While attempting to set up an Irish bank account, I remembered another crucial piece of official documentation I needed but had completely forgotten about: the PPS (Personal Public Service) number. This is akin to the American Social Security number, and like a SSN, you need one in order to do most things having to do [...]
After the multi-year, $1,000+ madness involved in getting an American green card (permission to live and work in the States essentially indefinitely), I had a difficult time accepting that the analogous process in Ireland would be so much simpler as to create a divide by zero error while comparing the two. I could not wrap [...]
I’ve neglected my corner of the blog so long I’m surprised there aren’t colonies of spiders and layers of cobwebs blocking my way in. The sad truth of the past year is that I’ve had nothing I wanted to share with the Internets: grim accounts of thesis writing, power struggles with my PhD advisor and [...]
The green card meeting
Went pretty well, all things told.
Wand’rer stays, we think.
While I’ve always had an opinion on what makes an “American” (in the “citizen of the United States” sense, not the “living on one of the American continents” sense), it’s only in the past ten years that opinion has really crystallized into something I will pick fights over. Becoming a citizen is a pretty big [...]