What a wild goose chase!
Someone told me it's easier now with L1
When I did this before, everything was done in class, fingerprints, passport photos, we filled out all the paperwork, and all I had to do was send it in.
Now, I went to class. Then I went home and filled out the online app. and scheduled L1. My printer barely works, I have to jam paper into it as it's trying to feed or it won't pick it up out of the tray, then it
might print. Got the Fast Pass printed. (And it somehow came out with my name rearranged, middle name, then last name, then first name.) The very earliest I could schedule an appointment was Tuesday at 9:00. The closest place to get in Tuesday at 9:00 was in Seminole, about 20 miles away. Ok, no problem, there's never anything in this town. The DPS site showed me one address for L1 in Seminole. The L1 website lists a different address. There's only one location. One of the addresses is completely wrong. Got the fingerprints done. (Skipping over part of the adventure because the post just gets too long, but there was more there.) I was under the impression they did passport photos at L1. Nope. They said go to the post office. Guy at the post office tells me that the one person who does passport pics won't be there until tomorrow. I said I'm headed back to Denver City, so I'll get them there. He told me he doesn't think they do them at the post office in Denver City. I ask where's the next closest place. (I took off work just to run to Seminole and back, not all over the country.) He said the courthouse in Plains, which is about 15 miles the other side of Denver City. So I go there and get the photos taken. All I was missing was the CHL-6 form for the passport photo and signature. I didn't know what it was. The passport lady at the courthouse didn't know either. I went to my storage unit in Denver City and dug out the packet from when I took the class in 2008 thinking maybe the correct card is in there. Found what I thought I was looking for, but it's not really the right thing. Called DPS and was told I could download it from their website. More fighting with my printer. Got it. Off to the post office in Denver City to mail it all.
Done, done, and done. Yeah, that was easy.
Status change today. There is life in Austin.
I hope mine looks like that tomorrow morning......
