Residency and bureaucracy.

I'm going to try to apply for residency tomorrow.  That should be interesting. Jordanian bureaucracy is kinda a joke.  Like, CIEE has spent weeks trying to get our residencies, then the gov't finally said ok, all you need is this 1,2,3... so we all go to the police station and they process everything and its seems great.

I mean, a few weeks ago, we were bussed in giant groups to a police station with all sorts of paper work, proving we live here, we attend school, we have our passports, visas, ect.... we sit around for hours on end waiting for it all to get done.  Finally we get in to be seen by the one lady who is typing something and looking at our passports. 

She takes a look, makes a show of it, writes somethings down, moves to the next, then its my turn, and these random Egyptian guys get to just cut in front of me and be seen by her.  WTH?  Ok. Ok.  Then she takes my passport, and as its in her hand, another batch of Egyptians come in and cut me!  Humph!

Then, I get ok-ed.  And the 2 kids after me get shown out without her really going over their passports. Why? She just needs to see they exist as people. OOOOOOOOOOoooKKK.

Then 3 days later they decided nope, actually, we needed them to all be fingerprinted, too.  So no residencies. There's no actual rules, its all whims and changes daily.

And might I point out CIEE does this every semester? Why are there no set rules for foreigners and residency?

 So we're gonna try again.  Its just to make life a little bit easier. So as we travel we don't need to purchase visas or since we are here longer than we are allowed, we dont have to pay the fee for overstaying our visas. Plus its an adventure.

The visa I did purchase is a 3 month visa.  But its only good for one month of residency at a time.  So I basically can only live in Jordan for 30 days at a time, then I have to leave and return.  But its good for the whole 3 months.  (And only because CIEE did get that part cleared.) But since I'm studying for 3 and a half months, I will overstay my visa.  This is a fee of like a dinar and a half a day. Not crazy. But also, since I'm traveling to Beirut and Egypt  in the next month, there's other logistics involved in the visa and we might need to purchases another one. So this will hopefully make life easier.

Maybe. Cross your fingers.