Dom Otto Asis

Make sure you enter your personal information correctly, including your passport details, employment details, and contact information. Then your queue number will be flashed on screen when it’s your turn for interview. The questions are basic and here are the questions asked during my interview: Consulate: Why are you going to the USA? You said you like backpacking, what’s your most favorite backpacking experience.

They also book InterCity Bus tours, so we also booked our ride from Dunedin to Queenstown for our next day’s journey. He showed us a couple of photos he took on his way to Lake Tekapo and it looks like the snow is making the roads slippery. One of the places to visit in Dunedin is the Guinness World’s Steepest Street which is “the” Baldwin St. From the city centre, we took a bus and attempted to climb (not walk) on Baldwin St.

I arrived at 10PM and the Kiwi driver outside the airport gave me a good deal of transport from the Airport to the City Centre. I learned from the shuttle driver that there are only 4.5 million people in New Zealand and 1.5 million is in Auckland, the rest are scattered all over the rest of the North and South islands. Fast forward to the next day, I woke up and had my brekkie at Queen St., took pictures of the perimeter and took the Airbus Express back to the airport for my flight to Christchurch in South Island. My friend Timothy left us (my travel mate and I) to the mall so we could shop for some food to eat while we begin to travel again Southward to Dunedin the next day.

The original plan to spend my holidays in the East coast of Australia has been changed because the embassy decided to deny my tourist visa due to my profile as a yuppy single dude with no strong ties to the home country. Bottomline is, I obtained a tourist Visa for New Zealand instead and applied for an Australian transit visa which allows me to stay in Oz for a maximum of three days each entry. My interview through the immigration went smooth as they have electronic verification system and the only question asked was about my accommodation address and the immigration officer stamped my passport before I could even answer. It’s a proven fact that I can adjust my accent when I’m talking to someone with a different accent.