First Visa Holder in NYC!
Quite an experience for me today - I went to the General Consulate of Montenegro in midtown over lunch to obtain my visa to the Republic of Montenegro (which is my exciting trip coming up in a week). It's a regular office building from outside, even though the location makes you realize that you must be in some sort of foreign missions (read: it is in the UN proximity). A brand new office but rather empty; there were two officers when I arrived and one of them was smoking! Pretty interesting cause you seldom see people have a cigarette in a restaurant or a building in New York now.After a while, I was invited into the office and I witnessed a fresh visa sticker being pasted onto my passport - how many times would you imagine seeing it in action! And the consular was using the scissors as he was having a hard time getting that sticker out - quite a scene! Then, it came the most amazing part of all. I politely asked if they have a lot of people visiting their country from the US yet, the answer was - "You're actually my first visa issuance!" Wow, to put it into perspective: again Montenegro is a newly "born" country, it is only been a year old. I am very proud to be the first!!!
posted by CalvinCK @ 11:14 PM
1 Comments:
hoho ... you will see more people smoking here, inside. I think it's more common in Europe. tobacco is super cheap in Montenegro, and they usually smuggle them from Albania :)
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