Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Visa Hassles

If you read my China visa posting, this should come as no surprise.

I finally got my Chinese visa (an all day affair).

Next came the India visa.

India has outsourced their Visa application procesing to a company called Travisa Outsourcing.

I applied online at Travisa's Website for same day processing.

They gave me a date and appointment time to be in their office.

After waiting in line at the appointed time, a security/application processing officer announces that if it was anyone's concern, same day visa service was actually taking 2-3 days!

No exceptions.

I had to return to Saipan without an India visa.

So much for outsourcing.

I'm sure the India embassy has no knowledge of travisa's poor service; that is, Travisa Outsourcing getting people to their office with the promise of same day processing - then surprising the applicant with, already known to Travisa, bad news that they could not process same day visas.

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