Originally Posted by gardkarlsen

Hi

I'm Norwegian so I don't need that many visas. But talking about ridiculous rules: when my wife and I went to the USA a few years back my wife had to apply for a visa as she travels on a South African passport. But it was not enough to apply for a visa - she physically had to meet at the US embassy in Oslo (the capitol of Norway) which meant that she had to fly there to apply for a visa. So all in all in ended up being quite an expensive visa due to the fact that she had to mett up at the embassy to get the visa - isn't that ridiculous?