Government is not the same everywhere.

The Visitor Visa story.

The morning of the 26^th we walk down to the embassy to apply for our visitor visa’s but are saddened to find out that the person who “does the visas” is not in until the 27^th.  Now we have to come back down here again tomorrow. We wake up early as always and make a quick light breakfast then head down to the Embassy, we are once again told that she is not in but for sure will be back on Monday. We could also save some time, LOL, if we were to leave all the documents required so that they could process the applications first thing in the morning. The only issue is that we needed a letter from the Canadian Embassy in addition to copies or our passports, copies of our entry slips, copies of credit cards. So we zip over to the Canadian building which is like Fort Knox.

The entry process into the Canadian Embassy is like going through airport security. Once inside the cold white concrete bunker of an Embassy, a lady takes our passports and returns with an official looking letter, written in Spanish, and sends us on our way. Back towards the Paraguay office, we drive around in circles a bit looking for somewhere to get copies made (neither embassy would make copies), we find a spot that also sells deli-style lunches. We finally make it back to the Paraguay Embassy and drop off all the paperwork. On Monday morning we head back one last time at the prescribed time of 11:00, we are met by the same gentleman who apologizes that the visas are not ready because he forgot to ask for our passports on Friday. The staff all work very fast to get the two visas made before their 12:00 closing time.

Yay, we have our visitor visas for Paraguay.