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Originally Posted by TravellingStrom
Hi Craig, hows it going
Did you have to send your passport away or hand it in? I had to apply for Russian one while in Oz and nearly missed my flight cos the passport was on the way back.
I want to get all the stans visas, but as it wont be for a few months yet(late July) it is still a bit early yet, but getting close to thinking about it, but need the passport for travel.
Just curious in your experience, and how you proceeded with this. Also did you need the letter of invitation? Are you doing the other Stans, same questions apply
Cheers
TS
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We sent away for the Russian one before we left Oz. The others we applied in London Kaz took a week, Kirg 5 days, Uzbek 3 days (we paid extra for that) and Tadjik a week. We did have to hand them over. We have 2 passports each by applying for concurrent passports as suggested by John Skillington at the HU meeting in Aus. We get the Tadj one back on Monday so that will make it 3 weeks since we landed and just over 2 weeks since we applied for the first one. With a little better management we could have gotten this down to just under 2 weeks.
But if you have only one passport you would be looking at little longer. I think with a bit of pleading you could get the Kirg and Tadjik ones a little quicker. A big thing is the opening days of the embassies. We missed the getting to Tadjik one on Thursday so that meant waiting to Monday before we could apply.
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