mark772

Good morning and Happy Holidays

Can you please visit this link and tell me what can be done on why our government has denied our disabled, people who can not work and have fallen behind on their child support their right to travel. It's not our fault we became disabled. I stopped what police called a possible rape (since the women were too afraid to talk) and I suffered a fractured skull. Now I can't work, I soon won't even be able to go to Canada which is only 5 minutes away. I really hope you have something to say, scream if you like at our government, especially Hillary Clinton

For some reason when I put in the URL it appears twice, and he first one doesn't work

http://passporttroubles.com/

Thank you in advance. Mark H. Baker

zelphiacat

...And you're how far delinquent on your child support?

mark772

I pay ever month, it's deducted every month from my SSD check, go check out my blog to find out all info

nytraveler

Well, I don't wish to appear unsympathetic - but you don't mention what your disability is.

Obviously there are some disabilities (such as being quadriplegic) that would make working close to impossible ( although there are companies that do specialize in employing people with serious disabilities).

But I'm not sure what sort of injuries a fractured skull almost 10 years ago would cause that would make it impossible for you to ever do any sort of work - even something computer based - or telemaketing or similar. (If you could put together that web site wouldn't some sort of computer based job be an option?)

Obviously if you're going to leave the country you have some degree of mobility and based on the content of the web site you have not suffered any mental impairment.

So - I suppose I'm concerned about why you don't put as much effort into working and paying child support as making complaints about the government's standard steps to encourage non-paying parents to support their children.

nolefan1

I guess the goverment probably feels that if you have the means to apply for a passport and take trips then perhaps you should be applying those funds to your child support. I, like NYtraveler don't mean to be unsympathetic I just wonder where your priorities lie.

suze

interesting 1st post!

i'm always curious how people even find Fodor's to make a strange one & only contribution to the forum

Debi

I'm a bit confused after reading your link. I assume you owe child support from a previous divorce, and that is why you can't get a passport. I understand that you were injured, which impaired your ability to work - but I don't see what the disability of your current wife is, and why she can't work... I know many states are seriously going after people that owe child support since many parents (both male and female) had to raise their children on their own, and I frankly applaud those efforts whole-heartedly. I got a little confused with your explanation on why you're behind on your child support, but I guess I don't understand why your wife can't work to help you (as a family now) through this..... I do think that you need to work out the child support issue before you consider traveling, because I do not think that rule is going to change....

mark772

I pay every month, it's deducted monthly from my SSD check, go check out my blog to find out all info

ncgrrl

I've read your blog and agree with nytraveler. If you can put this much effort into getting a passport, you can put as much effort into paying your child support.

You were able to go to Sen. Clinton's office, you were able to go to court, you should be able to go to a job.

Those children need to be put ahead of a 'nice vaction' with your current wife.

mark772

Most states, and including New York do not require a second wife to pay her husbands pass child support. As for how I'm able to go on vacations - my wife works.

Dealing with the medical concerns, every doctor I see, including the SSA considers me totally disabled.

Believe me - I'm not happy with not working. Fractured skulls are serious business and has really taken a toll on what I can and can not do.

Please make sure you read my above blog link before asking any question, or making assumptions, and thank you for all that do. Mark

nytraveler

I'm sorry - my questions still stand.

I don;t see how you can be healthy enough to go on a vacation (which involves movement, all types of lights and a variety of situations) but cannot do the same if it involved working.

Obviously you have some computer skills. And there are MANY, MANY computer-based or phone based jobs that can even be done from home.

I agree that your current wife should not have to pay support to your children with your former wife. But, frankly, I think you should be. (You're not paying anything at the moment - the rest of us are - as well as supporting you.)

It just seems so odd that your disabilities affect only your ability to work and not your ability to travel (which I think would be much more physically demanding).

Separately, I don;t know how PTSD comes into the picture. Assuming the initial incident was so traumatic (and I've been there) it can be relieved with medications (short-term) and therapy (somewhat longer term) and certainly doesn't have to be a long-term complaint. (It took me about 8 months to recover from the aftereffects of a plane crash. And I've been working regularly - sometimes as much as 90 hours a week - and including hundreds of flights - since the incident almost 20 years ago.)

Ag3046

You need to take your self-pitying energies elswhere instead of trolling on this board. Sorry, but you clearly have enough incentive, imagination, insight, and energy to get a job and pay child support.

mark772

ncgrrrl - When it's cold outside, I stay indoors. When it rains outside, I stay indoors. Every time the barometric pressure changes it causes me a lot of pain in my skull, and it usually still affects me even if I stay inside.

Oh one more thing, I can only for very short ( some times mintues view a monitor)

gb944

Well, not to denigrate Canada, but you've got plenty to see without a passport.

You can always view the falls from the US side.

Annabel

I don't understand. You are looking for public support because you cannot get a PASSPORT, not that your child support payment is over $14,000.

If you cannot tolerate florescent lighting and suffer from vertigo, and cannot go to the supermarket, then how can you travel?? Traveling is exhausting.

I would be more concerned with getting your child support straightened out with the state than looking for a passport to travel.

I'm sorry you were injured but I have no sympathy for your present situation.

ipod_robbie

I've read the blog, read all the posts here. I even dug up a copy of the Constitution. I still haven't found 'right to travel' listed anywhere. It is a luxury, not a right.

I sympathize with your situation as I have family members (plural) who are totally disabled and on SSI + SSA.

The laws in place that don't permit issuing a passport to anyone in arrears on child support payments makes sense, does it not? I haven't heard any argument against those laws.

You are free to travel anywhere within the US, so your 'right to travel' is not, in fact, being denied, so you don't win any points with me for that issue.

While I don't personally like Sen. Clinton, I see no reason to scream at her in this case.

Your main beef seems to be that since you are disabled you do not have the means to get ahead on child support. OK, I get that part.

If you feel the amount of child support is inappropriate then you can take your case to a family court judge. If the judge has refused to lower the amount you owe you will have a hard time convincing a public internet forum that we should disagree.

If traveling internationally is so important to you and your current wife then you two can decide to use $ from her income to pay your back child support. That is a choice you apparently have decided you don't wish to make.

My salary alone does not pay enough to afford the type of travel I wish to do. It is my wife's income that supports our leisure travel. That is a choice we have made.

Barbara

If you can't work, then you need to go back to court to have the child support order amended. I hope your child(ren) don't acually rely on support from you.

I'll bet that if your previous wife has remarried, her current husband will be contributing to the support of your children.

mark772

I'm honestly very surprised that not one read how I suffered a fractured skull, nor think that I'm being treated wrongly by our government.

I also believe you might want to consider reading the link I have post on my blog, and maybe google a fractured skull and read what others have to deal with daily

Annabel

I am curious. With a big beautiful country that includes exerything from deserts to beaches and everything in between, why do you need a passport?

mark772

Hello Barbara, would you be surprized to hear that my children age 22, and 16 get along with me, and show no anger towards my problem, nor have they ever said anything about why I don't pay my ex.

My ex recently had a problem with my daughter and I heard a knock on the door and found my daughter crying becasue she was kicked out of her mom's home, my daughter did go home after a month staying with me, and this isn't the first time it's happened.

I love my children, and 5 minutes after they leave my home I miss them.

My ex wife did remarry, the guy divorced her 2 years latter