Hound Dog
May 18, 2010, 4:47 PM
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Re: [stevebrtx] New Immigration office in Chapala
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Had I, or Bob, wanted to elaborate on the experience of the day we certainly would have posted for public consumption.
So, if I may "edit" my original response to your question regarding my lunch with Bob: "It was enjoyable" - end of comment.
Agreed. Steve and Dawg had a most enjoyable lunch and plan to repeat the experience in the future. And, Pedro, I know this is tough for you to comprehend, but the restaurant we chose had actual doors and stuff like forks and knives and napkins plus indoor bathrooms. Unfortunately, lunch cost more than $50Pesos for two so you may have to pawn the hog in order to afford even one meal at a joint that nice.
As for the immigration issue, my darlin wife Vichil and I would never pay anyone to perform such simple tasks as that and we never have done so in ten years here. Just today we drove to Guadalajara to get Dawg a replacement Jalisco driver´s license after mine was lost in Chiapas. A piece of cake and cost me a total of $430 Pesos for a four year replacement license. The whole process took less than an hour. It just takes the simple moxie to do it rather than hire someone to lead you around by the nose. Next month we will go inmigrado with zero help from some "facilitator" and that gives us more pleasure than announcing we are simply too busy to perform such a simple task once a year - a task we will never have to perform again. We will also become Mexican citizens soon without using any facilitator. To each his own.
I should point out that neither one of us spoke any Spanish when we got here in 2001 and were still able to easily cope with our FM-3 and later FM-2 applications and renewals without paying anyone to help us. I say this not to brag but to give those of you new here the courage to face these issues and stop feeding this community af "facilitators" taking advantage of your naivete in a new land with foreign customs. Now, admittedly my wife now speaks good Spanish and even The Dawg can cope to some degree but if we could take care of this process the first few years we were here then so can you. This will especially be true if INM opens a Chapala office where, certainly, English speaking employees will be assigned. In fact, we have been told directly by INM employees that the Chapala office will be run by English speaking employees so there will be no need for extranjeros to employ facilitators to aid them in completing the visa process.
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on May 18, 2010, 5:32 PM)
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