{"id":370,"date":"2008-08-08T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2008-08-19T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T08:54:11","slug":"ive-got-my-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/ive-got-my-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got My Visa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There we go. Last thing I definitely needed to arrange before going to Istanbul for half a year. Looks like it&#8217;s a single entry visa though, meaning I can only visit the country <em>once<\/em> during these 6 months. I wonder if that means that if I leave the country, I have to get a new one. It wouldn&#8217;t be a problem, if it wasn&#8217;t for the residence permit I&#8217;m supposed to have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-371 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/visum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/visum.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/visum-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I checked the form I handed in to the embassy (I made a copy of it) and I requested multiple entry, so I&#8217;ll call in Monday to see if I can get things fixed. After all, I&#8217;ve got a lot of people in Bulgaria that I want to visit if I&#8217;m living that close to them, I might want to visit some other of Turkey&#8217;s neighbouring countries, and maybe I&#8217;d like to go home for Christmas or any other reason, who knows.<\/p>\n<p>Feel a lot more relaxed having handled this though. Especially since I probably won&#8217;t have to go to that dreadful place called Rotterdam anymore. Unless, of course, I get a multiple entry visa. Besides all of that&#8230; I&#8217;m so ready to get out of this rainy weather and head over to Istanbul for some serious adventures \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish consulate was quite the place also&#8230; It&#8217;s like you step out of Holland and into Turkey just through one door. You enter a small security booth and then walk into a room with 95% Turkish people, Turkish signs only, and a few lost Dutch faces. Thankfully most employees speak Dutch and else they speak English.<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul here I come!<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to stay up to date about my travels, you can subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/basbasbas.com\/blog\/feed\/\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1139007&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/ds\/badge2.js\" badgetype=\"medium\">http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/ive-got-my-visa\/<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There we go. Last thing I definitely needed to arrange before going to Istanbul for half a year. Looks like it&#8217;s a single entry visa though, meaning I can only visit the country once during these 6 months. I wonder if that means that if I leave the country, I have to get a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,18],"tags":[331,361,1030,362,444],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-study","category-travel","tag-istanbul","tag-preparation","tag-travel","tag-turkey","tag-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}