[governance] 2013 Preparations for MAG

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

I have found the French rather easier to get Schengen visas from in India, than the Germans, who require a German Schengen or other visa within the past few years to exempt you from a mandatory personal visa interview and biometrics collection rather than just submitting your visa paperwork at a local collection centre and then having your passport mailed back to you.

Local visa policies for each country vary in minor (process related) details at the discretion of their local embassy or consulate, even given the same general visa regulations that they have to follow.

--srs (iPad)

On 25-Nov-2012, at 18:06, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <pouzin at well.com> wrote:

> Apropos of visas, would it be easier to get one for Germany or Belgium ?
> 
> Louis
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> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [..]
>> On the Visa issue, getting the Swiss visa is hard and the French visa is the worst. The French will keep your passport for months. Swiss will immediately reject it and unless the IGF secretariat intervenes, no visa. This happens for every stakeholder irrespective of govt or civil society in Pakistan. The Swiss had refused visa even for the May consultations and every time I had applied in the past 3 years.It was only when the Swiss Mission to the UN intervened on the request of the IGF Secretariat was the visa made available. The French continue to refuse visas when one tries to participate in UNESCO activities.
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