Girl any immigrant ever feels your pain. This isn't even that bad, in America you have Human Services, Social Security, and Social Services. And ANY time you need something from each place, they will send you to the other location. I literally once went to these three departments 8 times because they kept saying, "Oh this isn't our job...go to (so and so)"
@@Bruce.Wanye. What a disgusting thing to say. America wouldn't exist if people "stayed in their own country." In fact, no country is sustainable that way.
I'm really loving this Italy content. My dream (and im sure a lot of people watching this) rn is to just leave my home and start over. I'm in my 2nd year of college and I'm already so over it. I'm also really tired of living in California and the U.S. in general. I'm living vicariously through you and it's honestly a form of therapy.
Yeees! Come to Europe, I am from Germany and lived in Italy the last months and honestly I am always stunned at the prices for college in the US. In Germany university is completely free and Italy is like 3000 euro per year as well!
welcome to Europe!! bureaucracy is a NIGHTMARE here idk about northern europe but the mediterranean countries don't know efficiency or completing simple process online... 😩🙄
It's a double-edged sword, I feel like. I'm German, and we all *love* to pride ourselves on our supposed efficency and time management skills, but bureaucracy can be such a disaster here as well 😩😩 Sometimes, acquiring or getting back important official forms can take quite a while. Even for residents (mostly regarding insurrance etc.)
The north, as in Scandinavia is generally not like this. You might have to wait for stuff but you are usually sent to the right place(s) at once and they often give out some form of temporary licences and/or numbers to you while you wait to get properly approved or worked into the system(s) so you should never end up with an "illegal" status because of bureaucracy screw ups.
yep, when she said Italian bureaucracy is shit, I was like no it's like this in the whole mediterranean and south europe. we are so behind on online forms and most people who work in the government have no idea what to do. literally, filling out forms for student grants takes so effing long and you have to visit ten different places, what a nightmare!
honestly i feel like this type of bureaucracy is really shitty everywhere (technically what youre doing I would say counts as temporary immigration). other EU countries are terrible at it too, especially if it comes to non-EU citizens, it's just such a mess. I live in the EU and i used to work for a company where all we did was we helped foreign citizens navigate this horrible system, because the actual authorities are no help at all. Im glad your situation is finally resolved!
The best advice I can give, as an Italian, on how to overcome our bureaucracy: be worse than them. Show up repeatedly without appointments, don't feel ashamed to insist on everything (even if you feel like you're being rude), never trust what they say in person (online official sources tend to be slightly more truthful) and in general expect to be pissed off for the whole process.
When I had my first ID card done it was delivered by post. At the post office they told me to show them my ID so they can give me my letter. I was like, 'I don't have one, it is in your hand'. The answer to that was, 'We can't help you, no ID means no letter.' My mom had to collect it for me later. It was surreal.
lmao something similar happened to me too: got a letter about taxes and you can't take it without an ID, but my dad was like I know the postman he'll give it to you no problem (it's a small town, everyone knows everyone9. of course, when we tried to collect it, some nasty old hag worked there and wouldn't give it to me, dad just cursed them out and the letter is probably still there lol the post office is the literal definition of hell
This is what doing literally anything in The States is like. Any time anything gets resolved quickly and easily I almost cry because I’m expecting a fight 😂🙃😭
Hahah so I’m from the UK and I’m currently living in Malta (just off of Italy) and I couldn’t stop laughing throughout this video because I’ve experienced such a similar thing! The only difference being with Brexit going on, the government here genuinely doesn’t know what to do with us Brits. Also I’ve found in the Mediterranean if you’re told you need an appointment - you pretty much don’t, just turn up and no one will question it 😂 so true that no one wants to do anything online or over the phone here though, everything is very old fashioned and face-to-face
Currently going through the process right now. You're video has helped me through this AWFUL TERRIBLE PROCESS with some comedic relief and good advice. thank you so much hahahahaha new zealand systems I miss you
Yeah - being an immigrant in any country usually isn't easy. It is not my experience that there is any willingness to make the process easy on the one going through it. At least you are not one with the "wrong" ethnic background. in an Italian context..
