My, that was fast!

The nice people who run such things informed me that it could take up to a month to process my visa application.

It took them 8 days.

Any good bureaucrat doesn't take less time than he has been given! I should have gotten it back the day before I left! I must be dealing with substandard officials here to have gotten such a speedy response...

For those of you who did NOT get that Futurama reference, I am quite pleased that I got my passport w/ visa back in such short order. Everything is beginning to fall into place like the bricks of an expert Tetris player.