Got my Romanian birth cert

I actually got my birth cert last month in January, but I haven't posted for a while since I've moved twice internationally in two months. In January I moved from Peru to the US where I spent about a month with my family and dragged my massive suitcase, big backpack, and carry-on with me. And then in February I moved to Korea, and dragged the same stuff with me minus some paperwork like tax stuff and photo albums, with me.

Here's what happened in January 2010
Ok, so good news. Kind of. The counsel got back to Peru so I applied and got my Romanian birth cert! Yea! So now, I need to register my marriage. Of course, the embassy was closed for another couple of weeks due to updating their computer system. Now they're open and I've left Peru. I'm moving back to Korea. I'm a bit wary about the CNP. There is none. When I asked the counsel he said it wasn't important.

So just great. I have, however, gotten an official translation of my marriage cert by a translator in Romania.

Two things have to be done.
1. Register my marriage. (in order to do that, I need a valid Ro passport)
2. Get a Romanian passport (in order to do that, I need to have my marriage cert registered)

Am I the only one that sees the illogical situation? It's a Catch-22.

I've contact my lawyer, who says he will see what he can do. Right now, I'm busy with moving back to Korea and my new job and he's busy as well, so we're just going to wait until summer and take it from there.

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Applying for my birth cert

I haven't posted for a while since I've moved twice internationally in two months. In January I moved from Peru to the US where I spent about a month with my family and dragged my massive suitcase, big backpack, and carry-on with me. And then in February I moved to Korea, and dragged the same stuff with me minus some paperwork like tax stuff and photo albums, with me.

Here's what happened in December 2009.

I'm going to apply for my Romanian birth cert. I need to fill out three forms in Romanian.

1. Form stating I want to be registered as a Romanian and that there's no reason why I shouldn't and that everything is true.
2. Information about my birth certificate with attached birth certificate.
3. Form stating that I agree with everything and want to be registered as a Romanian.

I had to show my apostillised US birth cert and my mom's original birth cert. I also had to pay a total of $200, which covered the registration fee and the translation fee.

I should hear back from them in a couple weeks.

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Moving to Korea again

This time for good I hope! I'd like to start a family there. I'll spend a month in the US and then go to Korea to start working March 1st. My husband should be joining me in June.

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Became Peruvian and putting Romanian citizenship on hold

Just wanted to let people know that my quest to get citizenship has been temporarily put on hold. We both need a break.

I got Peruvian citizenship through marriage, took 3 months of running around to various govt offices and they gave me another last name. So I'm frantically running all over the place trying to change my name on our flat and car so that we can sell them. Ironically, I got Peruvian citizenship and still don't have Romanian. We thought it'd be so easy since my mom was born there.

There were a couple reasons that I became Peruvian. First and foremost, I figured that Peru has taken so much away from me, the least it could do is give me citizenship. Another reason was because I was sick of getting all the documents needed to renew my residency and pay the foreigner tax and go to immigration 3 or 4 times a year. Lastly, my husband and I have property there and I'd like to protect it. If something happens to my husband, I figure it'd be easier to handle the paperwork if I were Peruvian.

I'm hoping to resume paperwork for Romania in August. I am will fight this for what it's worth. I've put kids on hold in the hopes of getting citizenship.

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Sworn declarations

My lawyer wants my grandmother to sign some documents or have my mother declare that she's incompetant and can't sign. My mom doesn't want to do either, so that puts a kink in things.

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