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“A shame for the city”: Desperate residents of Stuttgart wait six hours in front of the Citizens’ Registration Office

2022-08-04T08:54:48.317Z


“A shame for the city”: Desperate residents of Stuttgart wait six hours in front of the Citizens’ Registration Office Created: 08/04/2022, 10:45 am By: Nadja Pohr On Tuesday afternoon (August 2nd), the line in front of the Stuttgart-Mitte citizens' office was still manageable - but there were also significantly longer waiting times © BW24/Nadja Pohr If you have to go to the citizens' office in


“A shame for the city”: Desperate residents of Stuttgart wait six hours in front of the Citizens’ Registration Office

Created: 08/04/2022, 10:45 am

By: Nadja Pohr

On Tuesday afternoon (August 2nd), the line in front of the Stuttgart-Mitte citizens' office was still manageable - but there were also significantly longer waiting times © BW24/Nadja Pohr

If you have to go to the citizens' office in Stuttgart-Mitte, you should set an alarm clock: If you want to be guaranteed your turn, you have to get up early.

Long queues can be found here every day.

Stuttgart - A visit to the citizens' office in the state capital of Stuttgart is currently a real struggle.

Far leading, long queues extend in front of the office in Stuttgart-Mitte.

If you want to make applications, change your registration or apply for an ID card, you have to be prepared to wait many hours.

It can take up to six hours to be able to clarify your request - but there is no guarantee that it will be your turn, as

BW24

reports.

“Out of the question”: Out of desperation, citizens put up with hours of waiting

At 8.30 a.m. the Citizens' Office opens its doors.

But anyone who thinks it is enough to be there a few minutes earlier will be disappointed.

Even those who queue up two hours earlier are usually turned away, as reported by the

picture

.

Out of desperation, a man from Stuttgart stood in front of the citizens' office in the city center at 2 a.m. so that he could definitely apply for a residence permit for his Turkish father.

“I am very tired now and my legs hurt.

But I had no other choice," he told

Bild

.

Another citizen describes that she has already stood in front of the office 24 times and written 184 e-mails to have an ID card replaced.

"So far everything has been in vain, I'm desperate," she says.

The politicians in Stuttgart know about the long waiting times in front of the citizens' offices.

"That is out of the question, a shame for Stuttgart," says Andreas Kotz, CDU parliamentary group leader.

"Order Mayor Clemens Maier must now quickly ensure that staff from other offices help out in the Citizens' Office."

Civic offices in Stuttgart have been struggling with staff shortages for a long time

Many cases of illness due to Corona and more work due to refugees from Ukraine are noticeable in the offices in Stuttgart.

The citizens' offices in Stuttgart have therefore been struggling with staff shortages for a long time.

Every fourth position in the offices in the region is vacant, as reported by the

SWR

.

In Stuttgart-West, for example, the citizens' office is completely closed, which is why the rush is higher in the city center.

Andreas Kotz also demands: If you make the citizens of the state capital of Baden-Württemberg wait, then you can at least provide them with small things.

Chairs, sun protection, a bottle of water or a scoop of ice cream will certainly make the wait more pleasant.

"We applied for this in the municipal council, but the inertia of the administration has prevented it so far," Kotz concludes.

Stuttgart's head of public order, Dorothea Koller, expects the situation to improve after the summer holidays.

Source: merkur

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