[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC-31 Meeting

[Mark Tinka]

The joys of travel... I'm liking it less and less :-).

Mark.

On 18/Nov/19 21:40, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:

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> Well is a nice history actually:

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> The “initial problem” of the online system (which I always prefer) is

> that you can only use it within the 60 days of the meeting). They were

> asking for a 1 year minimum validity passport, and mine was only valid

> for 9 months at the meeting time ….

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> Then the Madrid consulate said they only need 6 months passport, but

> same problem of only 60 days before the meeting, which was impossible

> for me, because I was **all the time traveling** in that period …

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> And they said “ah by the way, our system is broken, so we don’t know

> when we will be able to do visas …”

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> Then the online system reports that you need to do the biometry in the

> consulate … and the consulate told me “even when we fix our system, we

> don’t know yet when, we don’t have access to the on-line system so

> there is no way we can validate your visa biometry …” wow!

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> Finally, just in case, I renewed my passport anticipately … tried the

> electronic system and with the support of the local host which

> provided a few documents (they reacted in a matter of few hours,

> thanks a lot for that!), in a couple of days, I got the visa without

> the need of a physical biometry validation in the consultate.

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> Regards,

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> Jordi

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> @jordipalet

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> El 19/11/19 3:25, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka at seacom.mu

> <mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu>> escribió:

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> On 18/Nov/19 21:00, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:

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>     I tried the local consulate in Madrid, and was almost impossible,

>     but the online system worked very well and very fast.

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> Sounds like a feature fixing a bug :-).

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> Mark.

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