Visa is done, now what?

[E]
When I was back to Brazil, the very few times I left home were to look for a temp job (unfortunately I didnt succeed) or to get my Visa. Since my wife had an address here in Italy, I could ask at the Italy Embassy to stay here with her, thats my visa. I couldnt ask this before cause it required that she was living here.

I was already very well informed about how I should proceed once I got back here: go to the police at tuesday morning with the visa and many other documents, they would then look for a day I would have to go there again and in the end of the process I would get my permission to stay/work/study/etc.

My plane arrived on wednesday and so I had to wait almost a week to do this. Important to say that once we get in italy we need to do such things in less than 8 days.

I tried to haste things a it going there on friday but i just got the same old answer (check the dates outside on the panel).

Finally tuesday! I went there just to discover things have changed and the police here doesnt do this anymore!

I had to go to the post office to get the forms, then I went to the city hall to fill them (they filled the forms on the computer and gave me other forms filled) and then I had to go to a specific post office where these things are sent to Pavia (the city that vigevano is politically part of).

After all this trouble, we decided to eat before going to this last post office. It was already past midday and we had walked around almost all the city since 7:30am.

When we finally got there, we found out that they only open in the morning. We wouldnt have time to go there anyway.