OK, so, woke up this morning, called the post office (0800 hours), still no delivery even to the first delivery centre from which the parcel can be traced (one is really starting to wonder why you bloody pay for registered post in the first place…). We ask if there's any way it could possibly already be at the post office, they say no, definitely not, it's supposed to go through 2 check points before that and there's no trace of it. They say we should initiate ...

Well, well, well...surprise surprise! It's 3 days til the flight I'm booked on to LA and still no passport or visa. To say I was slightly ticked off would be the understatement of the century. If it weren't for the fact that I actually still really want to go to their country and am afraid they would take revenge against me by denying me entry, I would have written the US consulate a rather terse email of complaint by now.Unfortunately I'm at their mercy so must ...

Hello all! It's been a few days and as such I have many stories and updates to report…For starters, things at the US consulate seemed to go well, and they told me on the day that they had decided to grant me the US visa. I looked through the glass at the man with pleading eyes and said "So…I don't spose you could just stamp it then, and you know, just give it to me now…?" but it seems that's not the way "their system" works (and my, what...