International man of travel
16 December 2004 @ 15:59 in Life
I subjected myself to an exercise in bureaucracy
recently in applying for a visa to allow me to work
in the US. I'm heading out to the west coast for
business in January, and didn't want to risk the
wrath of the increasingly hardcore US immigration
services by not being properly documented-up. After
many forms and a ridiculously early interview, my
spanky fresh visa arrived on my desk yesterday. The
whole process of applying costs £70, the majority of
which I suspect goes on printing the slip that gets
stuck into my passport. It's got fancy iridescent ink
and everything!
One side-effect of this is that I'll get even fewer exciting stamps in my passport as I travel around. The whole EU thing stopped much of that, and now I won't even get US stamps.
And now, for your amusement, compare the photo in my visa to that on my passport. The latter was taken in 1997 when I was 17. Look at the amount of hair!
