Comments by "Living Ironically in Europe" (@LivingIronicallyinEurope) on "EU Bureaucracy Surprised Me (not in a good way)" video.

  1. My process was relatively straight forward. After applying for HU citizenship got it in around 7 months after going to the consulate & doing the interview. However, moving to Romania was a pain in the a**. Basically, even though I'm an EU citizen you still technically need to apply for residency as a way of "decency" & "being registered somewhere". However, the problem is, the immigration office is in the center of a mall and only works 1 day a week, while others are others who got an appointment. So each week people would come a day earlier to sleep over at the mall to get in line, because only 20 people would be seen a day max. Meanwhile the line would sometimes have 50-80+. So people would get in fights over some people thinking that they can just sign their name on a piece of paper & then leave, meanwhile tens were waiting since the other day literally sleeping over. For months I just wouldn't even go cause the line was too long. However, one day I just decided to push through, wait for hours, argue with people about my place in line, almost get in a physical fight with a Moldovan who was cutting, and got my residency after more or less a year. Fiance once spent the night over at the mall, was 1st in line, only for the immigration service to say "we'll no longer be acknowledging people in the line & who've slept over, but those who are the closest to their visas expiring". To hell with Iulius mall, and to hell with Cluj's immigration service
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