So funny that we are using an automated computer systems to slap users fingers and steel their money.
I would think that in most countries if you get a new Visa that invalidates your previous Visa. There you go problem solved....
At least that's how it works in China for various tourist visas.
Why is it when we use computers we create systems which are not human friendly?
I'm a computer guy but the way the DTV application is working is not how I think.
Like if a scan your passport machine readable data and it doesn't match what you typed in they think. And this is more common than people know because of character sets from different countries and trans gravation to the machine readable the rules which are not clear to users. The machine should really just use it to highlight to the use of it maybe what you entered isn't correct because it doesn't match because the computer can tell you that when it looks at it.
Basically the system should just not accept you to continue to the next stage unless the data matches. It's meant to verify and help you to get it right. It's not meant to slap you on the fingers and kick you out.
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