Never fuck around with a passport.

In order to get a fresh visa while living in Nepal, I had to bribe countless immigration officials, in their offices, to obtain all of the requisite stamps, signatures etc.

Each 'step' cost me NRS. 1000, about $10. I bristled at the first one, having already paid the necessary fees. The guy looks at me and holds up my application, threatening to rip it in half.

After being shuttled through various offices and coughing up 7000 to get everything I needed, the fucking greedy office assistant takes me behind a bookshelf in some desolate library area (LOL) and demanded 2000 'if I wanted it done that week'.

Whatever, I needed the visa. Sometimes you just have to eat shit.