As an Italian - you’re absolutely right, our bureaucracy sucks. whenever you have to fill out some form or find out what to do and where to go for something it’s a huge hassle😂
From Italian viewpoint, this video is hilarious. I'm sorry for you (obs), but I have seen your kind of situation too many times and you are saying the same stuffs that we say every time! I love it, I hope you're done with bureaucracy as long as possible ahah
italian paperwork is so bad and a lot people working in these places have no desire to actually help you out in any way or make things easy for you. my grandfather needed a document to go from permesso di soggiorno to actual citizenship (like 20 years ago, but it's not like it was much different from how it is now) and had to schedule five appointments back and forth bc this one place kept saying they didn't have it and others told him they definitely did. they said he'd have to fly back to his country and get it there because they were SURE they didn't have it or wait until they could go through every document again. he ended up managing to convince the dude working there to make him look for it and found it within an hour...
also the fact that a lot of places accept you without checking whether you actually have an appointment or not is the reason a lot of people show up in lines/places they shouldn't be in/they should have an appointment for and try it anyway and it's??? so absurd????
@@calinda4003 yep, southern europe does this perfectly - if you schedule an appointment you'll wait like a month and no one will care, but if you just show up, they'll do it in like 15 minutes lmao
As an Italian I 100% feel you, Lily. Burocracy is fucked up here not only for Permesso di Soggiorno, but for literally everything. And wow! You also experienced the notorious italian post offices' efficency! Hope you're enjoying the food at least :)
Glad things worked themselves out in the end. I enjoy watching videos of your everyday life experiences. I moved to France a few years back and now to Sweden and I had similar experiences with bureaucracy in both countries. I think it is combination of incompetence and malevolence.
Similar thing with me. Moved from Australia to Croatia, it's extremely difficult and confusing to do any paper work. In Australia they basically treat you like a 5 year old, anyone can get it done. In the Mediterranean you need to be a lawyer to understand anything.
Croatian here - my dad has to call an accountant to understand how student scholarships work (which are not supposed to be even complicated) and sometimes even a professional accountant has trouble understanding them. what a mess, every time I see the demands for the paperwork, I have to stop and think is this free money worth it??
Italian government: why is everyone leaving our country? :( Also Italian government: lol you want what? a functional bureaucracy? better look elsewhere
My god, I am literally going through the same thing here in Italy. For me, it was even worse since on top of that process I had to fuck with university and scholarship bureaucracy. Nobody knows what there doing and they are constantly transferring responsibility to someone else. It's a never-ending agony. You should stop emotionally investing in it, just try to resolve everything technically. Stay strong :D
When you were messinig with your hair in that D E S T I N Y shirt, I read it as "L Stiny" and thought it was an endearing nickname for Goosebumps' RL Stine. Oh god 😂😂😂
this is dangerous information for me to learn because i'm literally one stressful situation from dropping everything and moving to italy under a new identity
I am so glad I didnt have to do this for my semester in Ital since I am an European citizen, but I had to go and get a tax number so I could rent an apartment and I am so glad my landlords went with me because otherwise it would have been a nightmare :D
I'm about to go through all this so this was super helpful. Its nice to know in the meantime for the appointment I guess I can just go fuck off for now. I'm also in milano!
Oh well good luck with it all hahha. Book an appointment at the questura, bring photocopies of everything. and make sure you pay the Marca da bollo & the permit fee (at the post office) BEFORE you turn up at your appointment so it can lodged on the day - otherwise you'll have to rebook
Imagine living in Italy for 12 years and having to renew it every. f-ing. year. Also, for 2, TWO, consecutive years I risked not being able to take my exams at university because it took them 10, TEN months to give me the freaking plastic thingy.
@@LilyCReads10 you’re right honestly hahaha the thing is that my family is here too and the country I was born in (Albania) maybe is even worse 😫 anyways, i recently discovered your channel and I really love your videos!! Keep it up 💪😘
First of all; love the new style of videos you are putting out and second of all fuuuuu bureaucracy been dealing with German authorities and bruh to keep things short I feel your pain!! But Why? Has been my question all year hahah still: congrats!!! 🍾🎊 start of a new chapter and I can’t wait to see you tell it! X
This kind of bullshit is everywhere, with government, when you are applying for a new job etc. There are always surprise “extra documents” at the end, or the last process to your “quick online job application” is actually a small essay. But you would never go through that much bullshit when you are trying to buy something on Amazon. It takes 1 seconds to click on “buy now” and they don’t even ask for confirmation, your money is already taken, no refund or regret allowed.
