You are fingerprinted.

There is a criminal history check, because the statute is written to stop people doing it for the wrong reasons.

There is a hearing, which took about ninety seconds, in front of a judge who granted six of them that morning.

It cost him three hundred and eighteen dollars, which in the summer of 2016 was about two and a half weeks of what he had.

And then there is everything afterward, which is the part nobody tells you about and which took him fourteen months.