Grrrr.....From a website on living in Italy: Inefficiency and Italian bureaucracy If there is one thing people always complain about in Italy, it is bureaucracy. From a foreign perspective, Italy appears to be an unorganized country, motherland of useless and long procedures. ...The real problem lies in the slowness of offices and in the inefficiency and negligence of some people working in the public system which, as a consequence, is overwhelmed with paperwork...Some experts believe the lack of a good bureaucratic system does not only affect the interests of each individual citizen, but also damages greatly both the image and the economy of the country. The hindrance characterizing document handling represents an obstacle for economic growth, because foreign investors are less likely to deal with a place where, in small words, it takes so long to get anything done, mostly because such delay often result in higher financial expenditures...Therefore, if you go to Italy just be prepared to long queues and bring with you a huge amount of patience, it will be needed! Case in point: We were supposed to arrive in Italy on June 27th and Donna was to begin work July first. She has people from her company working with both the Italian embassy in Seoul, as well as the immigration office in Bologna to ease the way. We submitted all the proper documents in the recommended time, and everything seemed fine...that is, until the office in Bologna noted that Donnas son was listed as her spouse. We rechecked all the documents we submitted, and even our approval papers from the Italian embassy. All of them had everything correctly listed. You cannot call the embassy. You may only e-mail them. They respond after a few days. They told us the correction could take a week, or a month. We were waiting for three weeks to hear, and today learned that the office in Bologna had done nothing, and that we should go to Seoul and have them process our visas, and (for which we need airline ticket reservations) and THEN the people in Bologna would fix things. How long would it take? They dont know...between three weeks and THREE MONTHS. Why the heck would anyone do business in a country that treats foreign workers like that? We would have already been spending Donnas salary on the streets of Bologna if they hadnt screwed it up. Multiply that by how many ever other people theyve inconvenienced, and you can see why the Italian economy is in trouble! : /
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 12:29:19 +0000
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