Since yesterday, on the website of the campaign "Ero Straniero", the update on the implementation of the extraordinary regularization of May 2020 is available. "Disheartening news continues to arrive from the Ministry of the Interior about the definition of the approximately 220.00 total applications submitted over two years ago - reads a note - From the data obtained from the Viminale in response to our request for access to the documents, it appears that, as of October 19, 83,032 residence visas were actually issued: only 37.7% of the total applications submitted. It is clear that the administrative machinery of the Ministry of the Interior has got stuck and is unable to catch up. In the light of these very long times, which were also condemned by the Council of State last May, the treatment of tens of thousands of foreigners in these offices, which are constantly understaffed and unprepared to face such a heavy workload, seems increasingly incredible. Nor was it enough to hire, among other things with great delay, the more than 1,200 temporary workers thanks to which some progress has been made; because of their precarious contracts, they struggle to guarantee the continuity that would be indispensable to the administrative activity".
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