Time appeared to fully describe the whole situation with passport (Patreon)
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It seems that everyone already understood that Germany did not go very well for me and I decided to leave there. I collected information for more than a month and decided where to go and finally decided. So, let's immediately answer the question "Why I don't want to say what country I live in", the answer is very obvious, less information about me will be much better. My biggest mistake was to say that I lived in Germany, because the country gave me a lot of negativity, and you wanted at least some information from me, and it was only negative. Practically for this reason, I really did not want to be social, so as not to pour out my negativity once again.
And so, when leaving Germany, I had to go to the immigration office to submit documents that I would no longer live in this country. When I was there, I asked “Will my German passport work or do I need to hand it in?”, to which I received the answer “It will work for six months, if you want to return back.” I pointed out that the German passport was not with me because I lost it at home, but when I leave I will find it. To which the worker ran to do something, but told me to wait. He returned with some paper, and at that moment, I thought it was some kind of exit statement. And at that moment all the problems ended as I left the country.
And we teleport for 2 months. It's my birthday soon and I'm being given a trip to Ireland as a present. No one knew that Ireland is not in the Schengen zone and therefore I need to go through control. For me, as a Ukrainian, nowhere is allowed, so I'm already used to interrogations. But I was definitely not ready for what happened. At the border, they told me “You have some kind of problem with your passport. We see that you have some kind of problem on the German side. You either lost your German passport or something.” I explained that might be possible, but I will fly back in 3 days, and I will solve all the problems there. I was missed. When I was on the Irish side, the policeman also saw the mistake, but he stamped the entry and let me in. Until the moment of departure, everything was in order and there were no problems, but I am writing this story for a reason. I was going through control at the border to Europe and the person who checked the passport called the police, and they took away my Ukrainian foreign passport for verification. At that moment, I felt that something very bad was coming. At that time it was 2 pm, Friday (and this is very important). While the passport was being checked, I decided to call the immigration office and find out about this problem. But you know what? And in Germany, a shortened day and they work on Friday until one in the afternoon and then close completely.
After standing for 2 hours on the other side at the airport, I began to get very worried. There was no sign that I might be deported, but something bad is definitely happening. After some time, a policeman comes out of his room and says to me, “Didn’t you write a statement about the loss of your Ukrainian passport? We have in the database that your passport was lost and we are forced to take it away". Since I was very tired after the trip and standing on my feet all the time, I couldn’t really influence anything and I simply didn’t have the strength to swear. I was given a paper, which indicated that the passport is being checked and should be returned if everything is fine. However, after all (as the policeman said) it was written specifically for me to physically allegedly refuse the passport. When I returned home, I began to actively look for the right solution, because another trip should take place in a week. Nothing much can be decided on the weekend, but I tried to contact all my acquaintances who could give me at least a little hint of what to do. I was in a bit of a hurry because even before my trip to Ireland, I bought tickets to Turkey as a gift, which should take place a week after my passport was taken from me.
Monday, I start actively calling absolutely everyone in order to advance my problem somehow. My call to Germany was like, “Hello, I have a problem. - Ok, we will check your information and call you the next business day, which will be on Wednesday, we have Tuesday off". I was just in such shock that I did not understand at all what was happening. I was confused and angry at the same time. I started yelling into the phone for them to somehow start working. I was so fed up with this country's indifference and unwillingness to help that I wanted to take a Molotov cocktail and throw it into the building where all these employees work. I just don't understand how they can apply without my signature; How can I apply without the knowledge of the Ukrainian embassy? Everyone told me that it was impossible, and some kind of error in the system happened. It makes no sense to threaten, I am a very small person and Germany loves the courts, everything will definitely be against me. Now describing the whole story makes me angry, but remembering how everything really happened, I did everything too decisively. I called the Ukrainian embassy to be informed, but there I received only the following answer: “We don’t have your passport, and we don’t work with this.” I've been knocked over from both sides, and I'm just in a hopeless situation. I don't know what to do or what next steps to take.
In the late afternoon, I got called from Germany (apparently I shouted at them quite loudly) and said “Yes, we really see your problem. We're sorry, we've fixed it." And then I got completely lost. They just ticked the “no lost anymore” and that’s it? How can such a statement be removed so quickly, and most importantly, how? Even though they admitted their mistake, it didn't change much. “- But what should I do next? - I don’t know, I did my best”
On the evening of the same day, I went to the airport thinking, “Well, since they really removed the application, even though I don’t have any evidence, maybe I have at least some chance to pick up my passport.” I called a border police officer and started a dialogue with him. And here was the same situation as on the phone. At first, no one wanted to help, but as I began to persistently ask questions, I forced him to start checking where my passport was and whether it was even possible to return it. Of course, the boss, who argued with me for a very long time, got involved very quickly and efficiently. The biggest problem is that no one could give any guarantees and everyone sent me in different directions. Although I found out that my passport was at the airport, it didn’t give me anything, since they don’t even understand when they will be sent to the Ukrainian embassy.
The next day I went to the Ukrainian embassy and tried to get through to a consultation. To my surprise, only 4 people worked for the entire building, of which one was a security guard and one courier. As usual, there were a lot of people and everyone was recorded by appointment, but I managed to get inside the building saying that I had an emergency. Inside, I waited for all the people to pass and began to ask about my situation. It can be seen that the woman was very tired, but she answered very rudely, “How can I help you? You don't see how much work I have here, and you came with your problem. If Europol took your passport, then it automatically goes to Ukraine, where it is liquidated as non-working. You can only go to Ukraine and challenge it all.” After her answer, a security guard came up and said they were closing.
Only a couple of days left before my trip, and I have only a lot of problems.
I wrote this text more than once and it was a little difficult for me, so I will probably break it into 2 parts.