{"id":2089,"date":"2021-07-14T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2021-07-17T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:29:44","slug":"desperate-australian-mother-stranded-in-nepal-with-daughter-furious-at-embassy-response-to-her-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Australian mother stranded in Nepal with daughter furious at embassy response to her plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2093\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A desperate mum stranded in Nepal and trying to return home has been infuriated by a bland response to her plea for help from Australian authorities.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ext-gen46\" class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Pragya&#8217;s toddler daughter&#8217;s Nepalese visa expires on August 10, but the soonest she could get a flight was August 23.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ext-gen48\" class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The gap between the visa expiration and her flights from Kathmandu potentially place them at risk of detention in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The mum-of-three sent an urgent plea to the Australian embassy but was told, &#8216;you should try to bring forward her flight&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We would suggest you work with travel providers and\/or airlines to secure a flight for her and yourself prior to August 10, 2021.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;They send me this email, as if I haven&#8217;t tried to do that,&#8217; Pragya fumed in a post on Facebook group for stranded Australians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I am so p***ed off want to complain but I don&#8217;t know where to complain.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Pragya is one of more than 14,000 people in the group, which is a forum for expats to detail their frustrations in trying to return home during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">About 10,000 of those are in India, one of the worst-affected nations by Covid, with more than 400,000 deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The US, with 623,000, remains by far the worst-hit, with nearly 90,000 more deaths than Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An online search for flights from Kathmandu to Sydney shows there are no available flights before September 30 &#8211; and that one costs US$75,624 (AU$101,310)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fellow members in the group had more savvy advice for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Trust me, no country likes to put anyone in detention because it costs them a place plus money to feed someone. So somehow that will work out to your advantage,&#8217; one man wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He suggested using a list of flight cancellations and a contact name at the Australian embassy to plead with Nepalese authorities to grant an extra two-week extension to the visa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Daily Mail Australia reached out to Pragya, the Australian Embassy, Nepal, and Honorary Consulate General of Nepal for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A desperate mum stranded in Nepal and trying to return home has been infuriated by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,4],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg",634,633,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg",634,633,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg",634,633,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg",634,633,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg",634,633,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg",634,633,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at-634x475.jpg",634,475,true],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Desperate-Australian-mother-stranded-in-Nepal-with-daughter-furious-at.jpg",315,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=36\" rel=\"category\">Children<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=39\" rel=\"category\">Non Residence<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}