Even if you don't know spanish, you probably can deduct the title of this blog. Vising the Investigative Police. Basically, Chile has three types of military forces: the carabineros (what you are use to as state police), the policia de investigaciones (what you are use to as the FBI), and their military force which is mostly made up of navy and airforce members, which makes sense for the geographic size and shape of Chile.
Our IFSA group visited the national headquarters of the policia de investigaciones because we needed to register our visa within 30 days of arriving in Chile. The process was a long one. Many of my friends from california and they compared the line, or waiting room, to the California DMV. I was amazed because the Minnesota DMV is slow but not that slow. I am learning here that Minnesota though is in general one of the best states when it comes to everything.... that is what my friend sam says. He grew up in California but now goes to Carelton in Northfield.
So, basically, we sat in line and got our visas checked and then we got a nice white card that we were told needed to be presented to a different agency which we would have to do on our own to get our national id card. I have gotten this completed and now I officially have a chilean foreign national id card. Actually, this made me much more willing to support a national id law... still not sure about how I feel about this political topic, but everyone in Chile has this id and its used for everything and I don't think people get discriminated with it, but maybe I need to ask.
After visiting the Chilean FBI, I had the day off. I can't remember what I did which probably means that I didn't do anything that exciting.
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