ivanidea

The US Passport authority.

I provided my brand new and pristine certificate of naturalization, and they returned it with a receipt stapled to it, there are also 3 more staple holes around the edges. Not only that, the certificate is showing signs of water damage, which judging by the pristine envelope, must have occurred whilst they were processing my application.

Whilst the certificate is not physically damaged, and should still be usable, it is annoying that they didn't take good care of it.

Just need to take it to get get my SS status updated, then it can be locked away. At least I took a copy of, which I can frame and display on my wall of certificates.

Thank you for allowing me to rant and get it out of my system. Time to move on and forget about it, and enjoy being a citizen.

Rete

Sorry for their carelessness. Jim's was treated kindly and is properly mounted and hung on the wall along with the US Flag which was flown over the Capitol Building in his name.

RICH

Please elaborate about the flag!
OP I am happy to hear that is the worst thing you are concerned about in these tmes 😜

civilservant

Now that you have a US PP, you don't really need it anyway as long as you don't a) lose the passport and b) keep it renewed.

ivanidea

Just to add that my application was dealt by Miami, FL. Maybe I was just unlucky, or the Miami center was careless.

On the plus side, it took 5 weeks to get my (expediated) passport.

tht

Mine had 2 staple holes in 1 corner as well. I don’t think the passport office is as worried about it as we might be. The letter from the white-house and the flag flag the senator gave me are still in pristine condition in the fire safe, but I don’t think the wife would let me display the letter because it’s signed by the supreme leader in 2019.... add that to the list of rights a US citizen has that are subject to her superior jurisdiction at home.

steph0scope

Under the current leader you don’t even get a letter from the White House.

tht

maybe it just slipped his mind... Blumenthal was there in person to try and acquire new voters...

TimFountain

I found it ironic is that my certificate has a big red stamp on it that says it's against the law to photo or copy the certificate. The first piece of advise I was given at the ceremony was to make copies to keep in a safe place and keep a photo on your phone.....

S Folinsky

Reread the certificate. The prohibition is to copy for unlawful purpose. Decades ago, it was a flat prohibition, but no longer.