Ireland`s visa so easy to get! (Part-VI)

Uday Hakim, back from Dublin (Ireland): I have got the passport in hand. Studying the passport, I have seen that the authorities provided me the visa but for a short time. It’s for a month only. However, the one-month visa makes me so much excited that time because finally I got a chance to visit Ireland!

I have come down from the embassy office and thanked that man standing at the entrance gate. Ireland’s visa is similar to that of UK visa. Color and design are same. It has also similarity with the Schengen visa of European Union (EU) that permits visitors to travel all of the countries in Europe.

I went down the stairs quickly with mind and body seemed quite light. My mind was roaming in the air after getting the visa for Ireland. The gateman looked at me when I was crossing him at the gate. Maybe he understood all things after watching my consoled gesture.

“Did you get the visa?” he enquired. “Yes, I got it,” I told the man. “For how many days?” he asked again. “For a month,” I replied. He congratulated me and I thanked him in response. “You're a lucky man,” he said. “How?” I cross-questioned him. “None gets a visa in such a short time. Not even diplomats here,” he explained with smile.

I phoned Dr. Iqbal and told him about the visa. He was exultant with knowing about visa confirmation. “Come to the hotel, we will go out in the evening,” he lauded with laughing over phone. I did not back to the hotel immediately rather I sat on a bench of the park for a while and took the cellphone to call Khademul, a travel manager of our office in Dhaka. He usually manages the air-tickets and some other issues related to foreign travel.

I informed him of getting the visa and requested to confirm the ticket to Dublin as soon as possible. I wanted to leave Dhaka in the morning of the following day.

A photograph preserved in the museum of the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland.

Khademul alias Selim told me that he had already inquired about the ticket. There was a Jet Air flight set to leave the Dhaka airport at 7am the next day. The flight might reach Dublin by noon the same day. He asked me whether to confirm it.

The problem was I had to get up at 5am and run towards the airport immediately to get the flight. “No problem, I don’t sleep at night if it’s needed. Please confirm the ticket. I have to reach Dublin on the day before the game started,’ I requested Salim.

My mind and soul was against to leave the park because it has already taken a place in the mind.

But I had to leave! How smooth the road seemed to be! It was looked more appealing! I took an auto directly to the hotel. Meanwhile, Dr Iqbal also reached the hotel room. Where will we go now?

(To be continued . . .)

(Uday Hakim is the advisory editor of risingbd.com and also an executive director of Walton Group)

*** Ireland's visa so easy to get! (Part-V)
*** Ireland's visa so easy to get! (Part-IV)
*** Ireland's visa so easy to get! (Part-III)
*** Ireland's visa so easy to get! (Part-II)
*** Ireland's visa so easy to get!

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