Omg. Omg I relate so hard. Just today I have been to the Questura, the Ufficio Immigrazione, the Anagrafe - I CANNOT. Not one single person apparently knows anything about the permesso di soggiorno. I am losing my mind. God bless you for making me laugh about this shit because I sweeaaar I am this close to screaming in a public building.
this bureaucracy stuff is a nightmare everywhere, I cannot imagine how it must be during covid. I have lived in three countries, spent a semester abroad and every now and then there have been utter nightmare moments where you just think "country/city xyz, get your sh*t together so that I can get my sh*t together, ok?" in my experience, it has only worked out smoothly in Austria (love love love). there is nothing you can do, when the countries are not organised, at least the deadlines are also not taken dead seriously if you cannot stick to them - at least in my experience.
This is not an Italy problem, this is a Europe problem, bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy... I'm moving back to Germany after 3 years in Saudi and the amount of paperwork they want, and explanations not to mention I have to pay taxes ON MY OWN BELONGINGS I'm bringing back with me - which by the way I had to write up detailed lists and costs for...etc etc. Anyone reading this, this is an aspect of Socialism people like to ignore. Oh and what Lily said is true, people won't lift a finger to help you, even for something as small as a stamp, the answer is always "that's not my department". Can't wait to leave Germany again.
As an aust who’s moved here you have expressed everything we are socially too old to say .. do you have a Patreon type thing .. you ate a breath of fresh air in millennial content good luck with it x
Hi! Tysm for sharing this experience. I am about to do the same in 2 months...Any chance you remember what the code was? I feel like mine will be the same and praying I don't have this same issue! Thank you!
this video gave me PTSD flasbacks to when I was applying for a student home; you literally had to take out like 50 different documents, spend like a month collecting them, most of which didn't even make sense, and then when I sent it, got a reply I forgot to include a small piece of paper with my social security number and that is why I was denied. Nevermind that the exact effing number was included in at least ten different documents I sent, but no. What a joke.
This was me applying for my study abroad where I couldn't complete a certain section because no one knew anything about the visa options that would be available to me, then when I FINALLY got the info it opened up another box of info I needed to fill out, which opened up ANOTHER box etc. etc. And it was all "for nothing" since the exchange ended up being cancelled due to Covid. But at least I kinda know how it works now. Can't wait to do it all over again in not long so I maybe can go in 2022 instead. *displeased noises*
Hi i'm new here. But as a foreigner living in france and had to deal with the french bureaucracy, allow me to express my sympathy because i can COMPLETELY relate to this video. It's the same shit up here and i struggled a lot as well 😂
Funny thing is everytime i be able to get done with paperwork and all those shitty buraeucracy stuff like this, i always ended up with the "yass i'm the strongest bitch ever" feeling 😂
Things about public services in Italy you need to know: No one will ever photocopy your stuff, because they are constantly running low on office supplies like ink. They don;t have the budget to photocopy everyone's original paperwork. Good luck with the bureaucracy!
To break a lance in favour of italian burocracy. You asked a "permesso di soggiorno per vacanze lavoro" (work vacation residency permit) a type of residency permit that exist only for countries outside the EU who accepted a bilateral agreement with italy granting the same rights to italian in their countries 4 in total. This permit is reserved for people under 30. So it's a rare permit that exists only for a total of 4000 people from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and south Korea. Not even the 0,1% of the 5,2 milion foreigners ( persons without italian citizenships) that lives in italy request that permit.
If you ask the permesso di soggiorno for the first time you have to go to Questura principale witch is the immigrazione centr . You will present all your documents all the photo copies. But watch out when you renewal the permesso di soggiorno you will have to go to police station near of your residence. Note: take the appointment form post office attached all the documents before two months of your psd getting expire . In finally Benvenuta nell democrazia italiana. :)
I commend you for doing this cause my dumbass would’ve gotten deported lol I’m the type of girl that needs a thorough walk through. I would love to do it though
I live in Greece and the bureaucracy is pretty much the same, if not worse...You need all the stupid stamps and stickers for everything! Thank god corona happened so certain services decided to go online...
