Today’s deck is The Weird Cat Tarot.
Very colorful, very nice. Do make sure to get a legit one instead of this pirated copy though.
Today’s reading tells of the release from bureaucratical bullshit, which you’ll understand shortly.
So the nonsense with my bank is over… sorta, kinda, not quite, not yet…
Uh… let’s take it from the top.
This all starts in December of last year (yes, really). At that point the bank asked me for some stuff, but so did Every Other Institution Ever and my brain kinda shut down and I decided to deal with it later.
So I resume the stuff in January where they ask for some company documents, no problems there; and then by February they wanted copies of my passports, a few problems there.
I have dual nationality thanks to my Grandpa (dad’s dad) and needless to say I owe that passport so much because fucking Hell, as you’ll see being Venezuelan feels like a curse sometimes.
This last point is relevant because I didn’t have any real reason to update my Venezuelan passport meaning it’s been expired since 2022, so on top of the other passport I was gonna renew anyways I had to deal with Venezuelan stuff.
I was in Tokyo in March (I remember because it was before the Sakura season and a few plum trees already flowered) to hang out with a friend and I figured fuck it, let’s make an appointment at the Venezuelan embassy and do the other one also.
…the other didn’t happen because between 2020 when I last renewed it and now they started needing an appointment but I did end up requesting the renewal for the Venezuelan one regardless.
It is now May (and I remember this because it was after Sakura season) and I get the appointment for the other passport very suddenly prompting a daytrip to Tokyo.
All the while this is happening, by the way, the bank is sending update requests weekly, so it’s always in my mind.
May is also when my card company started acting up, with the money just not arriving sometimes and the flow of money becoming erratic suddenly. This wouldn’t be helped by the fact that come June the bank would start blocking my own account because their policy is that if paperwork isn’t handed after a certain amount of time they’ll block it as much as an incentive as a precaution (in case the person goes MIA and such).
At this point I reluctantly take the punishment because hey, wait or no wait, I did sandbag with a few of the things, whatever.
July happens, I get my passport, now they want it certified, I had to go to a lawyer and pay like 10.000 yen for that shit… then the account gets blocked again from another missing document, a document I sent earlier and while it was older I went “hey, it’s older, is it okay or do you need a new one?” and never heard back.
That gets solved and now they’re asking me for online certification, they wanted me to get in on some app, verify my identity with my passport to sign some documents and they’re blocking the account because of the absence of this but the system kept failing!
First it was that they blocked my login attempt because the number wasn’t European. Then I can login but it tells me access denied I don’t have permissions, so I have to wait more time for them to send me a link that works and when they do my application gets rejected and this is the current stage of the tale.
My bank account has been locked since the end of August, my applications for the registry or whatever the fuck kept being rejected, one link expires and now we repeat the process of “you don’t have permissions”.
Cut to today. I’m at my limit, eating into my savings, using money I shouldn’t be using to pay for the things I should be able to pay for. Then in the mail my residence card and other passport come back from my visa application.
I figure, fuck it, I’ve tried every permutation of OS and whatnot, let’s try using this passport.
It doesn’t get rejected… but it’s not working hours so I’m left in suspense.
I try to go through the day with my mind away from it. I even walk to my Japanese lesson ’cause hey the weather’s nice.
As soon as I go out of my Japanese lesson I check and the registry finally got approved.
The release of tension turns my legs and back into jelly.
There’s not much I can do until the bank opened at like 5PM or so anyways so I stop by McDonald’s on the way back and I finally do the damn digital signature nonsense.
It is done.
I’ve been dealing with this specific nonsense for ALMOST ONE YEAR and by this point the amount of bullshit that didn’t come from me having other things to handle outweighed the rest. Not to mention that once again, it’s like being a Venezuelan is a branding I cannot get rid of and keeps causing me trouble somehow.
Did they unblock the account? Consider everything else I’ve said, did you really think they would be the kind to unblock as fast as they block? I just went to bed resigned that despite the effort I would spend the weekend with the account still blocked.
What else happened in the day? Dunno man, I’ll tell you when my legs become solid again.