# [2021.01.26] L'Autorisation Provisoire de Séjour

Today we went to the local prefecture and got our temporary residence
permits. It's remarkable that here in Nice the administrative centre
is near the airport, quite far from the old town. In Moscow, they
also talked a lot about moving the administration far from the city
centre (to so-called New Moscow). Unfortunately, that never happened.
And here it's our reality. I also can say today I saw a perfect
example of working bureaucracy. According to the issue date, the
documents have been waiting for us for about two weeks already, but
the sanitary conditions prevented us from getting them earlier. So I
think the problem is about the pandemic, and French bureaucracy
works, in contrast to the dear Russian one.