[beAbU]

I recently moved to the EU from Africa.

It took me like 10 minutes online get myself set up for tax, and to get the correct tax credits applied to my profile. My next payslip had all the right deductions and refunds in place with zero fuss.

Getting my foreign marriage registered for joint tax assessments was like 5 minutes online.

Getting my foreign drivers license exchanged for a local one was a quick online application and an in person visit where they verified my documents. Everything after that was electronic.

Your glasses must be extra rose couloured if you think that the paper-based Vorgon-inspired hellhole that is/was bureaucratic government internal affairs of the 90s is in any way better than what we have today.

[IewaH]

Good that it worked out for you. Now try to register an apartment in Berlin or get a new id card.

Nothing like being lectured from an immigrant or long term expat from Africa how the state of one's own country was in 1990 and now.

[jazzyjackson]

Rude