Residency Process

We turned in our paperwork to renew our residency cards in May and, as usual, received a 3-month temporary card for May to August.  Unfortunately, our regular card wasn't ready when needed to leave for the states in August.  Instead of our permanent card, they printed another 3-month temporary card for August to November.  Today we made another trip to the immigration office to see if our regular cards were ready, but "no."  Instead after a 2-hour wait and another $20, we will be able to pick up another 3-month temporary card (November to February) tomorrow.  It does boggle the mind that they are more than 6 months behind!  Who knows if we'll get a regular card in February--we may go through the whole year with a temporary card--only problem is we need a regular card to get our new driver's license.  Looks like we will be driving on our old license until February and, perhaps, beyond.