Today, we
woke to rain, but it stopped by the afternoon. One of today’s tasks was to get
our change of address done on our driver’s licenses. We both had renewed ours
since the new rules went into effect for providing 3 forms of ID. (passport,
social security card and some document sent to you at your current address.)
So, when we went in today we just needed something to prove our address.
We found a
Driver’s License place that we could get appointments for the next day so we
drove to the middle of nowhere to do that. Greg had no problem, but my old
license didn’t have a star on it, despite the fact that I had provided all the
needed information last time I renewed, so I need to get my SS card out of the
safe deposit box and bring in my passport. So, I have an appointment in 2 days
to do that.
The second
task was to get my fingerprints redone for my FBI background check since the
last 2 sets were rejected. I have low ridge quality on my finger tips and it
looks like the tech just didn’t do a good job. So, today we went to 3 different
sheriff’s departments and 2 of them added a form saying these are the best
prints we can get due to my low ridge quality. We got those mailed off today
and hopefully the FBI will accept them. We can’t start the process for our
Pensionado Visas until we get that completed.
The other
thing we needed to do was to get our Place of Domicile letters notarized and
mailed back. We use a mail forwarding service that the State of Florida
recognizes as a place of domicile for people that don’t live in a conventional
house, like people that live on boats or in motor homes or people like us that
lived on a cruise ship for almost 4 months and have been living in hotels since
we sold our house before and after the cruise and soon will be residing in
Panama.
The mailing
service works pretty well. They scan all the mail and then based on the
envelope we can choose to have them open it and email us the content or have
them shred it. They will also forward any mail that we physically need. They
automatically destroy all the junk mail. It worked like a charm while we were
on the cruise and should work well in Panama as well.
So, that
pretty much killed the day. We switch hotels tomorrow as this one was just for
3 nights and hopefully the next Residence Inn will be nicer. This one in West
Palm isn’t one of the better ones we have stayed in. So, we spent the rest of
the day packing up.
Tomorrow we
will go to the safe deposit box and storage to drop off a bunch of cruise stuff
we won’t need for a while and pick up some other things we do need.
I have
started looking for rental places in 3 different areas in Panama. (Coronado,
Altos del Maria, El Valle) Tomorrow I will contact a few to see if we can set
something up for our arrival.
It’s now May
26 and we both got our drivers licenses done. We took the documents that need
an apostle done before we travel to Panama. We drove to Miami for the
Panamanian Consulate. They were able to apostle our Pension Award letter
proving we have the minimum amount required to apply for the Pensionado Visas
and Greg’s FBI background check. They couldn’t do our marriage license since it
is from Las Vegas and they can only apostle Florida documents. We have to send
that to Washington and have it done there. Still waiting on my FBI background
check as well.
We contacted
an international moving company called PTY Packers and we are awaiting an
estimate. They said they could probably pick up our boxes from storage at the
end of next week or early the week after. Once that is done we will be ready to
travel to Panama.
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