LMFAOOOO as an Italian I am so sorry you experienced it,our paperworks are insane. No one know anything about any problem, the information they give to you are not complete and they refer to you elsewhere every time without explanation, there’s always something up that come right after you make a step onward. It’s a joke
Hey, great video. Quick one - the both guides you posted says, only fill 1st module if it's your first Permesso di Soggiorno. Is it true even if I'm employed in Italy by the UN? Seems no one knows anything, I tried the questura, lawyers all seem useless. They just can't tell you simple and straight answer. If you know any good lawyer, then can you share his/her details? I got a visa type D (mission) which is valid until next year but I'm planning to resign from my job next month. So, figuring out a way to extend my stay here. Any tip/advice would be appreciated! Thanks much
I've never heard such an unenthusiastic "hey guys", but I stan an italian queen
This permit experience has left me as an empty husk of my former self
@Husk a husk is the shell/skin of a seed
@Husk oh haha, didn't notice 😂
Girl any immigrant ever feels your pain. This isn't even that bad, in America you have Human Services, Social Security, and Social Services. And ANY time you need something from each place, they will send you to the other location. I literally once went to these three departments 8 times because they kept saying, "Oh this isn't our job...go to (so and so)"
it's Kafkaesque 😩
🍒 periods fuck these systems
Well stay in your country immigrant.
@@Bruce.Wanye. What a disgusting thing to say. America wouldn't exist if people "stayed in their own country." In fact, no country is sustainable that way.
I love the diverse content you’ve been posting lately. I hope you don’t shy away from including more Italian vlogs in your upcoming videos 🥰
Thank you !! 😊
I don’t plan on moving to Italy anytime soon but you bet I paid attention to Lily when she explained how to get your paperwork done
lmao i feel like we (anyone who’s italian/been to italy) were all expecting this tbh im so sorry but this was so funny to watch
I'm really loving this Italy content. My dream (and im sure a lot of people watching this) rn is to just leave my home and start over. I'm in my 2nd year of college and I'm already so over it. I'm also really tired of living in California and the U.S. in general. I'm living vicariously through you and it's honestly a form of therapy.
haha thank you!! 😊
Why you wonna leave?
Yeees! Come to Europe, I am from Germany and lived in Italy the last months and honestly I am always stunned at the prices for college in the US. In Germany university is completely free and Italy is like 3000 euro per year as well!
I'm also tired of living in California & the US in general!
Therapy ....
Paperwork is my nemesis.... listening to this was so stressful. Glad its done!!
welcome to Europe!! bureaucracy is a NIGHTMARE here idk about northern europe but the mediterranean countries don't know efficiency or completing simple process online... 😩🙄
It's a double-edged sword, I feel like. I'm German, and we all *love* to pride ourselves on our supposed efficency and time management skills, but bureaucracy can be such a disaster here as well 😩😩 Sometimes, acquiring or getting back important official forms can take quite a while. Even for residents (mostly regarding insurrance etc.)
The north, as in Scandinavia is generally not like this. You might have to wait for stuff but you are usually sent to the right place(s) at once and they often give out some form of temporary licences and/or numbers to you while you wait to get properly approved or worked into the system(s) so you should never end up with an "illegal" status because of bureaucracy screw ups.
yep, when she said Italian bureaucracy is shit, I was like no it's like this in the whole mediterranean and south europe. we are so behind on online forms and most people who work in the government have no idea what to do. literally, filling out forms for student grants takes so effing long and you have to visit ten different places, what a nightmare!
honestly i feel like this type of bureaucracy is really shitty everywhere (technically what youre doing I would say counts as temporary immigration). other EU countries are terrible at it too, especially if it comes to non-EU citizens, it's just such a mess. I live in the EU and i used to work for a company where all we did was we helped foreign citizens navigate this horrible system, because the actual authorities are no help at all. Im glad your situation is finally resolved!
