I was beginning to feel that life in Cyprus involved rather too much paperwork. I've written elsewhere about the need to renew passports every ten years or so. We had a flurry of bureaucracy during Covid, of course, with the need for checking airline regulations, and taking tests with accompanying paperwork to demonstrate that we were Covid-free.
Just last year I wrote about the complicated process of trying to find suitable ID documents to prove that we are who we say we are. Also the need to prove that we are eligible for the national health system here.
Every time we get through another round of documentation, we breathe sighs of relief. Until the next time. Recently we seem to have had a lot of other paperwork to deal with. None of it particularly strenuous or complicated, admittedly, but somehow it feels rather overwhelming when several things come at the same time.
But sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming. A couple of weeks ago I wrote down the things we had to do fairly urgently:
- apply for me to have a UK pension
- validate Richard's existence, for his UK pension
- renew our European health cards
- chase up my ID card, which I applied for in October
