Well fuk. I just washed my passport and I have a flight tomorrow.

dalta5billion

1. Find a friend with an NFC enabled phone.
2. Pass phone over it. (Irish passport has no metal cage.)
3. If it works, they might let you through. If Vietnam participate in the Epassport yokey.
4. If not, go ride a stars and stripes emblazened motorcycle around the country.

That is all!

Paddy Samurai

Deleted User wrote: »

Right.. My location in Hanoi. Being Vietnam. It's about 30 degrees here, Just leave it sit in the heat?

Ok Ads just sit tight and listen up.I have one question for you.
...........do we get to win this time? .Don't panic....I've always believed that the mind is the best weapon.
Just sit tight .....I'm coming to get you!
As for all our AH buddies.... I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had... Once! For our country to love us as much as we love it... that's what I want.

stovelid

Best thing to do is post about it on the internet to general mirth and ridicule.

Pabzzz

Try and put a few pieces of paper between the wet visa pages..and leave it outside!

biko

Tell the officials your dog ate it.

DeVore

Ads.... you are fnckin' blessed mate. Here is the person you need to talk to: Irish Consulate in Vietnam. As it turns out... they are in Hanoi.

From here: http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=5538

Embassy of Ireland
Vincom City Towers [8F]
191 Ba Trieu Street
Hai Ba Trung District
Hanoi
Vietnam
Telephone
00 84 4 3974 3291
Fax:
00 84 4 3974 3295
Email:
Submit your query here
Website:
www.embassyofireland.vn
Ambassador - designate
H.E. Maeve Collins
PA to Ambassador Collins
Claire Coughlan
Deputy Head of Mission
Bob Patterson
Head of Development
Garvan McCann
Development Specialist
Mags Gaynor

Gummy Panda

Forget the passport. Follow the Nung River into the remote Cambodian jungle, shave your head and set up your own cult. Just don't be broadcasting messages about it

Penn

Can't be arsed reading back through the thread, but has anyone made a tumble dryer joke yet? If not; Tumble dryer.

DeVore

Ads.... some more info.

If you got a Vietnamese visa you were put on a list of visa recipients and should have gotten that in email form... you should be able to go and buy the Visa-On-Arrival option.

But I am confused, you dont need a visa to leave Vietnam, you need a valid passport. To get valid travel papers you need to talk to the consulate and they can give you temporary travel docs.

Good luck mate, you have some long waits in your future.


Um, there are reasons I know this stuff...
>_>
<_<

Born to Die

Ads, just stay in Hanoi, it is clear that you have met a lovely lady boy and you are subconsciously trying to remain in the country.

Why else would you be washing the one document that will get you out of the country?

phill106

Are you leaving because you were accused of a bank job in hanoi? A crime you did not commit?
You had best escape to the los angeles undergound

Mickey Dazzler

Crawl down one of the Cu Chi tunnels and live off your own shit for sustenance.

cocoshovel

I get the feeling he's after abandoning the thread before DeVore posted so you might want to PM him.

Also, try not to crash your bike in a hurry to get your papers sorted

Canis Lupus

DeVore wrote: »

Ads.... some more info.

If you got a Vietnamese visa you were put on a list of visa recipients and should have gotten that in email form... you should be able to go and buy the Visa-On-Arrival option.

But I am confused, you dont need a visa to leave Vietnam, you need a valid passport. To get valid travel papers you need to talk to the consulate and they can give you temporary travel docs.

Good luck mate, you have some long waits in your future.


Um, there are reasons I know this stuff...
>_>
<_<

Mr Google has been living and working in Vietnam. I assume he needs to get back in after visiting home. Working visas are a bit more awkward to get your hands on.

Mammanabammana

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Ring AIB. I'm sure they'll love to help, and will do all they can to find a way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8OrE_wVU_4

Capt'n Midnight

just mentioning paper again

but use tissue paper / kitchen roll / toilet paper to wick the water out
press for a few minutes and replace the tissue when it's damp, add more and repeat


In general don't use heat, but do use air flow, fan or airdryer on cool




If all else fails head for the US embassy , though I suspect you might be late

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_ImnJrOA0

After a lot of rubbing, some Kleenex and a fan, I think I'm ready to finally start drying the passport.

Ah no, it actually looks ok now.. The ink didn't run on the important parts and the main page is intact. Still a bit wet but gonna leave it drying overnight. If it doesn't work, I'll go to the consulate, get something sorted and try forget the money spent on flights and booking time off work.

Thanks for the somewhat helpful comments. Ie. DeVore and a couple others. x-kisses-x

admiralofthefleet

burn the house down to dry it

theoneeyedman

Ads by Google wrote: »

After a lot of rubbing, some Kleenex and a fan, I think I'm ready to finally start drying the passport.

x

There we were all worried and you take the time to have a quick wnak ....tut tut OP

loobylou

Frill out the pages and put into plastic bag. Fill the bag with rice or salt.

micropig

1)Melt loads of candles
2) pluck loads of chickens
3)Fashion wax in to 2 wings
4) Stick feathers to wax and attach leather straps
5) Leave to harden
6)Attach to body
7) Fly to destination
8) ???
9) Profit

Overheal

IM0 wrote: »

ok Ill ask. why did you wash your passport if you have a flight tomorrow .................................................................................................................................................

obviously because he wanted it to look good-duh.

