Comune visit experience/advice!
I plan on visiting my Comune (Mesoraca, down in Calabria) in a few months to follow up on my application. I applied April 2024, had a few homework items but they got submitted quickly. Applied in Chicago.
When trying to get ahold of my Comune to get paperwork, basically I couldn’t (they didn’t respond to phone call, email, snail mail, nothing) and had to hire someone in Italy to go get it for me (but he was able to acquire them, I believe easily?? So that’s good). So now, over two years since the application was submitted, I’m going to head to Italy, for vacation, to meet more cousins (I’ve met two, who live up north and speak English, but I’m so excited to meet more!! The ones down south don’t speak English though so that’ll be a fun adventure 😂) and to visit the Comune to ask about my application!
Has anyone done this before? Gone to their community to check in. What was your experience? Any advice?
My cousins down there don’t speak English, but I’ve hired someone to help schedule the appointment and to be my translator. The cousins have a bakery so I tentatively plan on bringing baked goods to the Comune people as a thank you/good faith gesture (and also to drive home that like, I have cousins there! I know my cousins there!). And I’ve been working on learning Italian. It’s not much but hopefully having a few words will also be a decent good faith gesture.
Thanks in advance! 💖
(Also, I hope the tag is ok? I couldn’t find a description of what was supposed to go under “lounge post” but none of the other flairs seemed super accurate so I just went with it 🙂)