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<font face="Tahoma">The joys of travel... I'm liking it less and
less :-).<br>
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Mark.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/Nov/19 21:40, JORDI PALET
MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Well is a nice history actually:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">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 ….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">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 *<b>all
the time traveling</b>* in that period …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">And they said “ah by the way, our system is
broken, so we don’t know when we will be able to do visas …”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
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lang="EN-US">Jordi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">@jordipalet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">El 19/11/19
3:25, "Mark Tinka" <<a
href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu"
moz-do-not-send="true">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>>
escribió:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt">On
18/Nov/19 21:00, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">I tried the local consulate in Madrid, and
was almost impossible, but the online system worked very
well and very fast.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Sounds like a feature fixing a bug :-).<br>
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Mark.<br>
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