Do you have any idea how hard it is to got your papers done in Uruguay??? Well you don`t and especially if you are a Bosnian citizen, then things start to get complicated!
I dare to say that that my husband and I are the first Bosnian-Uruguayan couple to get married, in history of our own countries! (If there is anybody who can prove I am wrong, pleas contact me!!!!)
But being unique is nothing fun when it comes to paperwork. You can`t even imagine how many strange looks I have gotten just by mentioning where I am from, and people start to sweat when I tell them what I need them to do for me.
Since I am married now it is time for me to get residency,( right??), well among other things I need my birth certificate to be legalized from both countries, Bosnia and Uruguay, but the problem is that Uruguay does not do that. We have tried so many things and went to so many doors to ask what should we do, the answer is always ``go to the Uruguayan embassy in your country`` WELL THERE IS NO URUGUAYAN EMBASSY IN MY COUNTRY, AND THETE IS NO SINGLE BOSNIAN EMBASSY IN WHOLE SOUTH AMERICA!! What am I supposed to do now!!??
Some of the solutions they offered me were to go back to my country, we`ll I don`t think so!!!
Others told me I should go to Hungary, because there is Argentinian embassy that is in charge of Bosnian business in South America. That is time and money consuming and I am not sure weather they wouldn`t tell me they can`t do anything there either.
This thing did not even start yet and it is already complicated! Now we are trying to pull some strings and connections to some people in power ( I know, I know, but girl gotta do what girl gotta do). The other day I called some lady who is a friend of friend, and I am not sure if there is another friend in the middle of this, but the conversation was failure.
First of all I could not understand her well, because my Spanish is still at the beginners level, plus there were some technical words connected with the subject, the I am not sure weather she understood me when I was explaining what have we done so far with my birth certificate.
I have to let my husband do this stuff for me, right?? Isn`t that what husbands are for!?
He just tells me to chillax, but it is easy for him to say that since he has German passport and mine worths less than a dime!! I am still on tourist visa till December and I don`t want to be illegal in the county.
Anyway, I know this will be long and painful process, but I hope it ends up happily.
Wish me luck!!!