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| Foreigners sleep in front of office |
| Bratislava, 03.10.2014 |
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| Lines in front of Bratislava’s Office of the Border and Alien Police were so long in September that people would arrive a full 15 hours before business hours – some sleeping on the street.
“I do not think it is normal to wait here for such a long time,” Sawinee, a woman from Thailand living in Slovakia, told the public broadcaster STV on September 29. “We have to go to work and we cannot afford to spend such amounts of time here.”
Moreover, foreigners complain that students sometimes come early to wait for appointment cards issued by the office and then sell them for around €80, and claim that even police officers sell the cards, according to the Sme daily.
Police claim that people have started arriving at Petržalka’s office earlier since the beginning of September because of an increase in the number of people seeking temporary residence in Slovakia for student, business or personal activities. In the past, people arrived just one hour before the office opened, according to Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák, Sme reported on September 30.
“When they now come at midnight to [reach the officers] at 8:00, it almost resembles waiting for an iPhone,” Kaliňák said, as quoted by Sme.
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