firehazard wrote:Eckhard wrote:Anybody interested in tickets for Duran Duran ( May 28th )? I had bought tickets as a wedding day present for my wife, but due to the ridiculuous visa regulations for non-EU-citizens, we decided to cancel the trip :-/
Where is the gig, Eckhard? Not that I'm available that night anyway, but it might be of interest to someone else...
Shame your trip won't work out. It's a long time since we've had talk of visa restrictions on these boards.
Sorry I forgot to mention it: It is in London. The O2 arena
Concerning visa restrictions: Five years ago to get a visa for Sanja meant: Filling out the form, sending photographs and form to the embassy and paysome money
2011: Filling out the form, and then travelling to the embassy ( or rather the company to which the embassy has sourced out its visa management ) where Sanja would have to give fingerprints of all fingers available and get photographed with some special biometric camera ( even though she already has biometric pictures in her passport ). And, btw, additionally that fucking information hotline charges you 2 bloody Euro per minute.
As much as I love the United Kingdom - this really sucks. And as much as we would have loved to travel to London once again: Too much is too much. We are not willing to undergo such sillyness just for three days in London.
And btw: My wife is in Germany since the mid70s, she has a permanent visa for Schengen and is married to a EU-citizen. This is just crazy.