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Visiting the police for residence card and the consulate for legalize our marriage was no fun at all.
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This is outside the
legalizing of the marriage certificate.
We waited for a taxi. The entrance was very posh. |
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And inside, Uncle Ho of course. And to get legalized documents |
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Finished the business inside and waiting for
a taxi. Then off to the Norwegian Consulate at Somerset Chancellor Court. |
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First time we were here was on March 14th to get our Vietnamese marriage
legalized in Norway. We were the told by a woman that we had to legalized an
already official document. The certificate was already translated it into
English and the translation was legalized. Not good enough. No mentioning of
a passport copy or anything. English. When we arrived on the 14th of April, the story had changed. We had to have a legalized copy of my wife's passport. Either the staff is just incompetent or they mess with you because they can. Power people. All this back and forth cost us 866,000 VND or some 36 USD. Unnecessary. Lousy service. You can look at his face at uninterested clerk and see how condescending and snobbish he is. He doesn't' care for you, his customers that pays tax to Norway and his fat salary. He has only disdain for them |
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Inside, we were greeted by a grumpy disinterested arrogant clerk.He refused
to speak to Martin. Even though he spoke excellent English. He had a very
top-down attitude and he turned his back to Martin when he tried to speak to
you.
Even his Vietnamese was unclear or directly incorrect. He told my wife to get the passport copied and back to him. Then he told her to have them legalized. Deliberately show how powerful he was. Typical Vietnamese men in charge. They mess with you for fun. Not nice. Wasted our time and money.
Off to the police for Martin's residence card. It turned out they wanted his passport for 7 days. A No-go.
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are the service rendered at the cops. Very unfriendly and dismissive. On the road back we found this very good English-speaking driver. He was very happy and loved speaking English that was very good, close to excellent. A rarity in Vietnam these days. |
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Martin at the Dimai
restaurant not far from our hotel. Martin ordered cold cut and got HOT cut for some reason. |
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The kitchen or the
restaurant looked very inviting. But Martin didn't like his mussels came with Chilly. Shit stuff. |
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June and the beer wall.
Not Martin's favorite is there. Saigon Chill.
A night cap at the local street cafe around the corner. |
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On Saturday April 15h, it was time
to leave for Cambodia and Phnom Penh.