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[Benjamin]

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Dear Editor,

I would like to bring to the attention of the readers the incompetence and the utter disrespect with which its civil servants and namely the employees of the Galway registration offices are treating the people who come to apply for Irish registration.

I am Russian and I moved to Galway 10 years ago when my dad was invited by a software developing company to work for them here.

We pay taxes and are law abiding citizens and yet every year when we come to extend our visa we are treated like dirt and come out of the office feeling like we had to beg to be granted the privilege to stay and work for the Irish economy for one more year.

What happened this year made me lose my patience — I know how many people were put in the same situation as me and I can't keep silent any longer.

This year I wanted to get a five-year registration as a daughter of an Irish citizen instead of a yearly student visa and I was refused it, which results in me having to come back every year and pay ?100 every time instead of only paying it once.

I do not understand why I should pay ?400 more and waste my time every summer going to reapply again and again. When asked on which grounds I was refused the registration as a daughter of an Irish citizen as I am one, the reply I got was "I don't know", unfortunately for me the second official didn't know either.

I was a bit taken aback by such a reply, to my mere suggestion that an official working there should at least know why he is giving me one type of stamp and not the other. Then I was asked if I was calling him stupid.

Now I was brought up with a lot of respect for my elders and I wouldn't even dream of calling anyone stupid but his hostility scared me and I agreed that he knows best.

After that I was told to wait for 10 days until they find out which kind of registration stamp they can grant me. My summer plans have been ruined and as an honest person I feel simply uncomfortable being in Ireland without registration and visa.

I have never seen more than three people applying for registration at the same time so I cannot say they are swamped with work.

I feel that if there was one official in the registration office instead of two but who actually knew what he was doing the process of receiving registration would be much more efficient and definitely more pleasant.

Yours,