We finally have the document from the Indonesian embassy...we were there at 9 am and were the only people at the consular desk. Out of the Indonesian embassy by 9-15 and at the MOFA by 9-45 am.
We were told that the MOFA was open today and that we could get translations up there too...
Arrived there by taxi ... cost of 45 + 10 baht in toll fees and cost of 183 baht taxi fare.
MOFA closed. Seurity guy was great though. He got someone to come and take us to get the translations done... a cost of 800baht in total for the 2 documents.
Part of me thinks that it was a bit pricey - however we are ready to go back to MOFA at 8-00 am on Monday and get straight on with that part of the processing.
So now its time to kick back a bit and relax.
"A pint of Magner's?" ...
I don't mind if I do
I got married yesterday- that was not the end of the process by a long way ... hahahaha
Trust me, this has been an endurance test... we almost got divorced the morning after the wedding
The marriage certificate had to be translated to English, then it and the translations had to be legalised and that involved a trip to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a good hour's taxi ride from the hotel- it opens at 8am, to get the express (one day service- at double the charge per document) one has to be there and be in process before 12:00 midday. We arrived at 7am and there were already 60 people waiting, luckily not all for the same dept. We were number 16 in the queue for what we needed.
What made things a bit complex for us was that I also needed to get my SosBud visa application in at the Indonesian Embassy on the same morning, (1 more hour's taxi ride away).
This was attempted by leaving the documents at the MOFA (with a collection time of 12:00 midday).
Hotfooting it down to the embassy submitting the visa application and going back to MOFA.
The visa submitted on Tuesday morning will be ready on Thursday afternoon- yey!!! The SosBud bit was the easy bit.
I have to say our marriage certificates are rather beautiful in pretty colours. Not at all like many I have seen from other countries. Like this :