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I also have had a few issues with iranianvisa.com. After sending nothing more than an initial enquiry e-mail asking how things work and stating my itinerary they have been sending many rude and threatening letters demanding payment and stating they have incurred costs I need to repay. Someone called Sarah from iranianvisa.com has also told me that I am being reported to the MFA and that my file has been blacklisted. All a little over the top I think.
I have decided to go with Iran travel agency Iran tour agency Iran tour operator tour and travel to Iran visa fly to Iran tourism who seem more competent and have a live chat button on the website from which you can get immediate responses.
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I also have had a few issues with iranianvisa.com. After sending nothing more than an initial enquiry e-mail asking how things work and stating my itinerary they have been sending many rude and threatening letters demanding payment and stating they have incurred costs I need to repay. Someone called Sarah from iranianvisa.com has also told me that I am being reported to the MFA and that my file has been blacklisted. All a little over the top I think.
I have decided to go with Iran travel agency Iran tour agency Iran tour operator tour and travel to Iran visa fly to Iran tourism who seem more competent and have a live chat button on the website from which you can get immediate responses. |
We have just waited for 6 weeks to get our pasports back from the iranain embassy to start our trip next friday only to find out that they have been reefused!!! BASTARDS!
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Excuse me for being dumb but, did you have an authorisation, then sent in your passports and they were refused ?
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The way the visa companies work (eg Iranianvisa etc) is you pay your fee, submit your application and all being well, you get emailed your visa authorisation code after a few weeks. In your application, you specify where you want to pick up your visa, in my case I specified Quetta.
At the Iran consulate in Quetta or wherever you specified, you pay your visa fee, fill in your visa application and give them your visa authorisation number and give them your passport. The following day, I picked up my passport with my Iranian visa in it. Hope that helps.
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still no visa...but I've got a number !
Hi, if you see my other posting I have now got an approval number through Iranianvisa.com, though they have no record of it yet at the Delhi Embassy ! In truth I only got the number about 8 last night, so perhaps they'll only fax it thorough to Delhi today ?????? Fingers crossed.
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I too just recived my visa code, brit passport in London. cant wait to get there now! I used Perisan voyages, which were very good, easy payment. Woudl use them again.
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Iranianvisa.com
Hi, just for hte record I picked up my Iran visa today, in Delhi. I went through Iranianvisa.com which wasn't without its (minor) problems, but it seems who ever you go with it's a bit of a lottery (and I cocked up by applying bang on Iranian New Year and by not having an online payment facility set up in advance).
Iranianvisa.com (Sarah) did respond to all my emails (though not always the same day) and did not tell lies about when they thought I would/wouldn't get my approval number, etc. I'd use them again simply as they worked for me and I now know what time frame to be looking at.
For the record in Delhi it took a full week from accepting my paperwork to getting my visa back, when I've read it is normally 2-3 days. Someone else here has been given the same 7 day turnaround too, so this looks to be the norm in Delhi at least. As such don't expect to be whizzing in and out of Delhi, particularly if you need a Pakistan visa as well...you'll need two whole weeks most probably...
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DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES use IranianVisa.com
Written by kkuran on Jul 15, 2008
Iran Travel Guide
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If you are planning a trip to Iran DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES use IranianVisa.com. It is an unprofessional, dishonest service, and quite possible a scam as well.
The website is very flashy, advertising wonderful visa success rates and low fees (only EUR30! For only EUR22 more you can have the visa expedited. It sounds great and manager/owner/agent Hamid Reza Tavassoli sends professional emails in perfect English in the earlier phases.
The thing is that the EUR30 or EUR52 is basically for nothing. As soon as you wire it to a German or Turkish bank account, you get an email saying that the actual visa processing fee is a cheeky EUR150. Hamid has still not given me a good explanation for what the EUR30, EUR22, EUR150 are for--but I think I know--they're for a really $#@#ing expensive visa.
