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Submitting a complete record of 15 years of travel history would be quite challenging to many people, to say the least.
by johansch 9y ago
Submitting a complete record of 15 years of travel history would be quite challenging to many people, to say the least.
- isostatic 9y agoI applied for an Indian visa a couple months ago. The page gave me 100 characters to list countries I'd visited in the previous few years. If I used 2 letter abbreviations and skipped the commas I could have just about done it. As it stands I started at NZ and moved west. Ran out of space just before listing Pakistan. Oh well.
- mac01021 9y agoWhy do you visit so many countries?
- hoodoof 9y agoGood question! That's what immigration will be suspicious about....
- quickben 9y agoI have hippie friends that just travel. He works remote part time as a frontend dev, she makes jewelery. The have one kid and another one on its way. They often wonder why so many people don't visit any other countries, to see how other people live, gain understanding, experience and love.
- mac01021 9y agoIsn't it difficult to genuinely experience another part of the world (gaining understanding, experience, etc) without either speaking the language or hiring an expensive guide?
- quickben 9y agoThey are saying most know some level of English. As for the guide, they actually live for months whenever they go, make some friends and see what's there to see.
- 1024core 9y agoThat's nobody's business. Maybe s/he likes to travel. Especially if you're in EU where there are practically no borders west of Russia, you can visit dozens of countries without sweat.
- cnst 9y agoAlso practically no borders within Russia, and you can visit dozens of republics without sweat.
- orangecrush4000 9y agoActually, it is the government's business to know where their citizens have been. What the hell you think passport stamps are for.
- isostatic 9y agoIt's quite simple, I work for a multinational company with offices in about 100 counties. Add 20 or so countries in Europe which are easy enough to visit for a weekend break and 50 is quite a small number. Most people I know have visited at least 10 counties in the last 10 years, and many have visited 20+, just for tourist purposes
- joshka 9y agoWhy do you believe this is a lot of countries to visit?
- mac01021 9y agoBecause the number is many standard deviations above average.
- johansch 9y agoYou americans are so funny sometimes.
- seanmcdirmid 9y ago> Ran out of space just before listing Pakistan. Oh well. I know jokes aren't allowed on HN, but this is great :)
- chx 9y agoI was a Canadian Permanent Resident and now a Canadian citizen and I needed to provide the last five years travel history more than a few times. I knew this and I kept a Google Sheet with the info from the moment I landed in Canada. Turned out that was not enough: the citizenship application required the list of countries visited in the last five years even before landing in Canada. Doh! I could scrape it together, though because I applied at like 4.5 years in. But 15 years? That is pretty near impossible to put together.
- johansch 9y agoI think I have done about 200-250 international trips (using like 600-800 flight segments) during the past 15 years. And I have worked with people who travel 5x more...
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoYa, do they want exact dates? F*ck if I know. I have trouble remember what dates I'm in the states when asked on my tax return, or when I was in California when asked on my state tax return. I could try to figure it out via my passport stamps, I guess, at least for those countries that actually still stamp.
- ajdlinux 9y agoThere's a reason I started keeping a full diary of every flight I've taken starting about 5 years ago...
- vilhelm_s 9y agoOr giving the passport numbers of every passport you've ever held. I have the last two, but no idea of any before that.