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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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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)
tamannab97 23
I'm sooooo sorry OP! I'm going through a similar situation :(
infectedmushroom 2
I'm so sorry OP :/ My sister went through the same situation. Took her almost half a year to get things completed -.-'
micka13_123 7
Hahahha!
Maxxie_moose 4
I've been wanting to move there, heard you have to have a really good job, have immediate family or be married to a person of that country.. :(
masmalaque 21
Same happened to me in Berlin. They lost my paperwork twice before an HR rep from my company called and demanded my visa after waiting for over 2 months (I didn't speak German at the time so I couldn't do it myself). They never admitted they lost my paperwork though, they blame me for not submitting them, even if they lost a copy of my passport which is mandatory to be able to submit the papers in the first place. German bureaucracy is the worse!