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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I hope you are not disappointed tomorrow, but I do wonder whether they will be spending the night dreaming up some new form that they 'forgot' to get you to fill in!
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I'm sure that we will get the visas tomorrow. Of course, I'm quite sure that yesterday will get better too. I maintain as much optimism as possible.
What they 'could have done' was say that I didn't
present them properly. The Thai Consulate in Perth, Australia require that you make three separate bundles of all the required documents together, while the Thai Consulate in Osaka requires you to make individual bundles of the Original Document + two copies of EACH document. Today I handed in 8 separate bundles plus two individual sealed documents. But as they accepted them, and told me to come back to pick up the visas, I'm sure that part is finished. Of course, even though these are One-year visas, they have to be renewed in Thailand every 90 days...
But now we are starting on the forms for Felicity... and so far, we have found three conflicting sets of instructions and documents, depending upon which Embassy or Consulate we follow. That was one of the same problems I faced with our visa documents; one Consulate said we needed 'this' form, while another Consulate said we needed to use 'that' form, etc., etc. And all of it has to channel through the Embassy for 'our' type of visa (Thailand offers a half dozen different types, each with different requirements) which has its own version of which forms to use... Even within the same Consulate, the 'requirements' and 'results' differ. I only made the application this early (we won't move until the beginning of June) because the Osaka Consulate told us that it would take 4-6 weeks for the Visa type we applied for to process. This morning they told me I could pick it up tomorrow... I'm also going to get the Animal Importation documents that they have at this Consulate... and pray a lot.
Stitchawl