Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Italian Pop Quiz




True or False?


To receive your Permit of Stay, you need a local residence.
(It comes in the mail.)
To have a local residence, you need to pay rent.
(This one is pretty universal, I think.)
To pay rent, you need a local bank account.
(Large international bank transfers are expensive.)
To open a local bank account, you need to show your Permit of Stay.
(Once it comes in the mail.  To your apartment.  That you can't pay for.  Without a bank account.)

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3 comments:

  1. you survived minnesota. you can survive this.

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  2. oh no....you have to love bureaucracy. when I went to mexico they made me turn in all of the forms that I had turned in to the consulate in Detroit again. some of which I hadn't brought with me. that was an adventure.

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  3. It's craziness. The upside is that I will never complain about the wait at a Secretary of State's office again.... :)

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