Lily does book rant - swears like a sailor
Lily does video telling how frustrating it is to move to Italy - minimal swears. Lol
The best advice I can give, as an Italian, on how to overcome our bureaucracy: be worse than them. Show up repeatedly without appointments, don't feel ashamed to insist on everything (even if you feel like you're being rude), never trust what they say in person (online official sources tend to be slightly more truthful) and in general expect to be pissed off for the whole process.
I feel like you're getting better with the language!
seriously! watching you say the title of this permit in september versus now is such ✨growth!✨
@@allisonpaiges she's fluent
@@7yep4336dfgvvh she's not she's a beginner who's learning
When I had my first ID card done it was delivered by post. At the post office they told me to show them my ID so they can give me my letter. I was like, 'I don't have one, it is in your hand'. The answer to that was, 'We can't help you, no ID means no letter.' My mom had to collect it for me later. It was surreal.
lmao something similar happened to me too: got a letter about taxes and you can't take it without an ID, but my dad was like I know the postman he'll give it to you no problem (it's a small town, everyone knows everyone9. of course, when we tried to collect it, some nasty old hag worked there and wouldn't give it to me, dad just cursed them out and the letter is probably still there lol the post office is the literal definition of hell
I'm so sorry. This made me laugh so hard jgfdddfg
Middle class Americans filling out the FAFSA and getting -$12,500 in scholarship grants
👁👄👁
thank you haha I've been living this stress too, it's nice to see someone else say everything I feel about italian bureaucracy ^^'
This is what doing literally anything in The States is like. Any time anything gets resolved quickly and easily I almost cry because I’m expecting a fight 😂🙃😭
I want to cry of joy because I finally see an american say "The States" and not "America" like it´s the whole continent. Love from brazil
me: thinking maybe id move to another country...
*sees this video and lily talks abt appointments and paperwork*
me: yeah nvm
but also yay for you not getting deported
Hahah so I’m from the UK and I’m currently living in Malta (just off of Italy) and I couldn’t stop laughing throughout this video because I’ve experienced such a similar thing! The only difference being with Brexit going on, the government here genuinely doesn’t know what to do with us Brits. Also I’ve found in the Mediterranean if you’re told you need an appointment - you pretty much don’t, just turn up and no one will question it 😂 so true that no one wants to do anything online or over the phone here though, everything is very old fashioned and face-to-face
your interior gives me Polish dorm vibes
also, welcome to Europe, I hope you're enjoying our fantastic sense of order
Yeah "sense of order" my butt.
I was joking, but in all seriousness. Getting a permit in Italy sounds like a mess.
Currently going through the process right now. You're video has helped me through this AWFUL TERRIBLE PROCESS with some comedic relief and good advice. thank you so much hahahahaha new zealand systems I miss you
*Absolutely everything going wrong when trying to do paperwork*
Me in Latin America: yeah, that sounds about right
I feel like i've been living in a bubble my whole life with govt processes up until now
Me, in Argentina: oh, of course, all this process makes sense
@@luvillamil1 jajaja justamente a Argentina me refería 😂
Yeah - being an immigrant in any country usually isn't easy. It is not my experience that there is any willingness to make the process easy on the one going through it. At least you are not one with the "wrong" ethnic background. in an Italian context..
As an Italian - you’re absolutely right, our bureaucracy sucks. whenever you have to fill out some form or find out what to do and where to go for something it’s a huge hassle😂
that sounds soo stressful for no reason... im so sorry
From Italian viewpoint, this video is hilarious. I'm sorry for you (obs), but I have seen your kind of situation too many times and you are saying the same stuffs that we say every time!
I love it, I hope you're done with bureaucracy as long as possible ahah
I am invested in this travel story so this is great to hear about!
italian paperwork is so bad and a lot people working in these places have no desire to actually help you out in any way or make things easy for you. my grandfather needed a document to go from permesso di soggiorno to actual citizenship (like 20 years ago, but it's not like it was much different from how it is now) and had to schedule five appointments back and forth bc this one place kept saying they didn't have it and others told him they definitely did. they said he'd have to fly back to his country and get it there because they were SURE they didn't have it or wait until they could go through every document again. he ended up managing to convince the dude working there to make him look for it and found it within an hour...
also the fact that a lot of places accept you without checking whether you actually have an appointment or not is the reason a lot of people show up in lines/places they shouldn't be in/they should have an appointment for and try it anyway and it's??? so absurd????
