Γύροι, οδηγοί και διακοπές της Τζαμάικας

Ηνάκτησα το διαβατήριό μου το 1999 όταν θέλησα να πάρω το πρώτο ταξίδι μου Τζαμάικα. Η σύζυγός μου Elise υπέβαλε αίτηση για το ένα συγχρόνως αλλά αμφισβητήθηκε ένα διαβατήριο επειδή έχει τι καλείται καθυστερημένο πιστοποιητικό γέννησης. Γεννήθηκε στο σπίτι το 1980 και οι γονείς της δεν την πήραν για να καταγράψουν τη γέννησή της. Η σύζυγός μου έλαβε πραγματικά το πρώτο πιστοποιητικό γέννησής της το 1997 όταν ήταν 17 και ακριβώς πριν από το γάμο μας το 1998.

Το πιστοποιητικό γέννησης της Φλώριδάς της προμηθεύτηκε τη λέξη «καθυστερημένη» σφραγισμένος σε το και αυτό είναι η πηγή όλων των προβλημάτων μας. Δεν έχει χρειαστεί ένα διαβατήριο πάλι μέχρι τώρα και ακριβώς δύο εβδομάδες πίσω για ένα νέο διαβατήριο για με και ΕΝΑΝΤΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΡΕΜΒΟΛΉΣ ΠΑΡΑΣΊΤΩΝ και ένα πρώτο διαβατήριο φορά για Elise και Robby. Τα κατσίκια και έλαβα τα διαβατήριά μας αλλά Elise έλαβε μια επιστολή από την αντιπροσωπεία διαβατηρίων του Μαϊάμι που δηλώνει ότι είναι ανίκανη να αποδείξει την αμερικανική υπηκοότητά της λόγω των καθυστερημένων αρχείων γέννησης. Η επιστολή απαριθμεί τους πολλαπλάσιους λόγους για τους οποίους η αίτησή της μπορεί να είχε αμφισβητηθεί και μοναδική που μπορεί να ισχύσει για την είναι ότι το πιστοποιητικό γέννησής της δεν δείχνει μια εγγραφή ή μια ημερομηνία αρχείων μέσα σε ένα έτος από γέννησή της.

Βρισκόμαστε αντιμέτωποι τώρα με να ανακαλύψουμε τα μέλη της οικογένειάς της έτσι ώστε μπορούν να συμπληρώσουν τις πρόσθετες μορφές για να βεβαιώσουν στο γεγονός που γεννήθηκε εδώ στην Αμερική όπως λέει. Η μορφή ds-10 για το υπουργείο εξωτερικών είναι η ένορκη κατάθεση γέννησης που πρέπει να έχει υπογράψει και τώρα. Εάν έχετε ένα καθυστερημένο αρχείο γέννησης κατόπιν να πάρει τη γραφική εργασία σας αρχικά έτσι δεν βρίσκεστε αντιμέτωπος με αυτά τα ζητήματα.

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I have been thinking about our first few days or weeks in Jamaica and some of the things I want to do when we arrive on the island. I would like to spend some time checking out local attractions and I am planning a few day trips for our first week in JA. Finding things to do in Jamaica is easy enough but I want to make certain we catch some of the big attractions early on. I found Iexplore.com offers a great write up on Jamaican attractions and their listings for things to do in Jamaica has been helpful in my planning.

Mayfields Falls in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica West Indies

The first month or more of our trip will be in the Negril area and I want to visit as many of the natural attractions as we can. I have not made it to many of the falls besides Dunns River and I have never been on a river raft ride either so I think a stop at MayFields Falls is a definite. We may even consider spending the night and making a two day trip of this one. Mayfields Falls has been suggested to me as a great outing by one prospective guide I am communicating with in Jamaica. I think we may have need to hire someone to pick us up at the airport and deliver us to our first place to stay. I also think I may want this person to give us a couple days tour of the area in order to let the family see all the things around us. We may also take a trip over to YS Falls which is said to be a bit nicer but kinda far from Negril.

Natural Pool at YS Falls in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica W.I.

Of course we’ll be spending lots of time at the beach in Negril but we’ll have to be careful about that. It’s been a few years since we’ve lived by the ocean and I think we’ll need to get used to the sun again before we can handle a full day at the beach. The sun here in Florida can be brutal but it does not compare to the summers in Jamaica on the beach. You can feel it cooking you in JA and the kids won’t be able to handle that for long at all. We’ll need to plan some daytime activities and try to plan our beach playtime during the later afternoon hours when things aren’t as bad. If you’re planning a trip to Jamaica and need some ideas for things to do outside your resort check out this page.

Jamaica Overview | Jamaica Tour Guide | iExplore.com

Jamaica was inhabited by Arawak Indians prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Although Columbus was in the habit of declaring that each new island he chanced upon was more beautiful than the last, he seems to have maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the beauty of Jamaica.

