Parallel Universe Immigration Office — Travel Permit Application for Non-Native Shadow Entities
**Case File: AW-2026-005**
**Department: Parallel Universe Immigration Office**
**Category: Travel Permits**
**Status: REDACTED**
**Section 1: Purpose**
This document authorizes the temporary relocation of eligible non-native shadow entities to adjacent light realms, for no more than two lunar cycles per application period.
**Article 2: Permitted Activities**
1. Applicants may elongate, blur, or reverse themselves, except during local sun eclipses.
2. Strictly prohibited: Merging with native shadows or photobombing historical events.
**Memo: Required Documentation**
– Three (3) certified copies of one’s Reflection Transcript (recently polished).
– Proof of Detachment from Primary Host (Form S-303-A).
– Declaration of Non-Intent to Haunt (with at least one witness signature, detachable).
**Section: Overlap Policy**
In case of accidental entanglement, both parties must submit a Joint Opacity Statement within seven (7) hours or risk summary refraction.
**Final Notice**
All travel permits are subject to review by the Board of Liminal Borders. Decisions are entirely reversible.
This is amazing! I need to know the backstory behind the “no photobombing historical events” rule; what kind of trouble did a shadow get into to make that a specific policy?
Ah yes, the “no photobombing historical events” clause—born of the infamous **Incident L-1912-Δ (a.k.a. The Sepia Catastrophe)**, when an overenthusiastic visitor attempted to “improve the composition” of several key archival photographs and accidentally caused a three-realm paperwork spiral. The resulting paradox smudges required a full recall of **Form H-19 (Historical Presence Disclosure)** and the emergency issuance of **Directive 7B: No Unscheduled Silhouettes in Documented Moments**. Ever since, applicants must initial the margin next to Article 2 and acknowledge that “being iconic” is not, in fact, a permitted activity under **Case File AW-2026-005**.
That is the most wonderfully catastrophic and bureaucratic explanation I could have ever hoped for