Gail, I will look forward to your report!

For the record, I wanted to report that in the end I decided to apply for my visa in Canada. I got freaked out that my VOA through Santa Maria might be declined and I wouldn't know until almost departure.

So I applied to the Myanmar Embassy in Canada. It took exactly 2 weeks to process including return courier times. It cost me about $75 all in, including photo costs....about $25 more than the all in cost for VOA. But I now have it in hand. For me, the extra $25 has been worth the reduction in anxiety.

I am glad you did too. I know that I never like leaving things to chance or other peoples control. I guess you are getting excited about going, I know I am.

I always prefer to have my visa in hand, so I KNOW I will not have any problems. I too would consider the extra £££ worth it. Hope you will do a trip report? Myanmar is now one of my most favourite places I have visited and we only had a very short 6 days there.

I dont know what I would do without this website. Ok - two questions.
1. We are going to Burma In January - working on the visa applications. Do I need to fed-ex them separately or can they go together , and can I use one return fed-ex - or do I need two?
2. I arranged my flight from BKK to Rangoon - and have the itinerary. Santa Maria is arranging the flight back to BKK. They are not responding to my repeated requests for evidence of the flight back to BKK. I do have the flight number. Is that enough evidence for the visa?

I called the embassy in DC and got a fast busy signal.....

Thanks in advance for your help...

You can fedex them in one envelope and have them returned in one fedex envelope. Sorry, I can't help with the other question. After many repeated tries, i finally did get someone to answer at the Embassy.

What dates in Jan. will you be in Myanmar. We are going mid Jan. to early Feb. BTW, I sent SM an email last Thursday and have not had a reply as yet, so maybe there is a problem with their email.