{"id":26,"date":"2015-02-04T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T17:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2015-02-04T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T17:32:41","slug":"who-knew-you-needed-a-visa-to-travel-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Who knew you needed a visa to travel to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not us.  We arrived at the airport and upon checking in we were asked if we got our visas.  NOPE. They wouldn&#8217;t let us fly without it.  So we busted out the laptop (which was a last minute decision to bring) and began googling and calling consulates.  Melinda spent about 45 minutes filling out forms online and I called the New Zealand consulate. Luckily we didn&#8217;t need a visa for New Zealand, but we will see when we get there.  Fingers crossed.  It&#8217;s amazing how fast things work. We clicked submit and went back to the ticket counter and we were cleared.   Next stop is Dallas, then off to Sydney.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4791.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4791.png\" alt=\"(null)\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not us. We arrived at the airport and upon checking in we were asked if we got our visas. NOPE. They wouldn&#8217;t let us fly without it. So we busted out the laptop (which was a last minute decision to bring) and began googling and calling consulates. Melinda spent about 45 minutes filling out forms online and I called the New Zealand consulate. Luckily we didn&#8217;t need a visa for New Zealand, but we will see when we get there. Fingers crossed. It&#8217;s amazing how fast things work. We clicked submit and went back to the ticket counter and we<\/p>\n<a class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/?p=26\">[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scalfaros.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}