Omar Alshafai (L) and Ghaith Zamrik pose for a picture after an AFP interview in Berlin's Mitte (Centre) district, on August 11, 2016. Interminable queues, impenetrable paperwork, unpronounceable German words - the hurdles for any newcomer to Europe's top economy can be daunting but now there's an app for that, says a team of enterprising Syrian refugees. It's called Bureaucrazy, after the often Kafkaesque process of getting housing, health care and a bank account, not to mention seeking asylum. / AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Deborah COLE
BERLIN: Interminable queues, impenetrable paperwork, unpronounceable German words – the hurdles for any newcomer to Europe’s top economy can be daunting but now there’s an app for that, says a team of enterprising Syrian refugees.
It’s called Bureaucrazy, after the often Kafkaesque process of getting housing, health care and a bank account, not to mention seeking asylum.
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