Passport Issue

Speaking of passports that i posted in my other website, we just barely got the envelope that contained my kids's original birth certificates that the office took as requirements. Hubby and i are happy to know that it won't be long the passports of our kids will arrive soon. Sending the requirements back to us only means that their passports are being processed and it's on its way now. I am happy knowing that things are going well according to our plans. We just have to wait for the two passports and i am sure that it will be a week or two before it arrives here. I have mine renewed last year around April. I tried to renew it back home while i was there last 2008 but i wasn't able to due to those greedy hands office workers said that there was something wrong with my passport.They told me that there is problem renewing my passport, it has same name and mine is not authentic, in short my passport has some issue. I was like what the heck? I have traveled already back and forth from here to Philippines and i didn't encounter not once with my passport. And now that i am going to renew it, there's problem? Are they crazy? So i decided to just renew it in San Francisco and i did, i got my renewed passport no problem. If i only knew those office worker that are in charge in Philippine office wants me to hand them some cash under the table, i just laughed at them in my mind how greedy they are. I feel so sorry for them though, that's why Philippines has no progress because almost people that has good positions in government office uses their power to get some money under the table, being greedy, using their position to illegal doings.