Dealing with Immigration

The new, "streamlined" process for renewing our FM3 documents:

First: Arrive at the Immigration Office about 9:30 AM and take a number.
Wait for 2+ hours to pick up the necessary forms.
Second: Go to a small copy office down the street.
Fill out forms; make copies.
Go to bank and pay fees.
Third: Go back to the Immigration Office (about 12 Noon) and take number.
Wait for 2+MORE hours to drop off the forms, copies and payment receipts.
With much ceremony, paperwork is carefully inspected and STAMPED!
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
By THIS time, the office is a "hornets nest" of REALLY unhappy gringoes.
Go home and have something alcoholic mid-afternoon.
Finally: Return six days later to pick up renewed document. MAYBE it will be ready.