Travel: How much of our data is kept through Visa applications & FYI you can claim from your travel insurance if your visa is denied or delayed
Early Breakfast with Africa Melane · 2 June 2026 · 8m
Speaker 1: Second, and it's early breakfast. Speaker 2: Ten minutes before five a m. And we travel across to our next segment with Speaker 2: Paula Martini, both author and co and owner rather of co travel. We're chatting about Speaker 2: how much of our data is kept through visa applications and FYI, you can claim Speaker 2: from your travel insurance if your visa is denied or delayed. Paula, thank you so Speaker 2: much for joining us this morning. Speaker 1: How are you web gridding yourself? Thank you so much for having me on a Speaker 1: this morning. Speaker 2: I love your energy. I the last time I traveled and I was very fortunate Speaker 2: to travel with the UJ choir, we had shinging visas and we've recently seen the Speaker 2: debacer around the team and I think that has been sorted out. But can you Speaker 2: just let us know a bit more about visas. I know the data, especially through Speaker 2: applications and being able to claim from from your travel insurance if you are if Speaker 2: your visa is denied or delayed, because there is that. Yeah, it's quite a lot Speaker 2: of investment to just forego. Speaker 1: Definitely. I think Lester's show the other day with the statistics that have come out Speaker 1: recently with regards to the number of denials and the value that's sitting in that. Speaker 1: I mean, it's so crazy, I even struggle to remember the number, but something like Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty seven million euros in total rejection costs for the EU and Speaker 1: Shngen, and sixty seven million of those rejection costs are sitting with African countries. And
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