"This is my land now; I can show you all the paperwork," says Mama Neema as she points to her plot, where she has built three houses for her family of seven.
People say, the paperwork says X; the paperwork is legitimate.
"It's just filling out the paperwork," says Bill Owens, the California-based founder of the American Distilling Institute.
While the paperwork says that he was 26 and she was 28, the gap was considerably wider.
"All the contract officers can do is check the paperwork," said one agency official, who asked not to be identified.
"People can't get to our offices to pick up the paperwork," said Jamilah Abed, a training assistant with the organization.
"We were all sorting through the paperwork," said Ms. Singleton, 39, who works in the financial industry and whose parents also live in the building.
Sometimes, a Y.M.C.A. employee helps the students explain to their school why they should get credit, or teaches them "what to say and how to say it, and give them the paperwork," said Marty Forth, the senior director of teen programs.
"When [the nonprofit] called GMAC a few weeks later, they said they never got the paperwork," said Zapata.
They are probably getting all their ducks in a row to prepare for the paperwork," said Jack Vitek, world records coordinator for the International Game Fish Assn.
