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A US visa in 937 days (2020)

• lotux 3y ago
  If I apply for US visa (which I will not, ever!), I have to wait for 3 years and get single entry visa at best which is ridiculous, they also ask for insane amount of info from me!
  • necovek 3y ago
    Wait until you see Schengen-area visa requirements then: bank account statements, property ownership proofs, education certificates on top of what US would generally ask you for. And then you get exact-dates-of-trip visas (compared to US issuing 3-year or 10-year visas) — or, well, get denied simply because (even if you had a visa that allowed you to travel to that same spot a month ago). Luckily, Serbia got on the Schengen allow-list in 2009: I kept replacing my passports before expiration since I had no pages left.
• easierway 3y ago
  Should have booked a one-way trip to Mexico instead.
• stephenr 3y ago
  > I posted my passport to the US embassy in Stockholm. Maybe this is a cultural thing, or something.. but I cannot imagine this scenario, and saying "ok then". I've lived in a foreign (to me) country with let's say, a "significant" amount of of red-tape for foreigners, for over a decade and I've travelled to half a dozen countries in the last two decades. The idea that I would send my current passport to "someone" by post is quite bizarre to me. I realise he did this while in his home country, but even then - the concept is very strange to me.