@@calinda4003 yep, southern europe does this perfectly - if you schedule an appointment you'll wait like a month and no one will care, but if you just show up, they'll do it in like 15 minutes lmao
As an Italian I 100% feel you, Lily. Burocracy is fucked up here not only for Permesso di Soggiorno, but for literally everything. And wow! You also experienced the notorious italian post offices' efficency!
Hope you're enjoying the food at least :)
Glad things worked themselves out in the end. I enjoy watching videos of your everyday life experiences. I moved to France a few years back and now to Sweden and I had similar experiences with bureaucracy in both countries. I think it is combination of incompetence and malevolence.
As an Australian who moved to Italy it took me almost a year to get the correct residency permit. I feel you love the process destroys you
In so sorry on behalf of my country xD but then again, you should be proud of being fully integrated and having had the full Italian experience.
I feel like i've passed some kind of initiation or something 😂
Yep, can confirm: it's a f-ing shitshow!
Similar thing with me. Moved from Australia to Croatia, it's extremely difficult and confusing to do any paper work. In Australia they basically treat you like a 5 year old, anyone can get it done. In the Mediterranean you need to be a lawyer to understand anything.
Croatian here - my dad has to call an accountant to understand how student scholarships work (which are not supposed to be even complicated) and sometimes even a professional accountant has trouble understanding them. what a mess, every time I see the demands for the paperwork, I have to stop and think is this free money worth it??
At least the wack ass upload times fit your time zone now hahaha
hahaha true
Italian government: why is everyone leaving our country? :(
Also Italian government: lol you want what? a functional bureaucracy? better look elsewhere
Lmaoo this is probably why there's so many italians living in Australia
My family is Italian and that’s what I was gonna say 🤣🤣
Lily posts literally anything and I click 👏
This video was slightly chaotic and I appreciated it. Great info!
I loveeee the Italy shit! Please don’t stop your vlog type videos
such adulting 😩 gorl I'm getting stressed just hearing about this. what a long ting.
My god, I am literally going through the same thing here in Italy. For me, it was even worse since on top of that process I had to fuck with university and scholarship bureaucracy. Nobody knows what there doing and they are constantly transferring responsibility to someone else. It's a never-ending agony. You should stop emotionally investing in it, just try to resolve everything technically. Stay strong :D
Basically trying to get permit A38 from that Asterix movie xD
"...there's definitely room to put it on here." Oh my god you're on the cusp of bursting into flames. (But thank god it's completed, congrats!)
Going though the same procedure now, I literally can feel your pain🤧.
Btw thanks for the blog link!
When you were messinig with your hair in that D E S T I N Y shirt, I read it as "L Stiny" and thought it was an endearing nickname for Goosebumps' RL Stine. Oh god 😂😂😂
I'm really glad that I'm an EU citizen and don't need any permits when I want to move to another EU country
It's soooooo frustrating I've been here for 1 year and already applied 3 times for the permit, so expensive and exhausting!
omg i frikken relate, ahaha literally went through the same thing, suuch a nightmare. Glad you finally sorted it out!
Hahah it's times like this that make me really appreciate how Australia functions lol
Honestly, I’m here for the life updates. Don’t stress about the book content yet, we’re still enjoying this 😊
don't stop posting the everyday life/Italy stuff! def into it :)
👋🏽 from a kiwi in LA
this is dangerous information for me to learn because i'm literally one stressful situation from dropping everything and moving to italy under a new identity
I am so glad I didnt have to do this for my semester in Ital since I am an European citizen, but I had to go and get a tax number so I could rent an apartment and I am so glad my landlords went with me because otherwise it would have been a nightmare :D
I went through this too, when studying abroad Milan!
Omg I got an ad for spaghetti while watching this
Name a better duo, i'll wait
"excuse me I'm the one who understood wrong" he's so polite?? I don't think even Canadians are that nice on the phone 😂
Also Lily's a total vibe as always 👌🏻
We love the Italy content!
Lily is a premiere booktuber. She's very sophisticated. I can't wait to see what material she creates in the future.
I'm about to go through all this so this was super helpful. Its nice to know in the meantime for the appointment I guess I can just go fuck off for now. I'm also in milano!
