Interview at Warsaw embassy - case transfer from Moscow

[ah-no 27]

On 9/7/2023 at 10:26 AM, rikko said:

Lol they're being lazy. I would regularly get ghosted by embassies, they'd give stock replies, Georgia told me to cancel my application but told me they can't guarantee a transfer (?!), Jerusalem didn't accept a transfer until we had tried to get to Poland through Spanish Schengen and were given single-entry only. 

I know you're avoiding Jerusalem but things look bleak. You can also try mass-emailing all visa-free entry countries for Russians... I recall a lady a VERY long time ago got a Central American country to accept her transfer, but I cannot remember the country or her circumstances. Also, to be fair, while Israel didn't like my transfers through Turkey and Qatar when flipping through my passport, they also let me and my fiancé in with some grumbling. If you can explain your stay in Egypt in a satisfactory way to them AND arrive with your fiancé, it could be okay. 

Some countries (like Armenia) have small embassies that could not take you on if they wanted... I'm not sure where you could check, but embassies that handle a lot of neighboring country's cases or have the manpower to take new cases (besides Jerusalem) could be a good starting point. 

Hmm, I was under the impression Israel was pretty much accepting any transfer request now. I didn't know about the rejection requirement. 

[rikko 84]

14 hours ago, ah-no said:

Hmm, I was under the impression Israel was pretty much accepting any transfer request now. I didn't know about the rejection requirement. 

It's probably not a requirement, others argued their case better than me and got a transfer without having to attempt Schengen route to Warsaw. But with an onslaught of transfers, they may become or have already become more selective about cases. Kazakhstan was accepting K-1/IR1 cases for a while until it became too much from what I understand.