- Canadians can only stay 90 days in any 6 month period in the Schengen zone, which includes Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, etc.
- we were here in the Schengen zone for 7 months, so Christopher needed permission to stay;
- to get this, we were told by the Italian consulate in Vancouver that it would be a simple task to drop into the local police station and ask for the permit;
- we discovered that it is far from simple and spent many days trying to collect paper work, getting translations, mailing and worrying;
- we were finally able to get an appointment for submitting our paper work on the 21st of September.
We were able to provide the paper work asked for this past Monday in Partinico. In return, Christopher received a piece of paper with his photo stapled to it, and a few ink stamps applied that is a sort of provisional permission. He has to perfect it by providing his fingerprints, and another photo and by a senior Italian Questura official putting their seal on the paperwork.
Today, we go to Palermo for Christopher to get fingerprints.
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