Originally Posted by
alan11
the whole visa thing now is evolving.
It will be interesting to see how things change over time.
Originally Posted by
Xenochria
BTW my number for my JGA ERFS application was 439xxx, and the middle name correction that I received about 24 hours later was 444xxx. Sounds like about 5000 applications in 24 hours?
And, didn't we see numbers in the 8xxx and 9xxx range just a couple of days ago? When I first saw the above, I thought "Gee, this thing is going to get backlogged very quickly." Thinking about it a bit more, probably not, at least on the ERFS site and the issuance of eVisas (depending of course on the workload at your local consulate). Since they plan to raise the number of entries allowed per day from 20k to 50k as of next Wednesday, and nothing else really has changed very recently, presumably the extra 30k per day would all come from the new tourist ERFS system that starts the same day. That means the system needs to be able to process and issue 30k of these ERFS tourist entries per day, on average, if they were to hit the new cap. I doubt JGA will be able handle that many :-), but I'm sure that JTB and others hope to have their fingers in the pie.