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January 15, 2020ToThe HeadmasterEducational School.Subject: Application for permission to go on an excursion.Sir,I, on behalf of the students of class ten of your school, beg to inform you that we want to go on an excursion to Cox's Bazar. It is one of the longest sea beaches in the world and a world heritage site. It would be a great experience if we have permission to go there. Few of our teachers have already agreed to accompany us. We ourselves will pay for the expenses.We, therefore, pray and hope that your honor would be so kind as to permit us to go on the excursion.Obediently yours -NameOn behalf of the students of class XEducational School.

I have a friend from Goa who is an internationally acclaimed architect. He has a luxury car, a Vespa, and a bank balance that an American student like me would lay eyes on and weep. Last year, he wanted to travel to France and stay at a $40/night hostel.France denied his visa application. Why? He “hadn’t shown proof of sufficient funds.”Right.What was the real reason?A few months later, the same thing happened to my friend from Thailand who was seeking a visa to study in Canada. “We are not convinced you have sufficient funds.” Followed by an actual, written acknowledgement of what most governments would have dared only to imply: “We are unconvinced that you have sufficient ties to your home country to impel you to leave Canada at the end of your visa term.”I was trying to help, so I asked around: what would “sufficient ties” to Thailand have entailed? Turns out they were looking for things like: A family. A house. A mortgage. A letter from an employer giving permission to take time off.Basically: everything that an average 20-something who just quit their office job to go “find themselves,” almost by definition, does not have.Last week, my Turkey-based Yemeni friend texted me that he was going to visit Germany instead of the US because, for him, a US tourist visa required a written “invitation” from someone willing to sign a legal document committing to being financially responsible for him and legally culpable if he overstays his visa. (I’ve backpacked in 20+ countries and have never needed to be “invited” to any country that was not a self-described Communist state, and even then I could be “invited” by the hostel I had booked that morning, where a night’s stay cost less than a KFC 4-piece meal.)Hhhh.I’ve been traveling for the past year with practically no plan. I’ve turned a 2-week excursion to Thailand into using Bangkok as a home base for three months. I’ve rerouted to Myanmar for three weeks literally on a whim. An immigration officer has wanted to see my bank statements exactly once, ever (and in that one case, the country in question was, in fact, richer than mine).I’ve been traveling on practically no money, which is possible because I don’t have to have a plan. I book hostels for $10/night 2 days or so before I get somewhere. I book flights out of a country after I’ve arrived there, so that I can take advantage of last-minute discounts. I buy refundable everything. I get away with this because I’m American, which more or less means no one cares when I really plan to leave.Guess what? If you’re from India and you want to go to France, you have to show the immigration officer your return ticket (to your home country, not to London)… which can’t be refundable. Oh, you were planning to leave by train through the Chunnel? Yeah, sucks to suck.What happens when I, as an American, get asked for my “return ticket”? I go on Kayak to book the next refundable $25 ticket to Singapore or Addis Ababa. The immigration guy winks.The “sufficient funds” barrier that thwarted my friends’ trips? I wouldn’t pass it either. You need thousands of USD just to get in for a week. Why?Well… you can draw your own conclusions.Although international backpacking is overwhelmingly an activity pursued by people from wealthy Western countries, I’ve met backpackers from everywhere from Tunisia to Indonesia to Brazil. But, in nearly every case, they’ve needed to plan so much more, to bring so much more money to the table upfront, to just do everything to prove they mean what they say.If that were the experience I could expect from backpacking, I can’t say I’d be terribly enthused about the lifestyle either.

There are 2 possible answers for your question, depending on the context, that I can think of.One is a subordinate asking for a leave of absence, especially for an extended length of time.The other is a permission slip for a student to leave the school premises by the parent, either for an educational excursion, or because the student’s family needs to take him out for family reasons, or Dr. appointments, family celebrations, etc.