Why is getting a tourist visa so complicated?
Official visa websites frequently glitch and lose saved information, while customer support channels remain completely unresponsive to technical errors. These hurdles — combined with mandatory tour company requirements and endless application forms — leave travelers stranded for weeks, unable to complete their travel plans without major frustration.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1booking through mandatory tour companies
- 2resubmitting online applications multiple times
- 3visiting multiple desks at airport immigration to get documents approved
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“difficult to get a visa, must be with a tour company (I really hate going on tours)”source ↗
“Application was long, website didn’t work at times (I kept submitting my sponsors details but it never saved), no one would answer my calls or emails about website issues, after resubmitting twice it took almost a month for it to be approved”source ↗
“They make it so hard for people to apply as if its a first nation.”source ↗
Where this came up
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