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case you didn't get it: The national football team lost their first game against Japan (1:2).

If you are not so interested in the sporting results, we have again summarized the most important news from the Rhine-Main area for you.

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Traffic jam for requests:

With a supervisory complaint, Commerzbank managed to draw attention to the Frankfurt immigration authorities.

That's where the inquiries pile up.

There are currently around 15,000 unedited ones.

This sometimes leads to workers from abroad losing their work permits, which drives not only the people themselves but also the companies to the brink of despair.

In the case of the Commerzbank employee, he is said to have tried to have his visa extended for eight months.

Vain.

As a result, he lost his work permit and could no longer be employed.

The case described is now considered solved.

Thousands of comparable ones are still pending.

Now it is clear: the authority is chronically understaffed.

Of 159 positions, 23 could not be filled at all in the past few months.

32 employees will be absent for a longer period of time.

The problem has been known for years, and attempts to ease the situation have repeatedly failed.

Because the work in the office, in which the employees have to deal with a complex and constantly changing legal situation, is complicated and the fluctuation among employees is high.

The hopes are now on a new processing and mail system.

This should help to group all inquiries that concern one and the same case and thus prevent duplication of work.

In her commentary on the subject, our author Monika Ganster demands: "So that the Frankfurt immigration authorities actually become a welcoming authority at some point,

Sequel follows:

In the past, before Netflix and Co, when series required patience, people learned to wait.

To the sequel, which was mostly announced in the previous week with cliff hangers.

The television program sometimes also determined social life.

And today?

Everything is always available – no matter what time.

The trial of the former Frankfurt Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann is reminiscent of this "earlier".

For several weeks he has had to answer to the district court - often on Wednesdays - on suspicion of taking advantage.

Such process days are sometimes very, very long, as our author Bernhard Biener found out.

This Wednesday, the former head of human resources at Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) Frankfurt testified.

It had little to do with Feldmann.

But the witness granted deep insights into the management of the former leadership of the social association.

For example, the rules according to which company cars were assigned were incomprehensible to him.

He also prepared the employment contract for Feldmann's partner at the time and later his wife.

According to his statement, your salary classification should have been corrected by hand by the "special representative" Hannelore Richter.

Sequel follows.

again next Wednesday.

According to his statement, your salary classification should have been corrected by hand by the "special representative" Hannelore Richter.

Sequel follows.

again next Wednesday.

According to his statement, your salary classification should have been corrected by hand by the "special representative" Hannelore Richter.

Sequel follows.

again next Wednesday.