A day out at Pakistans Embassy
Having applied for my Kyrgiz and Kazahki visa via post I decided to get my pakistani Visa at the embassy. My Kyrgiz visa was incredibly fast took 1 day to get the visa by post. But not as fast as the Pakistani though.
Its a bizarre site, a huge party tent in the embassies garden in the middle of Knightsbridge and they also have a food catering and photocopy facillities as you need a extra copy of about everything you got with you even though you have got the original they wont copy it themself :confused1:.
I managed to get there quite early but to my disappoinment so had alot of other people the "party tent" opened at 10:00.
I gave my passport ,travel Initiary and a bank statement ( to prove Uk residency) he handed me a number token and send me of on a small adventure ![Palm Tree](https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/images/smilies/palm.gif) inside the embassy building. First you have to take your application to the visa application window , there another employee told me that I need a photo copy of my passport so I had to go outside and get one. Then I was sent to the counsolar attache for approval of my visa .
His office is on the second floor, he went through my paperwork very quickly did not ask me anything and scribled on the application paper and send me back to the application centre on the ground floor. Now here is were I did a mistake. I forgot to tell him how long I needed my visa for I assumed that ,like other visas, you automatically received a 1 months visa.
I only got 10days ![Sad](https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/images/smilies/sad.gif) (hopefully its enough to get from Sost to Lahore and into India) well the upside of this was that the visa only cost £19+£2 bank charges and I was able to pick up my passport 2hrs and 45 minutes later in the party tent ![Clap](https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/images/smilies/clap.gif) .
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