On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Gwyn Ryan <gwynhefar@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Jax Goss <royaldragon@gmail.com> wrote:So your current passport is from South Africa? Or UAE?
>
> Am hoping this is the last time I'll have to get a visa to visit the States.
> This one is a ten year visa, and by the time it expires I will hopefully
> have a New Zealand passport, which doesn't need a visa.
>
South African. I haven't been in NZ long enough to get citizenship yet. But once I can, I probably will, just because travelling on a NZ passport is sooo much easier than travelling on a SA one.
And they
require an interview? Interesting.
Yup. They're pretty much the only ones who do. I've travelled all over the place, as you know, and the US is far and away the most awful one for visas and so forth.
Kiwis can more or less just go though. You have to fill in an online waiver form, but I did it for Christopher (cos, being born here, he has a NZ passport) and it took like 20 mins. Mine though? MISSION.
My experience is pretty much
limited to travelling from the US to places like France, Mexico,
Dominican Republic, and Jamaica -- no interviews required for any of
those, just a form to fill out and a stamp in the customs/immigration
line when you get off the plane.
There are a lot of places like that, but when you're on a South African passport most places want a visa. I think the only place I've been where I could just walk in was Bahrain. And I think even there, I had to buy a visa at the airport.
But the US is the worst. By a mile!
Jax
Gwyn
--
Rain and sun shall feed me now,
and roots, and nuts, and wild things,
and rustlings in the midnight wood,
half-mad, like Myrddin, wandering.
--Terri Windling
one day I am going to bloom
patient and proud
with fish in my mouth
and eyes in my wings
--Noe Venable
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