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This visitor’s entry/exit visa to Sudan cost the following:
- Postage to send my passport, visa application, and application fee to Ottawa.
- Return postage to bring my passport back, when after two months Ottawa had still failed to issue a visa.
- One busy day in Rome that included visits to both the Canadian and Sudanese embassies to Italy. Still no visa.
- Airline fees for postponing my flight to Khartoum since on the day I was scheduled to depart, I still had no visa.
- Two days in Den Haag, camped out in the Sudanese embassy to the Netherlands.
As fate would have it, the very day before I would have given up and bought a ticket back to Toronto, I finally had it issued! I think that when my passport expires, I’ll get these pages framed.
So remarkably, I still made it to Sudan! The paperwork was pricey, but two weeks there proved that it was well worth the cost and effort.
