Interview at Poland Warsaw/ Problems

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My husband went to Polish Consulate in Belarus to request a VISA for his interview at Warsaw Embassy on June 8th. The person there asked for the "original" of the Invitation /Appointment letter. The entire Packet 4 was emailed and we never got a hardcopy. Since there is no "original" what do you folks suggest? We need to get the VISA in the next couple of days apparently the person at the Polish Consulate says the VISA's they are working on this week are for first week of June.

[mikey78 6]

You can try a couple of things: ask politely if they could expedite the process at the Polish consulate, obviously they do have a lot more work now since Poland is in the Schengen zone; if they ask for the "original" present them with what you have, obviously it is the original...and if they still have doubts check if your case number is listed on the US embassy in Warsaw website (under immigration visas) as scheduled for the interview. It should be a proof enough that he is going there for an interview....Hope you get a reasonable person to deal with at that consulate.

My husband went to Polish Consulate in Belarus to request a VISA for his interview at Warsaw Embassy on June 8th. The person there asked for the "original" of the Invitation /Appointment letter. The entire Packet 4 was emailed and we never got a hardcopy. Since there is no "original" what do you folks suggest? We need to get the VISA in the next couple of days apparently the person at the Polish Consulate says the VISA's they are working on this week are for first week of June.

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You can try a couple of things: ask politely if they could expedite the process at the Polish consulate, obviously they do have a lot more work now since Poland is in the Schengen zone; if they ask for the "original" present them with what you have, obviously it is the original...and if they still have doubts check if your case number is listed on the US embassy in Warsaw website (under immigration visas) as scheduled for the interview. It should be a proof enough that he is going there for an interview....Hope you get a reasonable person to deal with at that consulate.

Thanks , he was there today and to put it politely they are not "reasonable" , and they insisted that he needed the original so I told my husband to find a color printer and print it on that. Our case number is not on the website it still lists May appointment dates.

I emailed both consulates the Polish in Minsk and the US in Poland and attached the packet I got from NVC. I asked the US Consulate in Poland to Fax a copy of the appointment letter to the Embassy in Minsk.

*What kind of ticks me off is that I asked NVC to schedule him in Moscow so we would not have this problem with VISA's.

Having visited this part of the world several times I can say they love their bureacracy. spl?

[mikey78 6]

I am sorry to hear that...they might be less cooperative because there's a lot of tension between EU-Belarus but I always thought they are hard headed only with the officials and government employees that apply for Schengen visas...Good luck with sorting it out!

Thanks , he was there today and to put it politely they are not "reasonable" , and they insisted that he needed the original so I told my husband to find a color printer and print it on that. Our case number is not on the website it still lists May appointment dates.

I emailed both consulates the Polish in Minsk and the US in Poland and attached the packet I got from NVC. I asked the US Consulate in Poland to Fax a copy of the appointment letter to the Embassy in Minsk.

*What kind of ticks me off is that I asked NVC to schedule him in Moscow so we would not have this problem with VISA's.

Having visited this part of the world several times I can say they love their bureacracy. spl?