years (I went to Vietnam in 1967), and still have high security clearances. I'm also a personal friend of the president of the RSL...Lt General Peter Cosgrove sends me a Christmas card each year.

However, your rules require that I have to get someone "important" to verify who I am; you know...someone like my doctor - WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BLOODY PAKISTAN!...a country where they either assassinate or hang their ex-Prime Ministers - and are suspended from
the Commonwealth and United Nations for not having the "right sort of government"..

You are all pen-pushing paper-shuffling bloody idiots!

[Doc Vernon]

Bleedin Heck! He was P----d off! LOL

But yes some of these things can really get under ones skin at times/

Like the Program they had on TV , about an Elderly Lady who is much Alive and well , getting Letters about her Death! Did not actually watch it (Should have ) but just by the short News Clip, it seemed really ridiculas!
Cheers


Was Aired on A Current Affair on the 14th September 2021

[Rodney Mills]

Buoy! I'd love to have this guy come to dinner, what a card. On second thoughts, I'd love to go to his place for dinner. I hate to cook.

Signed: ex-Executive Chef

[unavaughan]

I came across this thread and noticed that it's a couple of years old. Nevertheless, I couldn't help but relate to the frustrations you expressed regarding passport renewal. It's funny how some bureaucratic processes can be so puzzling and cumbersome.
It's true that in this digital age, we often wonder why the government needs to repeatedly ask for basic information when various companies seem to have it readily available. It can be quite perplexing and leave us scratching our heads.
Also, check out https://fakeyourdrank.com/state/Texas-fake-id. It's always best to follow the proper channels and comply with legal requirements.

[happy daze john in oz]

Times have changed now here in Oz.

Go to the Post office to have your photo taken fill in the form and pay,
Not any more.

Now all on line including a photo selfie.
If you alredy have one easy, but if your first then you need to apply about six months before you need it.

Our Public Servants are still at home, we are told they are working from there, maybe, but the system they use does not work at all.

But if you pay an additional $230 up front, a miracle happens, your new passport, cost normally about $280, arrives within five days.