Getting paperwork done in a 3rd world country: A Tolkien worthy odyssey

That's the response I get whenever I discuss my current situation´with someone from my country. And the´re not kidding, for the kind of legal process and the paperwork required, some people take decades and sometimes they don´t even finish the process.

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A few months ago I was happy drinking a beer with @heiditravels, @nomadnessie, @gargon, @pgarcgo @juanmiguelsalas and many more, I think @lukestokes was also there. I was in Lisbon, having dinner by the beach with my new friends when I got a message from my motherland telling me I should come back because my legal paperwork was almost done and I had to come back to sign papers and do the final process.

This was in November 2017.

Today is May 18th and I still haven´t finished.

I had never been to Europe and I had to come back much more earlier than what I was planning. In Februrary I had in my mindto go to the US to visit some friends and I couldn´t do it because i had to be around my country in case I was needed. I wanted to go to Germany in February to visit a person I hold dear and I wasn´t able to. I missed the London cryptcurrency show a few weeks ago. I missed a content creators event in Las Vegas. I missed several meetups, including one happening right now in North-eastern Europe. I wanted to go to Cuba a few days ago because I got a very sweet deal and in the end I ended up doing none of those things I wanted.

I am sick of missing things because paperwork in 3rd world countries takes too much time, too much money and any drop of faith in the system you might have.

Whenever I get into conversations with my 1st world friends, mostly from Northern Europe, they complain about first world problems like weather or taxes. Then I tell them my whole situation and the reasons behind them - which I can´t discuss on the blockchain or my government might take me as traitor or whatever excuse they can think of - they immediately become grateful and they start valuing their own country.

I know one thing for sure, when I finish this paperwork I´m leaving this country and I am not sure I´ll ever come back to live here - I might come back to visit family once in a while, but I am sure as hell 95% of chances I won´t live here anymore.

_{This is the whole file I've gathered over the years to finish the process. Yeah, legal tramits in Mexico are dealt with in paper, not digitally.}

So, my 3rd world friends, I know a lot of you read my posts, why don´t you tell me here on the comments what´s the worse thing you´ve had to deal with in your 3rd world country?

My 1st world friends, read the comments here, after that I´m sure you´ll stop taking things for granted.