Today, after sending in my passport application for a trip to Paris, I got a letter from the state department saying despite them having my original birth certificate, I don't exist. Upon calling them, I was told that it only proves I'm a citizen, not that I exist. I pay taxes and have a mortgage. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after 3 months of job hunting, I finally got a job. But now my birth certificate and social security card are somehow lost, and I can't start until I let them see a copy. FML
Today, because of my mom going on a drunken adventure, I now have a FBI file. I'm Canadian and my birth certificate proves I wasn't even alive when she pulled this stuff. FML
Today, I realized that I'm on the top of not having my drivers license/ state ID (I was submitting my taxes and needed it) I also threw away my brand new passport because I thought it was trash in my boyfriends car. FML
Today, I found out that my passport expired two days ago, two days before my first vacation abroad. I only found out when the airline employee scanned it at check-in, looked at me with sympathy, and said, "I don't think you're going anywhere today." My friends are currently posting beach photos while I'm filling out passport renewal forms. FML
Today, I went to the bank to open an account. It took hours for them to tell me that I needed my driver's license, passport, and residency paper. I returned with the documents. They then said that they couldn't help me. FML
Today, I found out that I have been declared dead by my credit card company in England because I haven't used it since I moved to Thailand last year. I will need three witnesses to convince them that I'm actually alive. FML
Today, I had to get out my birth certificate to prove to my dad that today is my birthday. This has happened before. FML
Today, I learned my application for resuming my citizenship in my home country (Australia) after being abroad for almost 12 years is being denied based on bureaucratic bullshit, and I'm going to be sent away to a country (USA), where I have no family or support, to be homeless and without the above. FML
Today, I went to go get my driver's license, only to be told that I need a copy of my birth certificate. In order to get the copy of my birth certificate, I need a driver's license or my passport. In order to get a passport, I need a copy of my birth certificate or a drivers license. I have none. FML
Today, the passport office informed me I won't get my passport in time to go on holidays. However, they took the money for the passport out of my account 2 months ago, causing me to go overdrawn, and not pay my travel insurance. The same insurance I needed to get the cost of the holiday back. FML
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Top comments
gracehi 33
Apparently your existence has been shut down too.
Kheasus 8
well that's one way to be off the grid...
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Comments (135)
FrankHotpants 31
Stop paying bills for a while and just give them the same excuse. Nope, not paying that I don't exist and you can't prove it (apparently).
caralily 10
This happened to one of my friends when he was a kid and needed a passport to move with his family to Germany. The paperwork about his birth had not been filed correctly by the state and so his parents had to bring him before a judge to prove his existence.
TheCerealKiller 24
Well. Obviously you're a ripple in the matrix that does not compute with the system.
senseoffender 2
How can u be a citizen but bit exist??? Lol our government sucks
Huddisher 10
Makes sense... You're a citizen, but yet... you don't exist.
Hutch1965 6
So, you're one of those non-existant citizens that the GOP talks about when they are passing all of those voter ID laws.
rougeunicorn03 17
That makes no sense whatsoever.
lolita88_fml 27
That's really strange...
123_omg 19
I thought passport applications were on delay due to the government shutdown anyway. But that sucks that you apparently don't exist...wtf?
jjacci 12
Typical, you exist when they want money from you but not when you want something.
Heartx144 4
Ahahaha so true. All our government does is take but barely give