We leave for Paris via Euro star on Sunday and consequently spent most of today in London in the French embassy, we had to wait 6 weeks for this appointment slot.
We joked on the way in that we would NOT mention
a) That Stephen needs a separate visa for each of his personalities
b) That Sophie has two hearts, slime for blood and is actually an alien (as in out of this world)
c) The tragic reversal French socialism with the recent election results.
Little did we know, none of this would be our undoing.
It was hell.
It turns out that birth certificates we have for the three children are "abridged" certificates IE. they are missing the parents names.
Stephen and I dashed to the South African High Commission - and yeah they can provide the full birth certificates - we just have to wait 4 months.
Result no visa for kids.
These birth certificates have in the past been used for visas to the USA (multiple times), the Netherlands and UK but they now NOT good enough for the French.
So we have three children with the same last name, we have their passports, their abridged birth certificates, they even look a little like us, they will testify that we are their real parents but this is just not good enough.
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