Up this morning at the crack to catch a bus to Warsaw for an appointment at the US Embassy.... I need to get some documents notarized for my immigration attorney in Milan.

The preference is that they be notarized by an Italian notary, but the Italian Embassy/consulate only performs services for Italian citizens (as is to be expected I guess) and they actually didn’t even deign it worth their time to respond to my queries..... so I must have my documents notarized by a US notary AND THEN get an Apostille (which to the best I can understand is a notarization of the notarization — and needed in this case only because the notary is not Italian ).... thinking about it now, standing in the sunshine at the bus station, I wonder if a Polish notary (in Hooterville!!!!!) could have done the same for me... hmmmmmmm.... digressing, digressing.....

No clue if I can accomplish both tasks in a single visit.... I might be making ANOTHER early morning trek across Poland!

More about apostille: http://www.internationalapostille.com/what-is-an-apostille/