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Went grocery shopping this morning. While having breakfast at Arnold's, I met an Englishman. Escaping the always dismal UK winter, he came to Cape Town in December for a three-month holiday. He liked it so much, he decided to linger. When he applied for his visa extension in March, they took his passport and said he'd receive an answer in eight to ten weeks, but he hadn't heard from them since.

Since they did give him a temporary ID, he's legal here, but without his passport, he can't leave. Knowledge of his case is invaluable should I decide to stay beyond three months.

In South Korea, all I had to do was schedule an appointment at the immigration office, then showed up days later to receive my approval within half an hour, and this was in Busan, not Seoul.

Cape Town is one of three capitals of South Africa.


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