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What is meant by "Country of residence" in Australian Visa Application form?

9/15/2015 10:14:55 PM Your country of residence is where you spend over 50% of the time when you are not being a tourist. Excluding all the time you are travelling on a tourist visa, where will you spend 50% or more of your year? This may be in the country of your citizenship, but could […]

How should an American citizen licensed to go to Cuba bring money?

11/24/2014 12:38:11 PM Wikitravel has a page on Americans in Cuba. Under the ‘Buy’ section, they go into a lot of detail, but there are a few key points: credit cards will not work. Well, they will .. maybe .. if completely unaffiliated with US companies. US credit cards definitely won’t. So don’t rely on […]

What is the closest US equivalent to UK Ordnance Survey Maps?

11/1/2021 11:38:13 AM The most significant differences between the UK Ordnance Survey maps and any comparable US maps come from several basic issues. The UK (England and Wales, but not Scotland so much) has a huge number (more than 140,000 miles) of footpaths that have a historically and legally protected right of pedestrian walking access […]

How to get a large amount of cash abroad if a debit card stops working?

1/20/2020 4:51:09 PM I will suggest Bitcoin. As a western-world citizen, – “France” -, you are able to open coinbase.com account. There, you could invest / trade / or withdraw / exchange Bitcoin to Cash and vice versa. The account required long-time verification procedure, so emergency – this is not your salvation. However, for the […]

Free view of the Sydney CBD

Free view of the Sydney CBD

11/10/2014 6:00:26 AM Other good and free views not yet mentioned include: Cremorne Wharf Balls Head, Waverton Larkin St Lookout, Waverton Bradley’s Head (Ideas courtesy of a great write-up by Ilya Genkin.) Flight ticket reimbursement after Travel Warning 11/10/2014 5:22:41 AM Sydney’s a bit too flat to have any mountains with CBD views; instead, I’d […]

Getting Schengen Visa with a French resident as sponsor

5/12/2014 9:17:41 PM It’s difficult to find clear guidance on this. What I could find so far: Means of subsistence and accommodation are clearly two separate requirements, you need to be able to prove you have both. If you have accommodation, you don’t need as much money. According to this table (based on submission by […]

Refused entry to UK, not sure what to do

5/7/2015 5:38:05 PM The bit about “meeting with Artistic Directors of various theatre companies to see if they might be interested in producing my work” is in the work spectrum. If you were trying to enter the UK in the visa you obtained at the airport and valid for 6 months, and claimed that you […]

Flight ticket reimbursement after Travel Warning

11/6/2014 12:08:19 PM As a rule of thumb, travel warnings do not give you any “right” to a refund directly from an airline. However, as a courtesy, some (better) airlines will let you cancel or change flights for free at their own discretion, eg. Singapore Airlines waived charges during the May 2014 coup in Thailand, […]

Can I get back into Australia on a tourist visa if I have an unpaid fine?

10/20/2015 3:21:50 AM If you don’t want to enter the blacklist of immigration, you should pay the fine before leaving Australia. Even when you paid the fee, I have a doubt that you can get a tourist visa for the travels later. How do EU citizens claim healthcare bills in the Netherlands with the EHIC? […]

What's the emergency number (the 911 equivalent) in Israel?

What's the emergency number (the 911 equivalent) in Israel?

3/30/2015 6:53:50 PM This Anglo List webpage on the topic carries information on various useful contact numbers in Israel, including emergency numbers: Note you can also use 112 to contact emergency services in many countries including Israel, in which it is callable from mobile phones only. Can I live on an unoccupied island? Credit:stackoverflow.com‘

Is the tap water in France safe to drink?

Is the tap water in France safe to drink?

10/11/2019 6:54:25 AM You can get a rough estimation of how safe tap water in a country is by looking at the WHO map detailing the use of safely managed drinking-water sources. Roughly, tap water is OK in countries with >75% of population using safe water sources. This threshold will indeed depend on how certain […]

Can I rent a manual transmission car in the UK with a Canadian driving license?

11/12/2019 10:23:12 PM Yes, you can come as a visitor and present your Canadian driving licence and hire a car with manual transmission. If you were to stay twelve months, however, you would have to exchange your Canadian licence (note there is no exchange for US licences) and would then be granted only a UK […]

Can I live on an unoccupied island?

3/21/2015 12:11:56 AM Much better to make an artificial island, so that you can move it where you want. A friend of mine, a journalist, has created one in Amsterdan with recycled PET in early 2000. Then he covered it with grass, a nice house and some trees. He also wrote a book about that […]

How do EU citizens claim healthcare bills in the Netherlands with the EHIC?

1/22/2014 9:17:02 AM Being myself insured in the Netherlands, I am not 100% sure how it works for non-residents but the way health care is structured here is that there is no national health service but many independent providers and several private insurers. However, prices and insurance coverage are regulated. In practice, general practitioner (huisarts) […]

How are validated underground tickets checked in Berlin?

3/24/2015 2:58:58 PM Tickets are checked once in a while by BVG personell (they are disguised however) Do Chinese customs agents check the contents of Kindles and notebooks? 3/20/2015 2:16:10 PM Tickets get checked periodically by BVG personnell on the train. You may or may not recognize them (they may disguise as regular passengers). The […]

Applying for a B2 visa after previous overstay as a child?

11/5/2014 2:05:14 AM You seem to have a 212(a)(9)(B)(i)(II) 10-year ban. 212(a)(9)(B) is a ban for accumulating a certain amount of “unlawful presence” and then departing the U.S. “Unlawful presence” is somewhat complicated, but for people who were admitted for a fixed period (including VWP), it basically starts accumulating when you exceed that period. There […]

Do Chinese customs agents check the contents of Kindles and notebooks?

1/26/2015 10:00:51 PM The answer is probably not – but I would think of ways you can minimize your risk. Each time I enter Shanghai Pudong the border agent checks my visa, doesn’t say anything, and lets me through. Then there doesn’t seem to be a customs check at all typically (there’s sort of an […]

Can you dive into Berlin's Radisson Blu Aquadom?

1/17/2014 8:11:55 PM Being a scuba diver, the first time I saw the pictures from the Aquarium, a few month ago, I immediately started researching more details about how to dive there. Unfortunately, this is not possible. The guests can’t go for a dive in the Aquadom, they can just take the elevator inside it. […]

Warned by CBP about traveling to the US using the wrong visa, but need to go again soon

8/31/2018 4:32:35 PM As you probably known, there has been a lot of fraud involving H1-B visas, and the US government is (sort-of) cracking down on it. As a result, various outsourcing companies have been bringing in half-priced foreign workers under the B-1 visa. This has, predictably, caused people coming here on B-1 visas to […]

How can I bring a broken tablet on an airplane to the US?

10/29/2014 4:42:21 PM The TSA Restriction The restriction you mentioned does not apply to all flights towards all destinations. It is a new rule which is slowly being implemented across continents. If I am not mistaken the US were the first, followed by UK. I could not find any official reference covering the status by […]

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