Well, turns out to get a diplomatic Visa, we need the World Bank to send some forms to the Embassy. After a couple of weeks, our contacts there were kind enough to send the paperwork for us, but the Embassy requires the central HR department to take care of everything.
By this time of the year, the World Bank is packed with requests for Visas and its central services operate in a first come first serve base. To make a long story short, we spent two weeks exchanging emails with the World Bank and the American Embassy in the UK.
The paperwork was only sent on Wednesday, the 28th of June to the American Embassy in London who was already more than sick of us after so many phone calls and email exchanges. It usually takes 48 hours to process a diplomatic Visa, but Thursday for some reason was a public holiday. The stress was huge and we weren’t seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Most likely we would have to reschedule our flights and start the internship later.
Bottom line...we got our Visas Friday afternoon, just the last week day before boarding to Washington DC. What a rush!
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