My work trip to Macau became a nightmare! A direct flight from Delhi wasn’t an option, so we booked a route through Hong Kong. What seemed simple turned into a crisis when my Pre-Arrival Registration (PAR) was rejected, bizarrely due to my passport’s origin city, Lucknow. That single hurdle instantly grounded us. We scrambled, booking and then canceling flights through Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, each demanding a visa we didn’t have time to secure. We were on the brink of giving up, but my manag