Embassy of Tanzania

Quick and painless— Now how many visa offices’s can you say that about?
Literally took me about 5 minutes to drop off my visa application and maybe 3 minutes to pick it up 5 days later. The most important thing to have is the $ 100 ($ 105 if you are using a check or credit card). They literally asked me «do you have the money» before reviewing my passport, flight information or visa application.
Now beware, after giving in all my docs they simply said come back in 5 days– no document was provided to me other than a credit card receipt. I thought hmmm… you have my passport and all and I don’t have anything from you saying you have it. But no matter because in 5 days and it was ready. To my delight, that laid back attitude in the visa office is exactly what I experienced in Tanzania as well.
Hakuna matata indeed!

Thank you for a wonderful visit to the visa office! Maybe I enjoyed it so much more because my visit to the Chinese embassy visa office went so wrong, but this was truly an enjoyable experience.
I called the visa office to find out how long it takes to process a visa application (5 business days), and the woman who answered (someone answered!) not only provided that information, but also kindly recommended that I go to the visa office in the next day or 2 since they’d be closed for a week for Christmas. Upon arrival, there was only 1 person in front of me, so I waited less than 3 minutes. When I picked up my passport, there was no line at all. The visa folks were very pleasant, and while I was packing my backpack up, made conversation about where I was visiting and provided recommendations. They even let me bring my bike inside so I didn’t have to bother with locking it up — which I really appreciated since it was a freezing rainy day. It was a completely stress-​free experience.
The only information that isn’t on the embassy website is that drop-​off times are 9AM-​12PM, and pick-​up times are 2PM-​5PM. However, I think they’re pretty flexible if you don’t show up during those times, since they let me pick up my passport in the morning.