You certainly have got to have a relaxed approach to sorting out an ID Card in Malta. To be fair it only took five trips to Valletta and hours of waiting! We soon learned to take food, drink, a good book and not forgetting a big chunk of patience.
Everyone who lives in Malta should have an ID Card and it is needed before we can do a host of other things, such as open a bank account. It has been quite a process, The first time we went we were informed that even though we had numerous ID information, they also needed our marriage certificate. We then went back the next day with the certificate to find they were closed. Now we really should have checked this as we have learned since living in Malta that there seems to be at least one bank holiday a week!
On our next visit we both had to have our photo’s taken and complete some forms. We then had to wait to receive a letter in the post telling us to go back for another photo before we could collect the cards. Both of our details had errors and so this went on.
However today we finally got our cards, one of which still has an error on. We do not have the strength to go back again at this stage to get it changed and who cares that we are now both women?