Passport

I know this guy, lets call him Jim. Anyway, Jim is a divorced man paying alimony to an ex-wife for about 3 or 4 years. Jim finds out that the ex has hooked up with this guy and together have bought a nice house in Vernon, BC. Jim is living in a rooming house for a number of reasons, one being to cut costs to pay alimony. Jim begins to negotiate a reduction in the alimony. This is rejected out of hand. Next Jim petitions the court to have the alimony reduced or better yet stopped. The ex reports to the BC family maintenance that Jim is in arrears on alimony payments. BC Family maintenance office contacts the Federal government to have them recall Jim's passport. In the meantime Jim, though the courts in Ontario, proves he is not in arrears. Too late the passport is revoked. Jim goes to the federal office in town and gets an application for a passport renewal. Jim did this only a year ago. Fill out the form, enclose old passport, mail. Soon you get new passport. Sometimes picture required. This however turns out not to be the right approach. Passport denied. How can it be denied? Jim had a perfectly good passport just renew it. No, Jim needs  to start from scratch and apply for a new passport. Jim does not take this well. The new application is much more trying. They need a birth certificate. Jim has one, good. They need pictures, OK, they need a number of personal guarantees, a nuisance but doable. So off goes the application. Passport denied. Birth certificate has torn corner and is not acceptable. Get new birth certificate and reapply. So now Jim has another dreaded form to fill out to get a birth certificate. This application works on the first try so Jim gets back to the passport application. When completing the application there is a signature box with a green border with instructions that the signature must be completely inside the box. Now Jim is a little dyslexic so of course the signature drifts outside the border. Jim, seeing that there is still lots of room in the box signs again but this time too the signature drifts outside the box. Finlay with great concentration Jim signs and it is well within the box. Small but still within the box. Then having fulfilled all the criteria Jim sent off the application. And surprisingly the application was again denied. They enclosed, understanding Jim's aversion to forms, a card about one third the size of a sheet of letter paper. The card had a green border around it. Jim laughed a lot when I got this. These guys were good. So to continue the joke, I mean the dialog, Jim signed the large green bordered box with the tiniest signature, right in the middle of the box. There was nothing but white space around the signature. The passport Jim received has a very small, almost unreadable signature. Its to funny to be real.