12 Struggles That Only People Who Need A Visa To Travel Will Understand

Chances are that if your passport is from a third-world country, then spontaneous travel plans seldom exist.

Yes, the visa struggles are real! If you don’t believe us, read on:

If only a visa application was as simple as submitting your passport.

On top of that, you have to take time off from work to actually pay a visit to your bank, because online statements are no longer accepted by most embassies!

Confused by bureaucratic rules such as ‘Please have two blank pages on your passport,’ when you know that a visa only occupies one page on your passport ? Then again, the purpose of visa rules is to perplex.

Kudos for getting your paperwork ready, but now you log onto the embassy website and find that the earliest available appointment is after your scheduled departure! Or just a few days before – if only visas took a few days!

Is efficient customer service with a smile too much to ask for? Apparently so.

And here we thought communication would be more transparent in the digital age.

Would it hurt to issue a month-long visa? Or try to boost tourism?

It does help that 50-odd countries grant Indians visa on arrival.