Sweet memories of visits to my German embassy (in Islamabad) to get a "letter of recommendation" asking the Indian embassy to issue me a visa (not in such rude words, ofc). - Still, you had it merely hard. A Syrian MD I taught German simply had no chance to get a visa to my country. Even though the forms were manageable. (He finally gave up and works in England, now. Having lost hundred of hours+a thousand € in course fees et al.). - If it is "just" silly forms, there will be someone offering assistance for a fee. Most of the world is closed for most of those not part of our 1-billion-well-off world. And if even the lucky one billion wants to move for work, the world feels 98% closed borders, not counting intra-EU.
Sweet memories of visits to my German embassy (in Islamabad) to get a "letter of recommendation" asking the Indian embassy to issue me a visa (not in such rude words, ofc). - Still, you had it merely hard. A Syrian MD I taught German simply had no chance to get a visa to my country. Even though the forms were manageable. (He finally gave up and works in England, now. Having lost hundred of hours+a thousand € in course fees et al.). - If it is "just" silly forms, there will be someone offering assistance for a fee. Most of the world is closed for most of those not part of our 1-billion-well-off world. And if even the lucky one billion wants to move for work, the world feels 98% closed borders, not counting intra-EU.