{"id":39372,"date":"2019-05-15T19:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39372"},"modified":"2019-05-15T19:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:23:22","slug":"us-citizen-in-austria-help-is-at-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39372","title":{"rendered":"US citizen in Austria? Help is at McDonald’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(CNN) \u2014 <\/cite>Lost your passport in Austria? In need of assistance? If you’re a US citizen, there’s a new way to deal with common travel problems. <\/span><\/p>\n

Under the terms of a new partnership between McDonald’s Austria and the US Embassy in Vienna, staff at the fast food restaurants will help travelers in need.<\/span><\/p>\n

“American citizens traveling in Austria who find themselves in distress and without a way to contact the U.S. Embassy can enter — as of Wednesday, May 15, 2019 — any McDonald’s in Austria, and staff will assist them in making contact with the U.S. Embassy for consular services,” reads a post on the US Embassy’s Facebook page announcing the move.<\/span><\/p>\n

These services include providing solutions for a lost or stolen passport, and offering travel assistance, according to the post.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Memorandum of Agreement was signed on Friday, and the new arrangement came into force on Wednesday. <\/span><\/p>\n

Some Facebook users were supportive of the move, while others were less enthusiastic.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Because apparently we are too incompetent to look up the us embassy online??” wrote one, while another asked if the McDonald’s partnership would replace a staffed embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Certainly not. Our Embassy is fully staffed and ready to assist American citizens in need,” responded the embassy account. <\/span><\/p>\n

“This partnership is only one extra way for Americans to connect to the Embassy when they are in an emergency situation.”<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN has attempted to contact both McDonald’s Austria and the US Embassy in Vienna for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(CNN) \u2014 Lost your passport in Austria? In need of assistance? If you’re a US citizen, there’s a new way to deal with common travel problems. Under the terms of a new partnership between McDonald’s Austria and the US Embassy in Vienna, staff at the fast food restaurants will help travelers in need. “American citizens…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}