What’s the most difficulty you’ve had with getting a visa?

[Scarlett]

Based on the @nancypants question about the Turkmenistan visa and rather convoluted process related to it, what have other people found is the most difficult or most problematic visa you’ve had to acquire?

So far for me Turkmenistan has really been the only one with any sort of hoops to jump through. I suspect @Flashback or @PineappleSkip may have had some interesting experiences based on the more exotic places they’ve been.

 

[nancypants]

Well. Most interesting was probably Mongolian (which I obtained while in Japan), or possibly Belarusian transit visa that I had to get in Beijing

Hardest, no doubt this will be a controversial statement but…my Australian one!!

 

[RooFlyer]

India has always been a trying exercise - that is, convoluted and complex. Russia has been the same, although I haven’t done one for a few years now. I remember one of the questions was to state your previous two employers, a contact person with the phone number and address. Also, countries visited in the last 10 years with dates. Fortunately it only allows 10 answers there.

But the most difficult without question for me was getting a renewal of a USA B1/B2 Visa (I’m ineligible for an ESTA having visited Iran in the past).

Entirely web based, the website is clunky, frequently faults and sends you back to the start or, worse, simply stops and doesn’t let you proceed for no obvious reason. Any help is via submission to a bunch of no-help people I think located in Guatemala who might get back to you via a notice in the log-in section but that reply didn’t necessarily make any sense.

Whole process took me I think three months.