Ways to help a writer: -buy their book -review their book -construct a diorama based off a scene in their book -juggle copies of their book at a haunted circus -feed their book to a cosmic bookworm with a billion teeth -read their book aloud to a basement of faceless mannequins
Bureaucracy becomes significantly easier to navigate once you realize bureaucrats are human beings and if you send them an overwhelming amount of documentation they'll often decide they don't get paid enough to go through all your bullshit and it's easier to just give you what you need