In 2002 I was supposed to go to the USA for two mo...

In 2002 I was supposed to go to the USA for two months in science. Of course, a visa is needed. First a fee (this is the Institute), but then a personal stand at a temperature of about 0oC, in the courtyard of the Embassy, in a crowd of people like me in need. I quit after three hours. I never went to the USA and I won't go. How different it looked a few years later waiting for a Canadian visa: inside the Embassy, sitting in the waiting room, I got the visa within an hour. I may skip indiscreet questions in the survey, but you can see the American specificity ...