In Spain’s so-called public service there is too little accountability and rarely a visible chain of command. Public service in Spain is very much a misnomer. Behind the scenes, faceless nameless persons constantly change rules. There appears to be no way of challenging daft rules and unnecessary questioning. It is an invisible dictatorship. As a consequence one seems to be in Alice in Wonderland.
Russians are encouraged to invest and then denied residencia. Then some pueblo public service idiot decides that applications for NIE numbers, essential to home ownership, can no longer be completed by power-of-attorney. They back-tracked on that. A vehicle ITV considered good in one province is unacceptable to another.
Ukraine is Europe’s biggest country and situated far more centrally to our wonderful continent than is Spain. It is of Christian faith, its culture is wonderful, and it is a highly developed state. My Ukrainian fiancé is rendered speechless by the stupidity, lethargy and inefficiency of Spain’s public services compared to that of her own former Soviet country.
The Spanish government says a non-EU citizen must live (in sin) with her partner before marriage is considered. How do you prove you have been living together for 12 months when a visa lasts just 3 months and residencia is denied? As the Americans say, ‘you can’t fix stupid’.
I just wish there was some way that those who pass these daft regulations were outed and publicly made to explain their reasoning. Nothing else seems to work. Oh for the true democracy of public transparency and accountability. I often wonder how long public servants would last in a competitive commercial environment. Not long.