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Ministry of the Interior: lot of 6 applications by foreign nationals to extend their visit (tourist) visa in Israel, 1982-1985, with fee stamps from 10 to 4500 shekels and 5 photographs of the applicants, from Iran, Japan, France, Brazil and South Africa - 6 Ministry of the Interior forms, ”Application for Extension of Permit / Change of Visa Category”, in Hebrew and English, filled in by foreign nationals staying in Israel on a visit (tourist) visa who asked to extend their stay, 1982-1985. Five bear the applicant's photograph. The fee was paid with Treasury fee stamps, with the State emblem, the words ”Agra” (fee) and ”Hotemet” (stamp) and a serial number, affixed on the back and cancelled with the violet oval handstamp of the Ministry of the Interior, Tel Aviv District Administration. The back also bears the stamp of the extension granted: the visit (tourist) visa, category B/2, extended to a set date, with the words ”The holder of this permit is not permitted to work” and the official's signature. The fee rises from 20 shekels in February 1982 to 8500 shekels in November 1985, a record of the inflation of those years: 1. February 1982: a French national, staff member (G.O.) of Club Med in Eilat; no photograph. On the back the rubber stamp of Club Mediterranee Israel Ltd., 74 rue Frishman, Tel Aviv, and a vertical pair of 10 shekel fee stamps with sheet margin. 2. January 1983: a French national, staff member (G.O.) of Club Med; with photograph. On the back the rubber stamp of Club Mediterranee Israel Ltd. and fee stamps of 50 shekel (green) and 30 shekel (claret). 3. March 1984: an Iranian national, a Jewish woman born in Tehran, who entered Israel in September 1983 and asked for a 12 month extension; with photograph. On the back the details of her children, born in Tehran, and of her husband staying in Israel, and fee stamps of 300 shekel (grey) and 200 shekel (ochre). The stay was extended until 4.2.1985. 4. April 1984: a Japanese student from Tokyo who entered Israel as a tourist in October 1983 and asked for 3 more months, the reason written in Hebrew: ”wants to travel”; with photograph. On the back fee stamps of 700 shekel (green) and 300 shekel (grey). 5. July 1985: a Brazilian national, Jewish, a bank employee from Rio, who entered Israel in April 1985 and asked for a 3 month extension for a visit; with colour photograph. On the back fee stamps of 500 shekel (brown) and 4000 shekel (green). 6. November 1985: a South African national, Jewish, an accountant from Johannesburg, who entered Israel in August 1985 and asked for a 12 month extension to continue as a tourist, sit the Israeli accountancy examination and continue at the Ulpan; with photograph. On the back fee stamps of 4500 shekel (blue) and 4000 shekel (green). Folded across the middle, age spots and small edge tears, a torn corner on the Tehran form and the officials' pen marks, exactly as photographed. Keywords: tax stamps / fee stamps / revenue stamps / Ministry of the Interior / visit visa / tourist visa / extension of stay / Club Med / inflation / Iran / Japan / Brazil / South Africa