9537: Research visas

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: NLaleau@aol.com
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Yeah you can do it all yourself, if you speak French or Creole and have
lots 
of patience and a good attitude and a vehicle to get yourself around. I
did 
my own stuff myself and it only took about three or four hours. A friend 
shuttled me around P-au-P and waited in the car while I went in and out of 
offices and got sent from one to another. But I was very persistent and
spoke 
French and Creole. I had a strong hunch that I was very, very lucky in all
my 
transactions with various government agencies (getting  car insurance
etc. 
too). Often I  thanked and congratulated people on how well they had been 
operating things since Aristide's return (and I meant it, too). I never
had 
to pay a bribe, either. Of course that was in 1996. --nancy laleau