Tale of Two Countries
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To get a visa to visit Myanmar, one has to fill out several paper forms and send them, along with one's passport, two photographs, and a postal money order, to the embassy in Washington, and wait over two weeks for it to be processed and returned (as mentioned here).
To get a visa to visit Cambodia, one has to go to the country's website, fill in an online form (into which one pastes an online photograph), authorize a credit-card payment, and submit online, and then wait about 9 hours for the visa to be emailed back. (Well, the site said to expect it to take up to three days, but did in fact take only 9 hours.)
To get a visa to visit Myanmar, one has to fill out several paper forms and send them, along with one's passport, two photographs, and a postal money order, to the embassy in Washington, and wait over two weeks for it to be processed and returned (as mentioned here).
To get a visa to visit Cambodia, one has to go to the country's website, fill in an online form (into which one pastes an online photograph), authorize a credit-card payment, and submit online, and then wait about 9 hours for the visa to be emailed back. (Well, the site said to expect it to take up to three days, but did in fact take only 9 hours.)
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Date: 2013-01-07 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-08 11:47 pm (UTC)Michigan.