paper chase
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Other gamespaper chaseˈpaper chase noun [countable] informal DGOan official process that prevents you from doing something quickly because it involves writing or reading a lot of documents → bureaucracy, red tapeExamples from the Corpuspaper chase• I was asked to do a straight forward paper chase, as we call it, and a few interviews.• She had gotten involved in the paper chase to obtain U.S. citizenship.