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

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

@zoec it's a pdf document i don't think it updates like that

[zoec@deadinsi.de]

@mynameistillian oh no oops

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

wait, i have a big brain moment rn.

my visa coordinator sent me an example visa form previously so i know what to put where

it was modeled after a russian student

and in russia they also have six character postcodes

lemme look up

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

are you fucking kidding me

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

that's right. square peg goes into the round hole

[praxis@pounced-on.me]

@mynameistillian lewd,,,

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

@praxis well i mean the european immigration system sure fucked me with this one

[det@critter.cafe]

@mynameistillian isnt the video the cylindrical peg going in the square hole, not the other way around

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

@det it works either way

[praxis@pounced-on.me]

@mynameistillian I've forwarded your question to the czechs I know

[mynameistillian@plush.city]

@praxis i think i found my answer...

[fairydoctor@spicycrust.pizza]

@mynameistillian SCP-055

[cadadr@polyglot.city]

@zoec @mynameistillian hehe double czech

*runs away*

[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.