A few years later, it was formally colonized by the Spanish whose rule lasted until 1655. They were displaced by the British who turned Jamaica into the most important of the British Caribbean slaving colonies. Within 100 years, virtually the whole island had been divided up into large plantations owned by absentee landlords and worked by forced labor imported from West Africa.

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I’ve been planning a long term trip to Jamaica for quite some time now and although it has been less than serious I am at least I’m familiar with what we want and need for a comfortable experience. I myself have been to Jamaica on two other occasions and my family will be traveling for the first time. I’m very excited about my return trip but I really want to do some planning this go around. We’ll be traveling with children and I want to be certain we get about the island smoothly. I would really hate for a bad start to ruin our vacation so I’m looking at where to start first of course.

With the time I’ve spent in Jamaica and my idea of what we’re looking for I think someplace close to Negril would be my best choice for a first home or apartment to rent. I think our first place should be a nice one so we integrate into Jamaica as easily as possible. Right now we’re considering an apartment rental somewhere near the Negril beach area and I think we would hopefully be able to settle into a more permanent place during our first month in. I’m hopeful we’ll be able to find a better place to stay after we arrive because the sources available online are pretty pitiful.

There are a number of Jamaican websites online but not much for apartment searches. In the past I have used sites like Jamaicans.com and Everytingjamaican.com for general travel and island information. Jamaicans.com is possibly the best resource for general information on Jamaica and the Jamaican people. The Jamaicans.com forums has a topic and expert on just about everything Jamaican and you can have your questions answered by an expert rather easily by joining in the conversations with them.

Most of the websites about Jamaica are about vacationing in Jamaica and while much of this information is useful to us we’re looking for more specific info on moving to Jamaica and the steps necessary to do so legally. We may spend some time in a hotel but we’re probably looking for a more long term rental space and the typical room search in Jamaica isn’t going to do us much good. Searching for “Jamaica real estate” brings us sites such as Sangsters Realty which isn’t the prettiest site on the net but it does have quite an extensive selection of Jamaican real estate. Coldwell Banker also has a great site for Jamaican realty and one can find anything from multi acre farm estates to single family homes for sale or rental apartments throughout the island. Both of these sitews seem to have a better selection of properties listed then the official Jamaican Realtors website at RealtorsJamaica.com does. Using a combination of all these sites helps you get a better understanding of the Jamaican rel estate market but I do believe there is much more to things than what we can find online. It seems to me a great need for smaller local property listings in areas surrounding the major cities in Jamaica. Many of the properties listed are expensive all inclusive type vacation rentals and finding properties to rent for long term use is going to be easier for us using the Jamaican newspaper website at Jamaica-Gleaner.com. I’ve been able to get a better idea of living costs from the local news site then anything else. It’s been a hard year for the tourist season and living in Jamaica should actually be cheaper for us then expected due to the lack of visitors to the island thus far this year.

Of course finding a place to live is only one part in relocating to Jamaica and securing the proper documents and travel permits is probably the most important thing we need to do first. I have already sent out applications for passports for everyone and I am having mine renewed as well. It’s got 2 years left but I think it’s best we all have fresh documents and photographs. The US Passport agency is running behind schedule because of the new travel rules and passports are taking up to 10 weeks to deliver now. I was forced to pay to have ours processed within two weeks because of my lack of planning. I should have taken care of those last year. I think the best resource I have found for general information on actual moving to Jamaica procedures has got to be the EscpapeArtist.com pages on Jamaica. This site is huge and has loads of great articles on living abroad and their information on moving to Jamaica is great.

Finding travel arrangements was pretty simple for us as we live in Florida and Air Jamaica has flights from Fort Lauderdale three times daily. Their Specials Page offers great rates on air travel to Jamaica and we’re going to be traveling at about $169 each for round trip tickets from June 1 to Dec 10. I considered other forms of transport including taking a boat or cruise ship over to avoid the need for passports but in the end it was easier to fly into Mobay and take a cab to our destination city after we land. I think the kids will enjoy the airplane ride although AJ may find it noisy. I will have to get him some ear plugs for certain.

I have decided that in order to enjoy our first month in Jamaica and to ease the transition from America we shall spend our first month in Negil on the beach somewhere. We’re going to start it out like a vacation and ease into Jamaican life. I searched the web for “negril apartments” and ended up with a rather poor selection of available long term rentals. Realizing that the local economy and the tourist season this winter was weak I decided we should contact some of the nicer places to rent on the beach and ask if they were offering a discounted rate for long term rentals. We are currently looking at a studio apartment directly on Negril beach that rents for $79 per evening with a full kitchen and bath. The current offer is $800 for a full month and I think we might just take that. I’ll keep you posted on those developments and more later.

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