Travel
Renewing a US tourist visa in Singapore as a foreigner
Holding a Philippines passport means you will plan most international travel well in advance. This is especially true for trips to the United States. (Photo by Erica Jahn on Unsplash)
I hold a weak passport in a country whose citizens hold the world’s strongest passport.
Whenever I need to get a visa, there are very few resources online for how to actually get it done. I’ve even gone on adventures to Kuala Lumpur for smaller countries that didn’t have consular services in Singapore.
In my case, I was renewing my B-1/B-2 (Tourism/Business) United States Visa that expired in 2022, and was originally issued by the US embassy in Manila. I’m writing it down, hopefully to benefit someone is in a similar situation.
On Using Data to Choose your Next Vacation Destination
TRAVEL OFTEN - Data from the OpenFlights database can show you all the destinations available for your travelling pleasure. (Photo: Pixabay, public domain)
Are you having trouble making vacation plans? Well, the first step to planning any trip would be to decide on a destination, whether it be domestic or international. However, there isn’t an easy way to take a look at all your alternatives: what are the destinations to which the Philippines has direct flights?
Luckily, data from the OpenFlights database is available, listing a wide variety of air travel routes around the world, the Philippines included. We can use it to construct a data visualization called a circular dendrogram. All the direct routes from the Philippines can be laid out in an orderly, easily explorable manner.