Mai-Maps is a website that tries to translate the emotional landscape of a timely bureacratic experience in Maisa's life between 2022 and 2025. Having migrated from her home country -- Bosnia & Herzegovina, to the Netherlands in 2013, Maisa's long-term goal was to obtain a European passport. Between 2013 and 2022, she's been a good civilian: didn't break any law, didn't accummulate debt, managed to accummulate income -- minimum-wage at the very least, and learned Dutch enough to pass the integration exams. She upgraded from student visa to artist visa to permanent Dutch residence -- all of which unlocked the opportunity to apply for a Dutch passport. In 2022, she took the risk of moving to the US, in order to pursue a dream MA degree before she turns 30 years old. This was not a good time for her passport application plan, but due to receiving an important Dutch funding for foreign studies and a scholarship from California Institute of the Arts, she could not resist. Besides, she'd obtain her MA degree on time, that is, before she turns 30. So off she went. What followed is the most stressful and tiring period in her life, but also the most thrilling. She came up with a great plan: to still apply for a Dutch passport right after having moved out of the country, but keep all of the gadgets that make it seem like she's still in the country: her health insurance, her company, her apartment. On top of that, she decided to travel back to Amsterdam every 5 months or less, so that, if one day she was to be scrutinizes, she'd tell ~ them she was travelling for work and didn't break the law of being out of the country longer than 5 months in a row. On the 23rd of September 2025, after 5 trips that brought trans-atlantic exhaustion, cognitive dissonance, and relational losses, her Dutch passport was approved. Her spirit left her body; she cried tears of joy for days. On the 31st of April 2025, she officially became Dutch. Her passport was printed on the 4th of April 2025 and, finally, contains a bright portrait of her face.!!