Work: Today, after waiting well over a month for a work visa in Germany...

By AdriftInTheSeaOfPaperwork - 24/09/2014 17:17 - Germany - Dachau

Today, after waiting well over a month for a work visa in Germany that should only have taken 3 weeks to come through, I finally received my long-awaited answer. Unfortunately, that answer was "We lost your paperwork." FML

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By AgentKoos_99 - 11/10/2016 07:52 - South Africa - Johannesburg

Today, after waiting 3 months to see if I got the job I had applied for, I was told that they never received my application. Turns out that the email address that they told me to send it to was not being checked anymore and that they would be happy to consider me for the following year. FML

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By AmericanAlien - 09/03/2014 02:15 - Canada - Edmonton

Today, I've been waiting for a very important document in the mail. It has been two months. I reviewed my application and realized I forgot to put a mailing address down. FML

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Today, I finally received my passport. Too bad my flight to Italy left last week. FML

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Today, my mental state went down another 2 levels when after 2 years of unemployment, I finally got offered a great job abroad. However, I probably won't even be able to go because I've reached the point where I'm too broke to even apply to get my passport made. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/04/2012 07:51 - Australia - Perth

Today, I had to call the Australian Passport office to track my passport. Turns out they lost it in the mail. A week ago, I got my dream job as a flight attendant. Without a passport they won't accept me. I lost my dream job before I even started it. FML

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By traveling - 09/07/2013 11:18

Today, I arrived in Germany for a summer-long stay. The family I'm supposed to stay with had said they spoke fluent English. They don't. I don't speak German. It's going to be a quiet two months. FML

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gpg5 19

Wednesday 24 September 2014 23:01

They must have really hated you.

devildog562 33

Wednesday 24 September 2014 23:04

Government services always seem to work this way. Personally at the 9 week mark for my medical license .... Sorry op.

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mr_aaaaaaaa 12

Wednesday 24 September 2014 23:33

I totally feel u...I hope u can get that visa asap and good luck to ur work in German!

vikky538 28

Wednesday 24 September 2014 23:43

its surprising that they lost the paperwork but got a record of your home address to send a letter..wonder how their system is working...

whiteangel361 10

Thursday 25 September 2014 0:15

Ihavegas 22

Thursday 25 September 2014 0:31

whatever happened to German efficiency.

more4me 27

Thursday 25 September 2014 0:31

Proof that bureaucracy is a little bit the same everywhere ? At least you got a sincere apology instead of a fine for missing the deadline ... best of luck to you, OP.

PoLLynomchik 11

Thursday 25 September 2014 0:39

The same crap in Belgium. Good luck with European bureaucrats...

Agtthepw 21

Thursday 25 September 2014 1:47

Don't want to start the US v. EU fight here but I remember how painful it was to get a visa for the US. I guess we all have our own species of bureaucrats. Still I find it crazy that they lost you papers, good luck starting over!

BigMeepers 20

Thursday 25 September 2014 1:05

My grandfather is going to Turkey, he waited a couple months before he was told the ID he put in wasn't valid or something.

ShadowOpsV4 13

Thursday 25 September 2014 1:54

I shit you not.. When me and my family moved to Spain we had to get visas and it took forever for them to give us our visa and since we had already been in Spain for 90 days we had to take a 2 week trip to London as a vacation waiting for our visas because we would have been in Spain illegally based on tourist laws or something like that