The application form once again!


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Well I got to section six, but to move to section seven I needed a flight number, but I wasn't going to book a flight without a visa and I couldn't get a visa or even an appointment to get one without a completed application form.  Stuck in the loop.  After much discussion with others, I bit the bullet. I booked a flight.  It took a nit of juggling.  Fourteen days notice for work, an available appointment at the embassy, and enough time to get the visa in time to fly.  To many variables for me!  However in the end we got to section seven.. well not quite.  See I have a work permit and it has two numbers.  A bar code on the top with 19 digits and a work permit number with 18 digits, but where did I enter this information? Was the employing school a:
Well only 6.2 had a hole for a number, so I guessed that that was where I should type it! ..... So I typed in the number.  I then dutifully pressed the "next section" button and hey presto!  red type.  " The number must have 22 digits.  well it didn't.  It only had 18 0r 19.  Bugger!  I could put four or five zeros in front of wither of the numbers and thus give it 22 digits.   The system accepts this but would the embassy?  So now I have a flight, no visa and no embassy appointment an the available appointments as being booked as I type.  To make matters a little worse, China is shut this weekend and my contact is no doubt asleep.  Ill leave him message for the morning.  That'll have to do for now. But almost done!

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