Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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I got crazy today. In the morning Yara and I went to the Indian Consulate in Frankfurt to get our Visas. We have checked the website before to make sure we have everything that they need. then it turns out of course they needed more stuff than we had. They asked for a confirmation that we have lived in Germany for the last 3 years. Otherwise no Visa. No discussion, that is the rules (of course it is not written anywhere on the form or the website) - and we all know who wins these discussions. So in the end it took a detour for Yara back home to get her older passports and for me to the Bürgeramt to get a confirmation of the last 3 years spent in Germany and so we finished at 10:30 instead of 9:30 as planned. As an added bonus the S-Bahn was not on time so we took a taxi to the office. Total costs of India until now have so climbed to €591 including the Taxi and the Visa.

In the afternoon I went back again to pick up the Visas and queued for 40 minutes because they served 3-4 people who had tousands of questions or dared to discuss some things and some people even that submitted their Visa applications in the Visa collection time. They had only one counter open for like 70-80 people but whenever someone appeared at the other counter this person got served. I am a sucker and so I didn't go there. I was sooooooo mad. And when it was my turn, they asked me again for the confirmation because they kind of lost it. Thank god I had only given them a copy and kept the original in the morning - otherwise there would be breaking news on CNN right now about an Indian Consulate in Frankfurt burning down to ashes...

Dear consulate employees, I know I don't have my own Kingdom but I am trying to spend some time (and money) in your country and for me you are the face of that country and I don't see why I need to be treated like this. I just don't want to enter that building ever again. Next time I will do the whole thing via mail :-)

So, this being out in the open - I am now focusing on getting the whole GOA thing organized. To be continued ...