The joys of form filling

It's that time again. Time to reapply for our residency. Sigh....Double sigh. Last year we had been very lucky to have the secretary at Greg's work helping us out, ringing the right people, razzing the other people etc... But this year we were on our own as the secretary had left and there was no replacement.

Greg spent weeks trying to catch the top guy at his job, to fill in our form and give it the literal stamp of approval. Weeks of walking up many flights of stairs, crossing over to the right building only to find, an empty office.

Whilst Greg was in Czechoslavaki, this lovely job was delegated to me. Only I was in luck. Not only was the office not empty but there was a secretary/administrator in the seat. Yay. i still had to come back a few times and not all the form had been filled in, they weren't sure what to right on one of the lines etc.... Only to find out, that we didn't need any stamps, signatures or what not. All that was needed was to put an "X" in the right box. Ugh!

Hopefully, now that we've done it twice, we'll know what to do next year. What's the odds they'll use new and improved and even less understandable forms next year?