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A friend was doing a stint in Ghana as part of their degree, and was the same there. Had to get a visa, but no embassy in Norway, so had to use the one in Denma
by magicalhippo 3y ago
A friend was doing a stint in Ghana as part of their degree, and was the same there. Had to get a visa, but no embassy in Norway, so had to use the one in Denmark.
IIRC they had to send an email to apply then had to mail passport and money, so had to go to the bank to get danish currency. The whole process took a couple of months.
I knew about visa being a thing, but hadn't traveled outside EU and US, so was a bit of an eye opener.
- pydry 3y agoI applied for a visa to Ghana last year. They had a broken website. When I asked tech support what the issue was they invented a reason of "you applied too far in advance" which wasn't true. The level to which they just didn't give a damn was palpable. I can't remember exactly what the issue was - something like a button or a drop down not working - but I managed to work around it in the end but it was very stressful. I had a whole bunch of flights, other visas, etc. hinging on this stupid broken website. It's a whole different world to when I travel to Europe/US/Asia but it's not all that different to how my spouse experiences traveling (with an unfortunate passport). The websites in the west tend to work a bit better but they do all sorts of things like require a visa appointment at a visa center, throttle the number of slots, make you come two weeks from now on Tuesday at 11:24am exactly and then keep you waiting until 5pm to talk to somebody who doesn't even understand the rules of the visa you're applying for.