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KD
Since: May, 2009
27th May, 2021 08:13:57 PM
Might be an Obstructive Bureaucrat doing this, if the process involves filling out forms (always in triplicate) and following burdensome regulations.
There was a trope about when a government or a company make a process very complex and long in order to discourage people from doing it.