Hound Dog
Oct 16, 2010, 7:17 AM
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Re: [Reefhound] On Transitioning to "Inmigrado" Status
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What possesses people like that? Are they lazy and trying to reduce their workload or do they actually get off on jerking people around? I wonder what she does with all those copies that are not needed?
I can answer that question, RH. I had the misfortune to start my career in banking as a field examiner for a couple of financial institurions´ regulatory agencies - yes, the same agencies that failed to spot the S&L and, later, commercial banking crises coming down the tracks. I particularly like the name of my latter two-bit position; to wit: National Bank Examiner; Comptroller of the Currency; Regional Administrator of National Banks; 12th National Bank Region, San Francisco; Santa Rosa Sub-Region. The job didn´t pay much but, man, what a title. Hell, most of the people with whom I went to high school couldn´t even spell that. It seems that when certain powerless middle class folks get high falutin functionary titles they immediately insert their heads where the sun don´t shine. Some become inrtoxicated with the power of the agency they never imagined having and then the public (or bank officials or whomever is being intimidated) who have to deal with them have hell to pay. Later, when I became a commercial loan officer, I saw the other side of that spectrum and learned the essential lesson that the power that underlies the clown administering same at times creates monsters in shiny light green suits adorned with narrow ties decorated with bacon grease.
I have a theory and that is that this woman charged with receiving the somewhat routine and precisely defined paperwork from foreigners seeking residency status in Mexico, has been there at that desk for eons and, thus, cannot be canned. In the past this may have been no big deal as most visa applicatants in Guadalajara were Spanish speaking immigrants from hispanic countries since INM had a sub-regional office in Chapala that handled a large percentage of foreigners often not conversant in Spanish. Before closure of the Chapala office, this woman could call on her adjacent English speaking colleagues for assistance when confronted with applicants who only spoke English but, now, with the Chapala office out of business, she was suddenly besieged with Lakesiders many of whom spoke no or rudimentary Spanish so she panicked, The solution? Send them off to the information line immediately without so much as an inquiry as to whether or not they spoke Spanish simply based on their visual profiles as "people who appeared to be likely to have an inadequate grasp of the mother tongue". Never mind simply learning how to inquire as to whether or not they speak Spanish before jumping to conclusions.
To make the situation with this particular clerk even worse, she has not bothered to acquaint herself with the requirements for applicants to qualiy for "inmigrado" status. The rules on the computer under the new system as confirmed by the INM information cleck on duty do NOT require proof of income to qualify for inmigrado status and, since applications are no longer sent to Mexico City (a fact they have failed tio communicate with this person), they don´t need extra copies of documents for their Guadalajara duplicate files. They also do not need all fees paid in advance as she demands but I would not mess with that since it´s not worth the hassle.
The thing to remember if, by the luck of the draw you find yourself face-to-face with this inciompetent functionary, is to stand your ground when she tries to shuffle you off to the long and slow-moving information line which will certainly mean that you will have to return another day. You don´t want to have to go back to that hell hole another day if you can help it. Remember the Jean Paul Sartre play No Exit, the premise of which was hell is other people? Well, that´s the INM Guadalajara office on any given morning they are open.
As soon as I get that "inmigrado" card, I´m applying for Mexican citizenship. I tire of being a second class resident in the country I have chosen as my permanent home. I am Alabamian by the accident of birth, I am a resident of Mexico by choice. That should tell you where I stand on these matters.
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Oct 16, 2010, 7:49 AM)
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