Beureaucracy Splendour
As you may already know, and thanks to my luck, the new visa requirement for Mexican citizens was announced three days after my arrival to Hermosillo. Even though I was fairly optimistic that I would get the visa in a reasonable time, beureaucracy shined in all its glory.
In short: my visa was approved since late July, but the embassy had the delicacy of losing three prepaid air waybills in a period of three weeks. I sent one after another, looking for a phone number where to call with no luck, until I found a fax number where to complain about things. Finally, I got the visa, but like in a Kafkian story, things culdn’t be so good: the visa had expired 13 days before I received it and had a validity of 7 days. Things kept getting more and more complicated, my US visa expired during the long processing time and I lost the possibility of traveling via the US (there was no way of renewing the US visa without my passport).
Surprisingly, the embassy accepted the series of mistakes as their responsibility. After having accomplished a Guiness World Record in filling the largest number of privacy-invading forms, I got the visa!
So I’m now free reschedule my flight and to post all the progress-and-pictures-and-videos I had the luck to take during my unplanned stay.
I will be back by August 31stThank you for your patience and sorry for not having posted as frequently as I wanted to.
