Just for completeness – and who doesn’t like a little completeness – I thought I should wrap up my thread from earlier in the year about having to apply for a new Permanent Resident card (documented here and here). Well – I finally have it – and here it is:
You will notice that I have intentionally blurred some of the detail for security reasons. My face – on the other hand – usually looks like that first thing in the morning!
This is the old and now redundant card – strangely suffering from a similar lack of focus.
It struck me – as I was manipulating these images – that there is perhaps something a little perverse in having a Permanent Resident Card that must be renewed every five years.
That seems to be a whole new definition of ‘permanent’.
The instructions that came with the new card dictated that the old one should be destroyed. Naturally I did as I was directed: herewith the proof:
Hmmm! I think one of my projects for 2021 must be to try to get my citizenship sorted out.
Onward and upward!
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