Bureaucracy strikes again. I asked my favourite travel agency to fax the visas for my family to the Drukair station managers at the respective airports, but they refused to send the one for my brother on the grounds that it said he was coming by land.
I pointed out that it had the correct name, the correct passport number, the correct nationality, the correct dates and clearly stated that he had permission to enter Bhutan. The only indication that he might be coming by land was that it was addressed to the visa officer in Phuntsholing, a road entry. Clearly a mistake by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but not a big deal as far as I was concerned.
They told me that the station manager at Kolkata would throw it away since it wasn’t addressed to him. Easily solved, I thought, and crossed out the existing address to write the new one.
Not good enough.
I had to go back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get a corrected version.