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by kaladin_1 1195 days ago
If only you know the long queue you have to join now if you want to buy dollars from a Nigerian bank. Not just that you have to fill a form saying what the money is for which had better be one of the things in their list, you have to wait for months to get credited.
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Many people visiting countries saying "I have been able to use USD wherever I go, I could even pay for dinners" miss the fact that it's often different for the people who live there, who are gonna have to integrate with the local legal/financial process in order to get their local currency. The tourist hardly have to care about it, and then they tell the internet that there is no problems.