[English] I've just come out of the Belarusian embassy here in Kiev to get my visa
because I'm planning to study Belarusian the language I've been invited by
language school to learn Belarusian in Minsk and I have no visa. I went there
and they told me apparently in their system it says that I'm a person banned
from entry to Belarus so what the heck Belarus? I'm BFB? Banned from Belarus?
[Russian] Hi Everyone! [English] Welcome to Kiev and Ukraine so did you
know that if you want to go visa-free to the neighboring country Belarus you can
only stay for five days if you're American a North American like American, Canadian
or you're a European ,Western European like French, German or British but in
this video I'm going to be showing you how you can stay longer than the five
days visa-free and the bureaucratic process that you will need to go through
so let's go together and go get a Belarusian visa!
Welcome back to this vlog about getting a visa for Belarus and you may notice
that I'm not actually in Kyiv right now. I've come to Odessa on the Black Sea in
southern Ukraine for a few days while I wait for my visa to be processed so what
happened in Kiev is that I had to do everything really rushed ... one of the
reasons why I hate getting visas so much. I had my letter invitation that's actually
because I'm going to study Belarusian and I was invited by a school there in
Minsk so that's all sorted out so I got that letter. I then had to fill out an
application form which was like two pages long and you know filled out by pen.
I don't get a pen. I needed a photo. I had to go and get the photo taken in Kiev
and I had to dash to the embassy to the Belarusian Embassy there because of
course it's only open at certain times of the day for getting your visa processed
and I had some branches here as I zip along ... I'm actually in Park Shevchenko
in Odessa so basically I dropped everything off just about made it to the
embassy there was like 15 minutes before they would close and then then you'll
have to buy the insurance for your trip there basically normally they don't
accept whatever kind of a coverage you have already they basically I've never
heard of anyone actually managed in getting it on their other insurance that
they have normally so you have to buy special insurance which you buy in front
of the embassy and that cost me an extra pay an extra 10 euros or 12 US dollars
to get and yeah the visa itself for me for Europeans and for Americans in
general it's going to cost 60 euros for you to get your visa so that's how much
it cost me and if you want to expedite it like have it within two days and you
go to double the fee so you gotta pay 120 euros it's about a hundred and it's
probably about 135 US dollars right now or you gotta pay you can pay 60 euros
somewhere around 70 US dollars to have it within a week that's what I went for
I went for the cheaper option while the sun is so bright when I step out here so
yeah that was how much it cost me that's why I'm here in a dance actually for the
week while I wait for my these are to be processed. I'm not in my
home country and I was fine with the Belarus embassy in Kiev and also fine
with the Belarusian embassy in Bucharest in Romania when I called him but I had
actually called the Belarusian embassy in Brussels, Belgium and they told me
basically know we will now process your visa here because you're not resident in
Belgium and that means you got to go to London that's the nearest embassy
that will process it so that was not very helpful because why should I travel
to London and what hang out there for a week or even if I get it expedited for
two days and pay to be in London for no other reason than getting better a Belarusian
visa. That was definitely pretty annoying. That's kind of an overview of everything
I needed to do for my Belarusian visa. I'm gonna be showing you a little bit more
tomorrow in Kiev when I actually get my hands on it so there you go so for me in
Odessa Mama, I'll see you back in Kiev. So today is the big day I'm going to go to
the Belarusian embassy to hopefully pick up my visa this time. In the past
I've had a few issues but I have this little ticket so yeah gonna go down
there hopefully it all goes well then I can tick off this requirement something
I really don't like doing as I said before having to go and get visas but
this is an exception so let's go and see how I get at the embassy!
So we have success I'm here and I have ...
let me show you
it's pretty windy I'm not sure if the audio gonna come out very well but
here we have success Belarusian visa. I'm not sure if that zooms in accurately
for you but I'm going to Belarus ... going to be there next week looking forward to
making lots of content yeah you know probably the back story about how I
didn't get my visa the last time so this time thumbs up to Belarus.
Basically that's it for today's video I've got to rush back to a
Odessa because I have a hair appointment as regular viewers know
I have a little thing about my hair that I only let a few hairdressers is in the world
touch it that's why I got a rush back now to Odessa gonna take this BlaBlaCar
that you should see behind me it's gonna bring you all the way to Odessa.
Very convenient service and quite cheap actually will be cheaper than a bus and
it's there a bit quicker and a bit more in comfort so if you are if you like this
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take a look at it and I'll get you set up if you plan to visit this region
whether it happens to be Ukraine, Belarus or other places like Moldova, Romania so
that's it from this video and I'll rushing down to Odessa Mama
до побачення ['goodbye' in Ukrainian] from Kiev, Ukraine.
So that's not my play button yet but yeah who would have thought
that my hairdresser he has already 100,000 subscriber play
button from YouTube so heading for that pretty soon let's see how long it takes me.