Oh well good luck with it all hahha. Book an appointment at the questura, bring photocopies of everything. and make sure you pay the Marca da bollo & the permit fee (at the post office) BEFORE you turn up at your appointment so it can lodged on the day - otherwise you'll have to rebook
@@LilyCReads10 what did you select as your option for the service needed on the appointment booker website? The options are terrible
Very illuminating and entertaining.
drop the just rolled out of bed skincare routine you are glowing
Imagine living in Italy for 12 years and having to renew it every. f-ing. year. Also, for 2, TWO, consecutive years I risked not being able to take my exams at university because it took them 10, TEN months to give me the freaking plastic thingy.
I would just evict myself from the country and save them the trouble. 😂Italy's not even trying to be subtle about ruining your life
@@LilyCReads10 you’re right honestly hahaha the thing is that my family is here too and the country I was born in (Albania) maybe is even worse 😫 anyways, i recently discovered your channel and I really love your videos!! Keep it up 💪😘
First of all; love the new style of videos you are putting out and second of all fuuuuu bureaucracy been dealing with German authorities and bruh to keep things short I feel your pain!! But Why? Has been my question all year hahah still: congrats!!! 🍾🎊 start of a new chapter and I can’t wait to see you tell it! X
I WAS thinking of immigrating on my own to Italy but this has made me think twice hahahaha
OMG I lived in italy for a year and a half. I completely feel you. Their burocracy is full of crap.
They're making you jump through more hoops than a circus lion. Your anger is 100% valid.
Sounds just about as difficult as my German experience
This kind of bullshit is everywhere, with government, when you are applying for a new job etc. There are always surprise “extra documents” at the end, or the last process to your “quick online job application” is actually a small essay.
But you would never go through that much bullshit when you are trying to buy something on Amazon. It takes 1 seconds to click on “buy now” and they don’t even ask for confirmation, your money is already taken, no refund or regret allowed.
Burocracy in Spain is the same!!! I feel you! 6 weeks for a driving permit!
Omg. Omg I relate so hard. Just today I have been to the Questura, the Ufficio Immigrazione, the Anagrafe - I CANNOT. Not one single person apparently knows anything about the permesso di soggiorno. I am losing my mind. God bless you for making me laugh about this shit because I sweeaaar I am this close to screaming in a public building.
I live in Italy too! And this year i waited ONE YEAR to get my permesso di soggiorno on my hands i understand perfectly your situation😅😅
this bureaucracy stuff is a nightmare everywhere, I cannot imagine how it must be during covid. I have lived in three countries, spent a semester abroad and every now and then there have been utter nightmare moments where you just think "country/city xyz, get your sh*t together so that I can get my sh*t together, ok?" in my experience, it has only worked out smoothly in Austria (love love love). there is nothing you can do, when the countries are not organised, at least the deadlines are also not taken dead seriously if you cannot stick to them - at least in my experience.
Oh man, what a mess... But I`m glad it all got sorted out now :)
adding this to my funny shit playlist.
I studied abroad in Italy, the visa process really is just... something else
sounds as exhausting as getting anything in germany hahah
This is not an Italy problem, this is a Europe problem, bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy... I'm moving back to Germany after 3 years in Saudi and the amount of paperwork they want, and explanations not to mention I have to pay taxes ON MY OWN BELONGINGS I'm bringing back with me - which by the way I had to write up detailed lists and costs for...etc etc. Anyone reading this, this is an aspect of Socialism people like to ignore. Oh and what Lily said is true, people won't lift a finger to help you, even for something as small as a stamp, the answer is always "that's not my department". Can't wait to leave Germany again.
I wouldn't agree for France , the bureaucracy is incomparable with the italian one.
As an aust who’s moved here you have expressed everything we are socially too old to say .. do you have a Patreon type thing .. you ate a breath of fresh air in millennial content good luck with it x
Honestly laughed out loud sorry for ur experience but a great laugh lol
Ah ! Our amazing burocracy! Sorry you went through it, it's honestly the same for us citiziens... It's a mess
Welcome to the foreigner/inmigrant experience, please continue with the italy videos are great
Thailand and Italy must have shared notes on how to establish and run their bureaucracy, though I think Italy may be a touch worse. My condolences.
