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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
Today, it's been three weeks since I moved to Germany with my own money, after my company's offices in Spain shut down. I was given a job at the headquarters here, only to have just found out that the whole company is now set to go into liquidation. FML
Today, after 3 months of job hunting, I finally got a job. But now my birth certificate and social security card are somehow lost, and I can't start until I let them see a copy. FML
Today, I accepted a great job offer I've been working months to earn so I can continue to live with my fiancé here in Poland. I just found out that my work visa was denied. Now I have to fly home to Canada and reapply before coming back. This takes a month. My new job starts tomorrow. FML
Today, I finally received my passport. Too bad my flight to Italy left last week. FML
Today, after cancelling work, arguing with my family, scrambling to pack my bags, speeding to the airport and filling in immigration forms to fly out to have a much needed holiday, I wasn't allowed to check in. My passport has less than 6 months away from expiration on it. Yes, that's a thing, apparently. FML
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
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
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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Top comments
gpg5 19
They must have really hated you.
devildog562 33
Government services always seem to work this way. Personally at the 9 week mark for my medical license .... Sorry op.
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Comments (50)
mr_aaaaaaaa 12
I totally feel u...I hope u can get that visa asap and good luck to ur work in German!
vikky538 29
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
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Ihavegas 22
whatever happened to German efficiency.
more4me 27
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
The same crap in Belgium. Good luck with European bureaucrats...
Agtthepw 21
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
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
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
sydneysays 15
That sucks a lot
Crossbowe 13
Happened to me except with other stuff.