Sunnyisland

Deleted User wrote: »

Was getting it photocopied, came home, threw jeans in the wash for tomorrow. I'm not a smart man it would seem.

The front page with the photo is absolutely fine but my Visa is fairly manky. It's shlt cause I just got a one month extension stamp through a connection in immigration and I'd rather it didn't get scrutinized since it's completely against immigration rules right now to give them.

If I get a new passport, I have to get my Vietnamese Visa into the new one which is a seriously long process... And that's a Visa I shouldn't even have.

Fuk.

Can see you ending up in the Hanoi Hilton :)




http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=vietnam%20%20infamos%20prinsons&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHanoi_Hilton&ei=Q_2WT91M0YmFB8r60IIO&usg=AFQjCNH4PqePq-SSw_3kv8YAkmlKzqdbKA

Clogsworth

mconigol wrote: »

Good idea!

A clean passport will draw less attention to your chequered past.

Edit: If you really need to undo the damage put it back in the washing machine but wire it up to run in reverse. The reverse rotation will alter the space time flow within the cylinder thereby restoring your passport from an earlier time. You'll also get your dirty clothes from a few hours ago back though.

This will only work if your washing machine is equipped with a flux capacitator.

forzacalcio

Clogsworth wrote: »

This will only work if your washing machine is equipped with a flux capacitator.

Your theory is flawed, how will he power the flux capacitor unless he has exactly 1.21 Gigawatts of power?

xzanti

How did you get on OP?

mconigol

Clogsworth wrote: »

This will only work if your washing machine is equipped with a flux capacitator.

A washing machine is a flux capacitor :rolleyes:

forzacalcio wrote: »

Your theory is flawed, how will he power the flux capacitor unless he has exactly 1.21 Gigawatts of power?

It's not the 80's any more, modern flux capacitors work by splitting hydrogen from the water molecules in the wash

Jacster

Pull it from your pants at the airport and tell them your a realllly nervous flyer

Eve_Dublin

I remember I put my passport on the cistern behind me when I was doing a wee while baloobas in a toilet in Argentina and it fell in.

I call it my Pissport now. Badaboom ching!

deirdre_dub

mconigol wrote: »

It's not the 80's any more, modern flux capacitors work by splitting hydrogen from the water molecules in the wash

Not only that, but in 3 years time the Mr. Fusion home reactors will have been invented!

So I'm in Cambodia I left the passport beside my window open and it dried to a crisp in the crazy heat. And I might be able to get a one year visa down here aswell so I'm well happy.

Now to enjoy my dinner, my beer, chat shlt to other backpackers and have a night out. Easy.

FutureGuy

Deleted User wrote: »

So I'm in Cambodia I left the passport beside my window open and it dried to a crisp in the crazy heat. And I might be able to get a one year visa down here aswell so I'm well happy.

Now to enjoy my dinner, my beer, chat shlt to other backpackers and have a night out. Easy.

Like a fcuking boss.

myflipflops

What would you rate as the biggest disaster of your travelling so far Ads?

The passport issue was worrying but seems to have worked itself out so i'm voting for a joint first place:

That time you had aids
That time you sliced open your balls

Gyalist

myflipflops wrote: »

What would you rate as the biggest disaster of your travelling so far Ads?

The passport issue was worrying but seems to have worked itself out so i'm voting for a joint first place:

That time you had aids
That time you sliced open your balls

Didn't he also crash his motorbike twice in a short period?

myflipflops

myflipflops wrote: »

What would you rate as the biggest disaster of your travelling so far Ads?

The passport issue was worrying but seems to have worked itself out so i'm voting for a joint first place:

That time you had aids
That time you sliced open your balls

I've had some mixed luck alright.. But breaking the collar bone on Christmas day takes the biscuit. I must make a list of everythin that's went wrong.

Mr Benevolent

Deleted User wrote: »

I've had some mixed luck alright.. But breaking the collar bone on Christmas day takes the biscuit. I must make a list of everythin that's went wrong.

Hit by a moped
Going out with a ladyboy

Seachmall

Deleted User wrote: »

So I'm in Cambodia

You're in Cambodia?

Damn, I was hoping for a happy ending. Commiserations.

Gmol

biko wrote: »

Tell the officials your dog ate it.

and then you ate the dog

DeVore

Glad to hear you got where you were going Ads! I've just come back from a trip round Asia myself (shameless plug: http://www.flickr.com/photos/78645925@N00/collections/72157629369179129/ )

stimpson

Deleted User wrote: »

So I'm in Cambodia

A holiday in Cambodia?

It's tough kid, but it's life.