As an American I more or less am required to go on a tour or have a guide in Iran. I checked this out--this is true. Hamid offered to find a guide for EUR45 a day, which is a competetive rate. What he did not mention at the time was that I would have to enroll in a set itinerary with four star hotels, private transport, etc. I protested that I was a backpacker and not overly wealthy, but he said that there was not other way--there was not a single guide in Iran who would be willing to stay in budget hotels or ride buses. I held my ground though and l lo and behold he found not one but two guides who agreed to ride buses.
I wired the money for the trip and the wire got held up for about a week. Even though Hamid knew that I had just a few weeks before I left the US to get the visa, for about six days he refused to acknowledge my emails asking him to get going on the visa applicaton. So much for the "expedition fee".
When there was no money involved, Hamid's emails became sparse, rarely responding to my desperate appeals for progress reports (I was leaving in a matter of days). Then I left for Turkey, where I was going to fly to Iran from and for a ten day period I heard nothing.
In desperation I went to the Istanbul office of IranianVisa.com, listed on the website and despite the fact that there were Iranian travel related firms in the area, the office was not at the listed adress and none of the Iranian travel agents had heard of Hamid or IranianVisa.com. IranAir hadn't either. I also sent a friend to the Tehran office but that didn't exist either. So BOTH OF IRANIANVISA.COM'S LISTED OFFICES ARE FICTICIOUS.
I finally got an email saying that there had been a long Shia holiday (I was not warned of this even though it would kill my trip) and that Hamid had been in a car accident in Mashad. This obviously spelled the end of the road for my trip and I sent polite emails to Hamid wishing him well but saying the trip was not possible and requesting a refund for the trip-related (not the EUR200) money I sent over.
The visa authorization came two weeks after I was due to go to Iran, about a month after Hamid began the "expedited process". I know the Tehran authorities can be slow, but the reason you hire an agency is because they are supposed to be good at what they do. One month for MFA approval is not impressive when you considered this is Hamid's profession and he had EUR200 to work with.
That was well over a month ago. Hamid has given all sorts of excuses, but the fact of the matter is that the money has not been wired even though I've asked about a dozen times and he's promised about eight times. I will update this post if Hamid proves that he's not a crook, but right now I don't know what to believe.
Whether or not I get my money back, I would advise any Iran-bound travel to be EXTREMELY wary of this website, which looks too good to be true and definitely is. Please spread the word--there are plenty of alternatives to IranianVisa.com and I hope that others don't have to endure such a sleazy experience.
Read more: VISAS Avoid IranianVisa.com at ALL COSTS and other Iran Tourist Trap Tips - VirtualTourist.com
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I cannot believe this company is still kicking about, they took money from myself and 3 of my friends in 2009 and NON of us got a visa!!!!!!
Magic carpet are meant to be very good, but we never did get a visa in time and ended up going through bloody Kazakhstan instead 
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Just to keep this post updated.
For me iranianvisa.com not so bad. Have got visa after 24 days, no problems, no hassle. Have british passport.
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Excuse me for being dumb but, did you have an authorisation, then sent in your passports and they were refused ?
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we put our passports, invitation letter and money to the iranian embassy in london, we wanted to collect them from london before we left, it took them 6 weeks to then refuse the visa but would not give us a explanation!!!
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Mike, this is why I ask because of what ad has just posted ! It reads to me that he put passports in for visa stamp without authorisation number. or am I still missing something. ( probably  )
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Iranian visa.com saga
Hi just for the record I'm trying to get my visa with Iranianvisa.com (for better or worse) and just got an email saying they are hpoing I'd have my number for Wednesday or Saturday next week (to pick up in Delhi) ?
I'll keep you posted how it goes as Iranian visas don't exactly seem to be flowing at present ???
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What itinerary did you use?
Great to hear from travelers using iranianvisa.com as it gives us an idea what to expect but I still have a few questions albeit a precursor to the visa itself...
Has anyone a sample itinerary either from north to south or vice-versa that they used when completing the Iranianvisa.com web-form?
Does the duration of the visa issued depend at all on the itinerary given? What is the typical tourist visa duration given by embassies?
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