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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you survived minnesota. you can survive this.
ReplyDeleteoh 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.
ReplyDeleteIt'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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