What was the code for working holiday visa??! I've looked everywhere!
Hi! Tysm for sharing this experience. I am about to do the same in 2 months...Any chance you remember what the code was? I feel like mine will be the same and praying I don't have this same issue! Thank you!
I loved this. I'm currently going through this experience thanks to the UK deciding to leave the EU...it is exhausting 🤦🏼
Bloody hilarious and informative thank you
girl not bureaucracy. all the hidden fees too like nah.
03:08 oh, honey, you haven't seen the real bureaucracy mess aka the Balkan 🤣 and welcome to the YMOP (you're missing one paper) situation
this video gave me PTSD flasbacks to when I was applying for a student home; you literally had to take out like 50 different documents, spend like a month collecting them, most of which didn't even make sense, and then when I sent it, got a reply I forgot to include a small piece of paper with my social security number and that is why I was denied. Nevermind that the exact effing number was included in at least ten different documents I sent, but no. What a joke.
"general bullshit and shenanigans" rly summin up 2020 here
This was me applying for my study abroad where I couldn't complete a certain section because no one knew anything about the visa options that would be available to me, then when I FINALLY got the info it opened up another box of info I needed to fill out, which opened up ANOTHER box etc. etc.
And it was all "for nothing" since the exchange ended up being cancelled due to Covid. But at least I kinda know how it works now. Can't wait to do it all over again in not long so I maybe can go in 2022 instead. *displeased noises*
Hi i'm new here. But as a foreigner living in france and had to deal with the french bureaucracy, allow me to express my sympathy because i can COMPLETELY relate to this video. It's the same shit up here and i struggled a lot as well 😂
Omg im so sorry but im dying especially at that man with the stamp and the photocopier😂
Funny thing is everytime i be able to get done with paperwork and all those shitty buraeucracy stuff like this, i always ended up with the "yass i'm the strongest bitch ever" feeling 😂
Things about public services in Italy you need to know: No one will ever photocopy your stuff, because they are constantly running low on office supplies like ink. They don;t have the budget to photocopy everyone's original paperwork. Good luck with the bureaucracy!
To break a lance in favour of italian burocracy. You asked a "permesso di soggiorno per vacanze lavoro" (work vacation residency permit) a type of residency permit that exist only for countries outside the EU who accepted a bilateral agreement with italy granting the same rights to italian in their countries 4 in total. This permit is reserved for people under 30. So it's a rare permit that exists only for a total of 4000 people from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and south Korea. Not even the 0,1% of the 5,2 milion foreigners ( persons without italian citizenships) that lives in italy request that permit.
If you ask the permesso di soggiorno for the first time you have to go to Questura principale witch is the immigrazione centr . You will present all your documents all the photo copies.
But watch out when you renewal the permesso di soggiorno you will have to go to police station near of your residence.
Note: take the appointment form post office attached all the documents before two months of your psd getting expire .
In finally Benvenuta nell democrazia italiana. :)
This reminds me of Damon Dominique and his struggles in France hahaha
I enjoyed your story.
I commend you for doing this cause my dumbass would’ve gotten deported lol I’m the type of girl that needs a thorough walk through. I would love to do it though
Haha! Moved to Australia and the UK...omg the crap needed to prove you’re a person is insane when international ID doesn’t count as ID
I live in Greece and the bureaucracy is pretty much the same, if not worse...You need all the stupid stamps and stickers for everything! Thank god corona happened so certain services decided to go online...
LMFAOOOO as an Italian I am so sorry you experienced it,our paperworks are insane. No one know anything about any problem, the information they give to you are not complete and they refer to you elsewhere every time without explanation, there’s always something up that come right after you make a step onward. It’s a joke
Hey, great video. Quick one - the both guides you posted says, only fill 1st module if it's your first Permesso di Soggiorno. Is it true even if I'm employed in Italy by the UN? Seems no one knows anything, I tried the questura, lawyers all seem useless. They just can't tell you simple and straight answer. If you know any good lawyer, then can you share his/her details? I got a visa type D (mission) which is valid until next year but I'm planning to resign from my job next month. So, figuring out a way to extend my stay here. Any tip/advice would be appreciated! Thanks much