I swear this is the longest two months in my life. If you followed my blog a bit, you probably read that I got a job offer in Malta as a skilled worker, I got a work permit, but not the visa because my country is classified as Dark Red country. My employer's HR doesn't seem able to navigate this complexities, so I took over the process and confront the visa authorities myself. After a one month exchanging emails between the visa authority and the department of health, finally I got authorized to start my long stay visa in Malta. I need to send my documents to Beijing as there is no maltese embassy. Malta is still happening for me, at least...
However, the whole fiasco happened because miscommunication. You see, Malta is currently banning all travels from Dark Red countries, which means I couldn't fly directly from my country to Malta. The visa authority seems misunderstood my request, they thought I was asking to authorize direct travels from my country to Malta, which is not the case. I told them I completely understand that I need to stay in Red Country for 14 days before entering Malta, but to do that I need a long stay visa as my passport doesn't have schengen visa waiver duhhhhhh.
Guess what? 3 days later, I got authorized to start my visa application. What the heck??? All this delay was because of semantic? Dear gods...
Anyway, my employer seems impatient with the process, so it seems I will resign next month, and start working remotely in the Netherlands until I arrived in Malta, and could exchange my work permit to residence permit.
I am so tired with my situation, and many times, I almost wanted to stop, but I told myself, what would my future self tell me now? Thank goodness I gave up for the life I will have?
I also happened to discover this beautiful music video from Yukika. Basically the singer met her past self and encourage her past self to push her dream to become a singer, and then I told myself, I cannot give up just now if I want to escape my covid-ravaged country
However, the whole fiasco happened because miscommunication. You see, Malta is currently banning all travels from Dark Red countries, which means I couldn't fly directly from my country to Malta. The visa authority seems misunderstood my request, they thought I was asking to authorize direct travels from my country to Malta, which is not the case. I told them I completely understand that I need to stay in Red Country for 14 days before entering Malta, but to do that I need a long stay visa as my passport doesn't have schengen visa waiver duhhhhhh.
Guess what? 3 days later, I got authorized to start my visa application. What the heck??? All this delay was because of semantic? Dear gods...
Anyway, my employer seems impatient with the process, so it seems I will resign next month, and start working remotely in the Netherlands until I arrived in Malta, and could exchange my work permit to residence permit.
I am so tired with my situation, and many times, I almost wanted to stop, but I told myself, what would my future self tell me now? Thank goodness I gave up for the life I will have?
I also happened to discover this beautiful music video from Yukika. Basically the singer met her past self and encourage her past self to push her dream to become a singer, and then I told myself, I cannot give up just now if I want to escape my covid-ravaged country
