the government agency responsible for immigration is asking my wife for the same set of documents we already sent a year ago. my suspicion is that they lost a bunch of documents when they were moving the stack of paper across the country at least twice. this includes sensitive medical information. big government is failing left and right and i start to fancy lean government and simplification of laws and regulations. even if it hurts a little. less is better.
now this paperwork drama starts all over again. over 400 days of them doing nothing only to then ask for the same documents again. unreal. absolutely unreal.
1 month ago
sounds like a pain. Document everything, including interactions where they ask for things they've already given. I've gotten agencies to apologize and retract requests by saying "I sent that already on xx/yy/zz date, here's documentation of the information being sent" etc etc. Idk if that's possible in your situation though. Most of the time bureaucracies are just a lot of incompetent people who feel bossy because they're behind the desk. If you can put the ball back in their court without embarassing them publicly, the issues generally stay away from you. 路 1 month ago
@drh3xx that sounds a bit like a stretch. would prefer to not be imprisoned, no matter the compensation. in that sense i have a will to live free, even though the free will remaining a debated topic. 路 1 month ago
@danrl it would be interesting though I'd be more inclined to attempt the argument that free will doesn't exists and legal responsibility for your actions is all predicated on free will been a thing that means you made a choice under your control to commit whatever offence. If you could win they'd either have to let you off or prosecute but provide suitable monetary compensation for unlawful imprisonment. 路 1 month ago
@drh3xx you make an interesting point here which made me think: could it be a valid legal defense of saying that it was impossible to know all the regulations because one can proof they don鈥檛 really fit into a single human brain, either size wise or complexity wise? that would be a fun argument and i wonder what the response would be? 路 1 month ago
Hope you get sorted soon and don't get asked for documents a third time.
Eugh governments/law makers! Definitely agree there should generally be work toward simpler and more sparse legislation. Not knowing you were breaking the law is not a legal defense in most cases. But, show me ANY legal professional who legitimately knows every current law within all areas of law for even their own locality let alone nationally and internationally (since there is now plenty of extra territorial legislation). That is a ridiculous situation to be in. 路 1 month ago