Tuesday, August 05, 2008

You thought German bureaucracy was complicated? Well, it's nothing...

...compared to Argetinian bureaucracy! I my god! I tell you. I my god! Now I have to tell you my story about how trying to get my study visa. I didn't come further than TRYING. I still didn't get one and I wonder when and if I will really get one. Well, in order to get my visa, I needed a paper from the UBA that said that I was a student and that I would study. It also includes my date of arrival and the amount of time I will stay in this country. The woman from the UBA put a wrong arrival date on the paper accidently and also switched my 6 months stay to a 12 months stay. Well, at the beginning I though this wouldn't be such a big problem. Wrong guess. I somehow knew that this could be a problem, so I went back to the UBA to have this paper changed. Unhappily the woman from the UBA was out of office to make some copies. Unfortunately she didn't come back after 1 hour of waiting so I decided to leave and to try my best of the immigration hall. At the immigration hall - as I thought - they told me that I had to have these wrong details corrected. So I went back to the UBA (the woman who's in charge - wasn't there that day, so I had to return another day). There she gave me a letter that said that the details on the paper were wrong, that it was her fault and also she wrote down the real details. Back to the immigration hall they didn't accept the letter and told me to bring the original paper but corrected. I told the woman at the UBA that I needed the original paper changed which she was trying to do. First she had problems with her computer that refused printing out the corrected original. After having called the immigration hall for help she found out that she needed to come herself to the immigration hall PERSONALLY to correct the details because it was her fault and not mine... Honestly, I didn't know if it was better to laugh or cry. Unbelievable. This week she doesn't have time to go, maybe she's going next week. Anyway, she told me not to worry, she will let me incribe myself without this study visa (which was my only reason to obtain it). Lol. Fine with me. I wonder if I will able to get this visa at all within the time I spend here... Vamos a ver!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Danilein,
mach dir keine Sorgen. So wie sich das anhört, kannst du doch studieren, oder? Aber das is ja echt blöd, wenn man so unfähige Menschen hat, die einem gültige Papiere ausstellen müssen. Hoffe, dass sich alles für dich regelt. hab dich lieb und viele grüße,

deine Judith

Mel said...

lol - I'd say don't bother with the visa - just make sure that you can study and that they will let you leave at the end of your stay! :)

Simone said...

No te preocupes: todo resultará bien. En Chile me pasó casi lo mismo: de una oficina a otra y de nuevo a la primera - casi cómo en esta película de Asterix *g*.
Ya me alegro de leer algo sobre tus experiencias en la u. Tienes que contarme cómo te va :)

Muchos saludos desde Augsburgo
Simone

Anonymous said...

Hey Dani-Honey,
na so was...jetzt siehste mal wie gut wir's in Deutschland mit unseren Ministerien doch haben...
Das war mir auch nicht klar, bevor ich nicht nach Israel gefahren bin, und ähnliche Erfahrungen wie du gemacht habe...bei mir warens aber eher die Bank und die Telefongesellschaft, die mich öfters auf die Palme gebracht haben! ^^
Hey, hätten dir nicht auch n Visa für 12 Montate austellen können? Wär ja nicht so schlimm, wärst halt nach der Hälfte gegangen! ;-)
Habe heute meine 3. Tag Praktikum beim SWR gemeistert. Bislang war's cool...hab auch schon interessante Sachen gemacht und gesehen. Kenne jetzt viele Beiträge von der ARD schon bevor sie gesendet werden. ^^
Leider ist die Deutsche Bahn nicht ganz so zuverlässig, wie ich es mir wünsche, aber naja...
Wann geht denn die Uni los? Am Montag?
lg,
David.

ladysahne said...

Hallo ihr Lieben!

Lol, ja, ich glaub ich muss hier alles etwas lockerer sehen... Und so lange ich so studieren kann, ist es mir auch egal. Simone, es beruhigt mich, dass es in Chile ähnlich kompliziert war. Krass David, dass es in Israel auch so kompliziert war... Hätte ich gar nicht gedacht.
Ich habe mich gestern in meine Kurse an der Uni eingeschrieben, aber mehr im nächsten Blogeintrag dazu.
Qué os vayáis muy bien,
hasta pronto

Anonymous said...

hey dani,
langsam mache ich mir echt sorgen...alles klar bei dir??
hab dir drei eeeewig lange studi-nachrichten geschrieben und jetzt meldest du dich banause nicht...oh man...hoffe dir gehts gut!
knutsch aus augsburg.....melde dich doch mal!
hannalein

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