#askfedi hey, people who have had experiences with filing up visas in europe, or czech republic:

[kym@ohai.social]

@mynameistillian that’s how i would do it too. given the size of czech consulate, it’s safe to expect that a human still reads the forms if it’s a fill-out pdf

[legion495@mk.absturztau.be]

@mynameistillian@plush.city This such a strange thing. But I heard that for packages from Germany to Austria (Austrias Postcode is only 4 digits) you may enter a zero in front and may still get the package.

[natty@astolfo.social]

@mynameistillian@plush.city is it an electronic form or a paper form?

It's most likely fine to enter it in the box anyway but make sure it doesn't look like a mistake

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@zoec @mynameistillian Well, some non-portable so-called "Portable Document Format" documents embed horrible cursed JS that could do stuff, but it seems the Czech are not using this abominations from Adobe.

[shalf@mamot.fr]

@mynameistillian Not funny because of your stressful context, but I laughed hard indeed 😬 — /airhug from a French-born living in Switzerland, having sometimes to explain the looooong and hard way to limited people that postcodes and phone numbers here are not THE SAME 😅 (the exotism and profound differences between these specific 2 countries, right? 🙄)

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

@shalf yuuppp. god immigration is a pain in the ass

[shalf@mamot.fr]

@mynameistillian I find solace in the fact that if we are still at the “filling in paperwork with solid chances of getting approved smoothly” experience of it, we are privileged (and given my demographics, me above a lot of people), but yeah.

[fairydoctor@spicycrust.pizza]

@tully @mynameistillian 👆

[frankhghtwr@meow.social]

@mynameistillian it can't be that bad...
looks
It's worse, way worse

[frankhghtwr@meow.social]

@mynameistillian If they want you to bring it printed, the safest thing is to leave it blank and ask during the visa interview to fill it out in front of the agent