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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by GUWonder: ... and for those who don't live in a city with a US Consulate that issues visas, they will have to travel to the cities for an in-person interview and lodge themselves for some period of time. And the visa outcome is often indeterminate and even foolish, with the only certainty that a visa applicant will be out of at least a few hundred dollars.</font> |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tasnam: I am getting the feeling that from the reading of this thread, I can't just USPS my application and photos to the Brazilian consulate? Is this true?</font> |
This is one of my pet peeves. My husband and I planned a trip to Brazil in late 2000 when CO offered round trips for only 17,500 OnePass miles per person. We're independent sorts and don't rely on travel agents, tours, etc. So, we tried to find out what was required to get a Brazilian visa. The Consulate's Web site did not specify what forms of payment were acceptable. They also were silent as to whether I could pick up visas for the 2 of us on a business trip to Chicago, where I would be staying near the Consulate, rather than NYC, which is closer to where we lived. We called. No answer. We faxed our questions. Our multiple faxes were ignored. At the last minute we went through a visa service and essentially paid double. Less-persistent folks would have given up and visited somewhere else. Fortunately, we didn't. We had a great trip- nice people, low prices, glorious food. But the do-nothing Consulate employees are short-changing their own countrymen, who depend on tourist dollars for much of their income.
By contrast, we just got our Russian visas back (also $100 pp- hmmm) after I followed the complicated but explicit directions on the Russian Consulate site. No problem at all. |
I have a mate who's a dual Aussie/US citizen.
He was in TLV, and went to get a Brazilian visa, figuring it would be easier/cheaper on his US passport. Turns out the fee for a US citizen was much larger than the fee for an Aussie. goodo |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by GUWonder: The changes of in-person interview are for foreigners coming to the US. To my knowledge no country of note (excepting perhaps Saudi Arabia???) has yet reciprocated in changing the requirements so that an in-person interview is required for us Americans to visit them -- although there has been such talk from other countries.</font> From http://www.china-embassy.org/visapassport/noticee.htm (popup from http://www.china-embassy.org/visapas...nglish/lq.htm) <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">After 9.11 and since the break out of U.S.-Iraq War, strengthening the national security has become an important goal and task of every country. Out of security concern, the Chinese Embassy and Consulates General in United States will cease, on and from May 1, 2003, the mail ( including express delivery) service for application of Chinese visas. Applicants are required to come to the visa office for visa application. If an applicant cannot come personally, he/she may entrust a relative or friend or travel/visa agent to come to the visa office for application process.</font> |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by StSebastian: China does. I know about this because I was looking at going there, but I don't know about other countries: [...] Applicants are required to come to the visa office for visa application. If an applicant cannot come personally, he/she may entrust a relative or friend or travel/visa agent to come to the visa office for application process.</font> But there's a big difference between the US and China policy. As far as I know, the US requirement is that the applicants themselves must come in person to the US embassy/consulate for the interview. The China policy is merely that someone come in person, but it can be a travel or visa agent. |
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