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Drawing cash as UK citizens while visiting US

6/5/2017 8:42:38 PM I’m a UK citizen who successfully opened a US bank account when I was there. All I needed was my passport. I use internet banking to control it. However, there’s a new online “bank” called Revolut which looks worth investigating. They claim you can spend in GBP, EUR or USD at the […]

Can I leave the Helsinki airport on a layover, as an American

7/14/2014 9:17:27 PM Yes, you can. Finland is part of the Schengen Area, which means US passport holders may enter without requiring a visa for up to 90 days within any 180 day period. What is the cost to store luggage in Ho Chi Minh airport (Vietnam)? Credit:stackoverflow.com‘

Flight transfer via Ireland with a UK reentry ban

5/10/2017 7:31:52 PM A reentry ban issued by the UK does not affect movement in or through the Republic of Ireland in a strict legal sense. Ireland is a different country and hence outside the UK’s sovereignty. So whatever happens falls to the Garda Síochána to decide. Having said that there’s an open data sharing […]

What is the cost to store luggage in Ho Chi Minh airport (Vietnam)?

7/14/2014 1:21:55 AM It very clearly mentions in the regulations on the document that you cannot keep it at the service for more than 48 hours, Baggage only held within 48 hours. After 48 hours, it will be treated as unclaimed baggage. Keeping this in mind, the $12 fee is applicable when you store your […]

Why is the flight time of London-Beijing and Tel Aviv-Beijing the same?

Why is the flight time of London-Beijing and Tel Aviv-Beijing the same?

4/11/2017 11:24:15 AM The great circle distance from LHR to PEK is 8174km and the scheduled flight time is 10:10 (British Airways). The great circle distance from TLV to PEK is 7155km and the scheduled flight time is 9:20. There is no condradiction between a 1000km difference in flight distance and a 50 minute difference […]

What are these "balls" that we found in Uruguay?

What are these "balls" that we found in Uruguay?

6/10/2021 4:53:44 PM We call them here Agua Viva (Live or living water), AFAIK its irritant, so be careful, I wouldn’t touch it. What I found is that is some kind of relative of jellyfish, look for Medusozoa. World's longest purpose-built pedestrian tunnel? 3/19/2019 10:32:10 AM If they haven’t exploded yet, in addition to liquid, […]

Is wild camping legal in Romania?

6/15/2017 10:36:31 AM Wild camping is not allowed in Romania, there is a law (Legea 54/2012 privind desfasurarea activitatilor de picnic) which does not allow it. But… yes, it is still tolerated. A special attention at the natural reservations (The Danube Delta in particular). An interactive map with camping sites in Romania as well as […]

How to get a State Visitor Permit for a rented self-drive car in India?

8/8/2014 5:50:58 AM For all Rent a cab services, If entering from Karnataka to TamilNadu via Hosur, there is RTO check post where temporary permits are provided for one week, 4+1 = ₹150 + handling charges ~₹100 Can a US physician give a MRI referral that is valid in France? 7/11/2014 9:45:55 PM I have […]

World's longest purpose-built pedestrian tunnel?

8/27/2020 8:01:42 PM There’s a pedestrian tunnel under construction under Løvstakken, in Bergen, Norway. The length is 2900m. It’s scheduled to open in 2023. Parallelt med traseen bygges det en gang- og sykkeltunnel. Tunnelen vil bli en toveis bane med en bredde på seks meter. 3,5 meter blir sykkelfelt og 2,5 meter blir fortau. In […]

Can a US physician give a MRI referral that is valid in France?

7/6/2014 7:50:39 PM AFAIK, an MRI does not necessarily needs to be prescribed, you could in principle simply make an appointment with an imagery lab. Usually, patients would have a referral letter by their general practitioner or another physician, which would indicate what needs to be done and why but that’s not really a “prescription” […]

Can I decline an alternative ticket handed at an airline's check-in counter in case of an emergency?

3/23/2017 4:48:11 PM In this case, the contract was from A to B to C and the airline offered an alternative of A to C. You can always refuse an offer of an alternative, (ie overbooking etc.) but if the original is no simply no longer available to you and you still refuse the alternative, […]

Can I get a UK visitors visa after previously having been granted ILR status?

3/21/2017 5:35:02 AM Can a person who once held Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) apply for a Standard Visitor Visa? Superb question! We have nothing like this in the archives here and this provides an opportunity to give some canonical treatment to it. Table of Contents BackgroundSpecific case: Spouse lost ILR in about 2012 (about […]

Flying to the US with prescription antibiotics

7/3/2014 3:12:03 PM The US Customs and Border Protection branch of the Department of Homeland Security has a Prohibited and Restricted Items page. About half way down it discusses Medications. As link-only answers are frowned upon (due to stale links for one thing), I have reproduced the relevant section here: Medication Rule of thumb: When […]

What time does siesta start and finish in Spain?

7/1/2014 9:38:29 PM There is no written rule about “siesta” time. Usually the siesta starts after lunch and ends one or two hours later. It is a wrong idea to think that most Spanish have a siesta time, it happened some decades ago, but today is not a generalized practice. Anyway, you have to difference […]

Can you name those countries on Schengen visa?

Can you name those countries on Schengen visa?

3/16/2017 10:37:12 PM It’s a somewhat confused mess. @pbu quotes a French consulate website that states a series of 1/2/3-letter country name abbreviations are to be used in this field. These abbreviations appear to track international vehicle registration codes. However, Regulation 1683/95 (format for uniform visas) actually specify that these abbreviations are to be used […]

Does Heathrow Terminal 5 allow transit visa exempt flyers to stay airside overnight?

3/17/2017 12:50:22 PM As stated in Timatic, the database used by airlines: Transit without a visa: Nationals of [insert country] holding confirmed onward tickets making an airside transit at London Gatwick (LGW), London Heathrow (LHR) or Manchester (MAN) on the same calendar day to a third country (excluding Ireland (Rep.)). Meaning, yes, the transit area […]

"Proof of foreign residence" for BritRail?

6/30/2014 9:47:11 PM I asked using the contact form on www.britrail.net and got this reply: Dear Henning, We understand your point however your Danish passport is sufficient ID to validate your Britrail pass. Please don’t worry and have a great trip! I think I’ll be bringing a printout of that email … London night bus […]

Entering the US with mismatching birth country and city in passport

3/9/2017 11:18:00 AM There may be perfectly legitimate reasons for such discrepancies. For example a city could belong to country A when a person was born, but later change to country B because of border adjustment or because country A was reformed/renamed/ceased to exist. So the fact that the place of birth in the passport […]

London night bus safety

2/9/2016 11:49:38 AM When I lived in London, the joke was that no night bus was ever boring. There might be partiers, revellers, half-comatose drunkards, couples, drunkards being ill, fights, arguments, tears – but never boredom. Saying that, I never once felt unsafe. I too travelled to various airports including Heathrow on night buses, with […]

We were stopped by Border Patrol while traveling within the US without our passports. Would this cause issues for future travel?

12/14/2018 2:23:27 PM In order to make you criminally inadmissible per 8 U.S. Code § 1182, you have to be charged with some qualified crime. In order to get charged with something serious, you have to be arraigned, go through court etc. Did this stop become a part of your immigration record? File a FOIA/PA […]

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