It took a month and help from an army of immigrant advocates to get Hamidou Diallo’s 4-year-old daughter enrolled at a school in Harlem — a task a member of the schools’ oversight board said should have taken no more than a day.

“All these efforts for her to be accepted and now for her to start classes,” the 36-year-old Diallo, an asylum seeker from Guinea, said in his native Fulani, of the bureaucratic delays that sidelined his daughter. “That was not what I had in mind.”

For migrant parents like Diallo, navigating the city’s school bureaucracy has been a struggle. Parents and immigrant advocates alike complain of poor communication, delays enrolling students, long commutes, and other transportation-related issues.

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