Did you ever get in trouble oversees? Need help? Jail? How did the embassy help you? Any experience you've had with embassy?
Any expierence dealing with US embassy?
Did you ever get in trouble oversees? Need help? Jail? How did the embassy help you? Any experience you've had with embassy?
Is there a specific question here? It's an embessy, 99% of the time you are going to use this is due to losing your passport. Jail is a separate issue but generally unless you are in some deep shit, you're not going to be used them and just pay the fine/bribe
I have done very ordinary business at US consulates and embassies three or four times—adding blank pages to a passport back when they used to do that, renewing my passport while living abroad, and getting a document notarized to sell a condo. They were very helpful and convenient in all of the above. But I’ve never had an emergency or serious trouble.
Ive been to two in Germany, Munich and Berlin, to renew my passport or get US birth certificates for my kids. Every time I encounter people that cannot read basic instructions or do any sort of research ahead of time for their paperwork. They are always missing something or didn't bring the right payment method. It says everything you need on the embassy site itself, yet this is somehow too much for these people.
USA embassy in Japan was absolute dog shit when covid first hit. They told me to leave because "well dood. If/when we close the US border, we won't let you in." It's obvious just people who lucked into a comfy job/country and never intended to do any actual work.
>It's obvious just people who lucked into a comfy job/country and never intended to do any actual work.
I'm a dual US citizen. My other country's embassy is the same way. They close at lunchtime for fuck's sake. Getting anything done is a huge pain in the ass. What luck it must be for someone to land one of those jobs. I dread the moment I'll need to renew my passport.
I was in korea last summer and the dumb fucking koreans told me I will need a pcr test in 3 days to leave the country. I didn't go to make one but I was scared what if they will ask for it at the airport so I called the embassy. They told me in a very rude way that I am a homosexual for not making a test and I should rot in eternal hell for it, so I spent my last day finding a fucking lab where they make a quick pcr test for a horrible sum of money.
And nobody wanted the fucking test at the airport.
They're so incompetent. I mean the local staff outside the building isn't so bad but half the people in the people are so bitchy and if you ask them anything they "don't know" If you actually need help for something they act like you are annoying them. If you need a simple thing like notary or visa stuff they will be irritated the entire process. If you call them they don't answer if you email them they don't answer. I wonder why the fuck they are even there. You also cannot bring in a phone because "oh no top secret embassy information" so you will wait around with nothing to do until they decide to call you up, and your appointment time is shared with like a million other people. Also charging money for notary is retarded, $50 for them to give it a stamp wtf
you are an inconvenience. their mission isn't to be helpful to US citizens. They are jumping and drop off points for CIAglowies, intelligence gathering, and fostering relations with its host country.
>They are jumping and drop off points for CIAglowies, intelligence gathering
This. It's well-known that embassy gigs like cultural attaché are just cover for glowies of all countries with major intelligence agencies
>Any experience you've had with embassy?
I work next door to the US embassy in Budapest. Some dickbag who drives a green Jeep Wrangler works there. He always parks illegally in places that cars aren't supposed to park, for example, blocking the handicap ramp on the corner. Last week, I saw him driving on the sidewalk to get around bollards that were blocking off a closed street before driving the wrong way down the one-way street in front of my office.
report his ass or better yet email
>[email protected]
stating your a journalist wanting to cover the disrespectful nature of US workers at the embassy doing what that homosexual is doing.
I can report him to CID internally. Do you have any more info?
>I can report him to CID internally. Do you have any more info?
I'm not sure if it warrants CID, but I'm glad to hear someone gives a shit. Thank you. Here's his Jeep with the number plate clearly visible. On the day I took this one, he is parked blocking the ramp cut into the curb (for wheelchairs, etc.) on the corner. It wouldn't be so annoying, except that there is plenty of parking in the parking garage under the square and (on weekdays like this one) plenty of street parking less than 200 meters away on Zoltan utca and Nador utca. Also, it's just the total lack of respect-- like a belief that the rules don't apply to him, and he can do things with impunity. It's galling.
Thanks! I downloaded it. Feel free to delete it in case the jannies get pissy. Chances are this fag is higher than normal in ranks to pull this attitude so someone higher than him he's not friends with will have to address it otherwise it'll fall on deaf ears.
meet me here for lunch tomorrow. Let's talk about it.
It’s a jeep…open the unlocked door, shift to neutral, roll into middle of the street, get out, yell loudly “who left their jeep in the middle of the road wtf?!”
So I actually had a positive experience with the US embassy in Kuwait. I was stationed there for a year and my passport was coming up on expiration. Talked to the embassy and they expedited the renewal. I forgot exactly how long it took but I remember being shocked when I got it so quickly.
The one in Tallinn treated me as an inconvenience..
A couple of decades ago I still needed visa to visit the USA. I recall university staff rolling their eyes about the forms they had to fill in for me to prove I do not intend to stay in the USA, cause it wasn't the same form as every other country used.
The embassy staff were alright, they very clearly only cared about the payment. I had the money, so they were helpful.
I kinda miss those times. It was easier to enter on that visa than it is with ESTA. They asked precisely zero questions on the border with that visa (presumably cause they trusted the embassy to do their job).
World traveler here.
>REMEMBER: Embassy/consulate helping Americans is (at best) #3 priority. They're there to spy and shmooze with locals/find business opportunity 1st and 2nd.
>I always stop by embassy/consulate FIRST STOP when visiting:
--...any country for more than a week.
--Get to know them BEFORE needed and will have better service. Lile anywhere else.
--First, tell receptionist you're there as a courtesy call, just arrived, would like a to/meet and greet whoever available
-Often sit down with Ambassador for a few minutes, in some cases several hours or other staff as I oohed and aaahed over their war stories
-Make a positive impression on Marine guards. Going out for beer (you pay) golden.
--Ask for any brochures/forms you might need, thank profusely
--Follow up with letter praising everyone--remember names--with copy to e.g. Congresscritter
-Letter of Intro from Congresscritter/state legislator a big help, always impresses. Let them photocopy but keep original.
--Always BE POLITE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS--no 'YOU KNOW WHO IAM?' BS.
--Do follow-up visit every 6 months, again, courtesy call.
>Above has saved my life, put me first in line, cut red tape, learned of opportunities for my business, etc. several times.
Good post
In Kuwait I got kicked out of company accommodation after my employment ended but I was stuck in country because I needed to sue my employer because they withheld 4k from my final settlement. The embassy sent me a list of lawyers (not necessarily endorsed, but at least kind of English speaking) and told me to fuck off because its a civil matter. Genuinely useless because I found the lawyer I used through Google Maps. She's pretty hot btw