Victoria is a Citizen

Well it took long enough, but the paperwork finally went through and we had our date in Brooklyn Family Court. Victoria’s name change is official, she is a citizen, she will have a New York birth certificate (or at least the equivalent – if we lose it we contact Albany not Guatemala) and she can get a US Passport. She can’t be president (insert Birther movement joke here) but that’s a lousy job anyway.

The event was quite anti-climactic. With the paperwork done, the court appearance basically consists of the court clerk asking us if that really is our signature on all the documents while the judge looks on.

But it being family court, they allow photographs and the judge gives out lollipops…