• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    it is still very easy to get a passport. I helped a friend get theirs last month, and more over the years.

    don’t listen to any of the ignorant comments saying it’s difficult to get one; they don’t know what they’re talking about.

    you can do it online or in person at a US Post office.

    fill out the application form, takes maybe 20 minutes tops, pay the fee (165$), they take your picture, you will get your passport in the mail in a couple of weeks, it lasts for 10 years, renewable on the go from embassies and consulates.

    If you have any questions about passports or traveling, fire away.

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        10 days ago

        As a swede in france, you can add the travel cost to Paris, only the embassy there has the biometric machine to do passports…

        Also the idiots in sweden thought 5 (yes five) years validity is a good thing.

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        9 days ago

        Venezuelan passport is 220 USD to request it, and 80 USD to pick it. Total is 300 usd

        And you can only request it on specific days according to your ID card end number. So Mondays is terminal numbers 0-1, Tuesday 2-3 and so on.

        And they only process about 7000 request daily

        Working hours are from 8 am to 12 pm or when the total processed is reached

        And the website doesn’t work most of the time.

        And that’s without going into the prerequisites

        Venezuelan minimum wage is about 2 usd monthly.

        Make of that what you will

        All hail the glorious socialist revolution on Venezuela, it is working as intended

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        11 days ago

        yea, but $16 a year for an instant 50-90% reduced cost of living with guaranteed high-pay employment and no income tax while retaining access to consular services is a pretty good deal.

        not as good as 7 bucks a year, but I’m not exactly going to quibble over the extra ten in the face of all the benefits.