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story time. Sunday evening, ~15 hours before my boarding from Paris I got a weird feeling that something is wrong. Turned out it’s my visa, or its absence. As a holder of one of the weakest passports, I’m privileged to fill in piles of paperwork in order to travel to any country. By some miracle, the lady from the airlines, that I initially called to cancel plane tickets, suggested what if I enter Singapore as transit, meaning that it must be <96 hours and I must go to another country after. We yolo. Watch me the next morning flying 14 hours with 50/50 chances of entering the country. Took an hour to convince the airline stuff to let me on the plane; the week before I sweet-talked the embassy to release my new foreign passport on time. 
Crossing the SG border today felt like I’ve won Olympic Games, no less. 
Idk if there’s any moral of the story, check your docs before flights, but that’s where I’m casting from:

passport privilege is real

my wife who is Nigerian and is a resident in Switzerland just applied for a visa to Thailand and they're asking for all kinds of unobtainable docs :(

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waoh. your wife is nigerian?

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yeah I get it and I'm sure it's not fully unjustified but I doubt the documents requested allow Thailand to filter effectively

they're basically asking for docs a criminal could obtain relatively easily but are too much hassle for someone just wanting to go on vacation

Not trying to stereotype but Africans and Nigerians have bad reps in Southeast Asia, especially in developing ones

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yeah it really sucks, it's so limiting and forces you to plan everything months in advance (+ you lose so much time in the process)

my wife is planning to get the French citizenship once she meets all requirements

that’s my favorite topic to complain about. I have another story how I lived in Australia for 4 years in a “bridging visa” and they did not give me a permanent residency

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