Today Christian and Hannah finally became citizens of a country. When they were born, we recieved a "notice of live birth" confirming they were born but their names were not there. They did not exit for legal purposes and I wasn't very comfortable with that idea.
Nohemi, our helper and I took the twins to the Office of Immigration to register. I was pleasently surprised when they attended to us very fast and in less than 30 minutes we had their Singporean birth certificate. Like everything else here, the service was superb and efficient. What a different with public offices in Mexico!
We then went to the American embassy to get their passports and social security numbers. Even though they were born in here, they do not have the right to Singaporean citizenship. At least a parent has to be a citizen and we obvioulsy are not. We stayed at the American embassy for about an hour waiting to speak with the person that would finalize the process. At the end it was done and we will have their US passports in two weeks.
I feel much better now since they now have a country. I guess in the future it may be confusing for them to tell where they are from: They were born in Singapore, are US Citizens and their parents are Mexican.
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