More Paperwork Done

Wednesday July 30

We went to meet Judith so we can get the legal papers done for Jayne’s visa and for me getting a new ID (when you get married you have to get another one that says you are married).

First we went to the police station where you can get a police check. This is a police check just for Ecuador but you need one done. This is stupid as whether you have something on your record or not you still get a new ID.

Then we went to a clinic where Jayne can get a health check. The one we went to first was where I got mine done but we were told that it’s only opened from 8am to 9.30am! However, Jayne had a list of addresses where you can get this done, so we went to one she had on the list. This one is opened 24 hours a day.

They were told that it’s for a visa entry and the guy said it would be $19. However, on the web site that Jayne got the info from it said $10 (do we smell a rip off here?). Then we went into the hospital – which is in the same building – and she had to take different kinds of tests. Jayne already had her urine and feces samples with her and she gave that to them. Then off to other tests. I had waited one hour before all of this was done.

We were told that we had to come back in 30 minutes for the results.

All the tests proved negative – meaning that Jayne is in good health. It’s just that her blood pressure is low. When we went to pay, the total cost $60 plus!

I told Jayne why she took all the tests when what was only required was pee, poop and blood samples. She thought that everything was needed. Like I said, I wasn’t with her in the examining rooms but was sitting in the waiting area.

It looks like another rip-off by people here – this time the hospital is responsible.

Every day we have to go to Quito for some reason. It’s like going to work. God forbid that people would have to go to work as they would have to take off (most of what has to be done the person personally has to come in to one of the government offices).

What we still have to do is:

to go to the immigration office (for Craig’s paperwork)
go to my lawyers office with all the paperwork that we collected
go to a travel agency to book a flight to Columbia (for Jayne to get her visa)

(I hope that there is a flight that’s not full, as it is the summer time.)