Today's Environmentalists Are Really Luddites

[Isaac]

My wife had a US passport for 30 years before she found out she was not a citizen.

I can't let that go without asking what's the story there? You may not want to tell me and that's fine, but I have to ask - too curious

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I'm really surprised that that had such an effect. I always thought fingerprints were permanent

So, apparently, are wrinkles.

 

[moke123]

I can't let that go without asking what's the story there? You may not want to tell me and that's fine, but I have to ask - too curious

Her parents came to the US from Germany by boat. When the boat pulled into NJ my mother in law went into labor with my wife's older sister. She had the baby and when they came back to the dock the boat was gone and all their belongings were on the dock. A couple years later my MIL was pregnant with my wife and went back to Germany to visit her mother and My wife was born in Germany. Years later when the in-laws became citizens they forgot to put her down on their paperwork, as her sister was a citizen by birthright. Through the years the kids had some kind of joint passport and when in their teens they each got their own passports. It wasn't until we got married and she went to change her social security card they asked for her birth certificate which was in German and they informed her she was not a citizen. It took us several years to get her citizenship straightened out.