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Wow, you did it.
As I told you, the most crazy person i ever met
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28 Oct 2013
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Originally Posted by klausmong1
Wow, you did it.
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Oh no! What did I do?
Update - went to the embassy in Dushanbe today... they took my application but NOT my passport or money and said to come back in a week.
Now why would they do that? Can't put a visa in my passport if they don't have my passport! Was an arse of a guy there too. Not hopeful...
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28 Oct 2013
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With "you did it" I ment, that you really got through mongolia and even further on.
Very deep respect for what you are doing.
I would not be able to do that, I am way not sporty enough to just think about it.
And I hope you get your visa problems sorted and have fun on the road 
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28 Oct 2013
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Helen,
without a LOI it is normal to take a week. They send your application to the MFA in Tashkent and it takes a week to get an answer. When you go back they'll put the visa in your passport while you wait.
We had the same in Istanbul a few months ago, but because we didn't want to wait a week we requested to send the response to the embassy in Tehran, where (to our surprise..) we could just pick up our visa a few weeks later. In Tehran it was also taking a week for the travelers without LOI we met there.
Good luck!
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28 Oct 2013
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Originally Posted by wanderer78
without a LOI it is normal to take a week. They send your application to the MFA in Tashkent and it takes a week to get an answer. When you go back they'll put the visa in your passport while you wait.
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Ah, now that sounds better! cheers.
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Hi
not taking the passport while processing the visa request is quite common in central asian embassies as you thereby can apply for many visas at a time and as most of them have longer processing times you save a lot of waiting time. Getting the visas in central asia this year was frustrating enough though (they sometimes close without notice and you have to wait one or a few days more).
Greetings from İstanbul
ps for the Azeris we took the online-application as theır embassy in Bishkek was shut down for 2 weeks (and it worked fine)
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Agreed
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