Can anybody offer me some information on the way the British Embassy works in Santo Domingo when a person is applying for a 6mth visitors visa to the UK and is being sponsored?
E.mails are left unread and phone calls are directed to an answering machine when I have tried to contact them as instructed on the UK Government visa website in London.
I have all the forms, letters and documents here in the UK to apply for a visitors visa for my friend, which I am about to courier out to Puerto Plata. My friend has his passport ready and is intending to take the documents down to Santo Domingo in person. Should he just turn up 'on spec' during office hours - or should we try and get an appointment in advance?
I am confident that he will have all the information they will require when he goes but as the postal service is pretty non-existent where he lives, the safest way is to deliver by hand - but it is a pretty long round trip if he has to return at a later date - and how would he be notified of this?
I dont really want to travel back to the DR just for this if I can possibly avoid it .
If anyone has personal experience of getting a UK sponsored visitors visa recently I would be grateful for some advice.
No lectures on sankeys, dominican love affairs or money grabbers please or info on US or Canadian visas - all irrelevant in my case!
Thanks everyone,
Belkis
E.mails are left unread and phone calls are directed to an answering machine when I have tried to contact them as instructed on the UK Government visa website in London.
I have all the forms, letters and documents here in the UK to apply for a visitors visa for my friend, which I am about to courier out to Puerto Plata. My friend has his passport ready and is intending to take the documents down to Santo Domingo in person. Should he just turn up 'on spec' during office hours - or should we try and get an appointment in advance?
I am confident that he will have all the information they will require when he goes but as the postal service is pretty non-existent where he lives, the safest way is to deliver by hand - but it is a pretty long round trip if he has to return at a later date - and how would he be notified of this?
I dont really want to travel back to the DR just for this if I can possibly avoid it .
If anyone has personal experience of getting a UK sponsored visitors visa recently I would be grateful for some advice.
No lectures on sankeys, dominican love affairs or money grabbers please or info on US or Canadian visas - all irrelevant in my case!
Thanks everyone,
Belkis