Bonjour, j'ai déposé par l'intermédiaire d'un aimable ami deux passeports pour visa à l'ambassade d'Inde. Ils seront prêts demain mais j'ai un doute: dois-je aller les chercher moi-même où mon ami qui a le reçu pour le retirer peut le faire sans problème, c'est-à-dire sans moi ? Merci de répndre ; Sinon je suis obligé de faire 500 km pour le retirer.
comment as-tu fait pour avoir un visa en 48 heures ! je viens d'aller déposer des passeports ce matin à Action-Visas et ils m'ont annoncé que c'était le bordel à l'Ambassade, qu'il fallait 2 mois pour l'obtenir en ce moment... ils acceptent uniquement 75 dossiers par jour ! il y a la queue devant l'ambassade dès 3 heures du mat'
J'avoue que ton post me surprend et aurait tendance à me rassurer... comment as-tu fait ?
Attends... Comment ca refuser de prendre les dossiers? Je n ai que 2 jours a Paris pour obtenir les visas, et tu veux dire que, meme si nous dormons devant l ambassade toute la nuit, il y a des chances qu ils ne prennent meme pas nos dossiers, alors que nous avons nos billets d avion???
Je ne voudrais pas t'affoler... mais oui ! les gens font la queue devant l'ambassade dès 3 h du mat', ils ne prennent que 70 dossiers par jour et beaucoup de dossiers arrivent par coursier des agences de voyage
J'angoisse aussi parce qu'on part le 26 novembre et je ne suis pas sure qu'on ait nos visas en temps et en heure !!! j'ai jamais vu ça
Bon courage ! tiens-moi au courant, ça m'intéresse
Ce matin vendredi 27, lever avec les poules, direction la Muette... arrivée 7 h 05, j'arrive juste au niveau de la résidence de l'ambassade de Thaïlande -ça fait 40 mètres de queue ?! donc c'est pas aussi pire que ce à quoi je m'attendais et cette ambiance nocturne, feutrée, un peu angoissée avec la tête dans le cul est assez unique.
bref vers 9 h 30 ils ont ouvert les portes, j'ai eu le numéro 324 et ça commençait vers 250... faites le calcul, j'étais dans les derniers derniers... et pourtant ils en ont pris encore plein derrière moi peut-être même tous (environ 150 ?) !!!!???? il semble que ça varie selon les jours, selon l'humeur du mec à l'accueil, la lune ???.
Passer par des organismes pro des visas, la ça semble la grosse galère pour eux (même pour des entreprises voulant faire des visas business ils refusent ! d'ou peut-être les 2 mois d'attente annoncés) - PAR CONTRE, pour ceux qui sont prêts à se lever un peu tôt, l'idéal étant d'arriver entre 6 et 7 h, il ne semble pas y avoir de problème majeur. Je récupère mon visa lundi, et c'était même possible de l'avoir en express pour 93 €.
En sortant à midi, j'ai quand même passé 5 heures pour avoir ce bout de papier !!!!! mais trop content !
Donc c'était pour te rassurer, et les autres, parce que cette histoire m'avait aussi bien fait flipper 🤪
Maintenant je n'ai toujours pas compris l'objectif de leur nouvelle organisation -si objectif il y a??- et j'ose espérer que ce n'était pas un jour d'exceptionnelle bonté au consulat... so good luck, enjoy India !! 😉
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Ahaa!!!!
A y est!!! Je l'ai!!! Ca nous a coute une nuit blanche a Paris et 93 euros chacun, mais je l ai!! 😄
Bon... Retour de Crète a Roissy Dimanche dans l'après midi. Nuit blanche sur le bateau, donc tête dans le paté🤪, mais la rage du tigre dans les yeux 😠 : Direction le 16eme, au pas de gymnastique, avec les sacs qui commencent légèrement a plomber quand-même... Je passe sur les périgrinations Parisiennes pour les 2 provinciaux inexperimentés et abrutis de fatigue que nous sommes🙁...
Arrêt : La Muette. En sortant du métro, tourner a gauche, et continuer chaussée de la Muette. Prendre la rue a droite apres les magasin Le Cèdre Rouge. Juste au bout, rue Alberic Magnard, et on se rapproche du Graal😮.
Grace a VF et a vos expériences plus ou moins réussies, je m'étais mis en tête de faire le siège dès notre arrivée a Paris. Evidemment, mon ami me traitait de folle, et qu'il serait bien assez tôt si on y allait vers 7 ou 8h😠.
Résulat, minuit et demi, on arrive devant le numéro 20. Oui, je sais, c'est tôt, minuit et demi... Et malgre l'été indien, a Paris, la nuit, il fait pas chaud😕... Mais il y avait déjà 2 personnes qui attendaient!
Alors hop, sacs de couchage, et j'ai joué a la chenille sur le trottoir pendant 2 heures d'un sommeil réparateur🙂! A mon reveil, 2 autres personnes étaient arrivées... Bonne ambiance, tout le monde les yeux tirés en racontant les anciens et prochains voyages... A 4h, la queue commence franchement a s'allonger, et mon ami réalise que j'avais raison, et me le dit😄!(il devait vraiment être fatigué...)
On se regroupe, on va se chercher des cafés, des croissants a la boulangerie de coin, bref, un vrai petit camp de vacances.
Mais plus l'heure avance, plus les choses se gatent🤪...
Les coursiers commencent a arriver, et se regroupent. Malgre l'heure matinale, ils ne sont pas les premiers, et certains commencent a répandre des rumeurs : "de toute façon, ceux de vendredi qui n'ont pas eu le temps de passer passent en premier. Ils sont au moins 60... Pas la peine d 'attendre!" Mouais, provinciale, mais on a pas dit bécasse😠. On se regarde, et on se rapproche prudemment de la grille, pour tenir la position. Derrière, ça commence a s'agiter. Certains veulent gruger. D'autres essayent les larmes, certains même essayent la carte "chuis un fou! S'il faut se taper, on va se taper!"(véridique)
Devant, on est plutôt détendus... On s'en fout, on est les premiers😎, mais la file fait environ 300 personnes, on a compté... Et aujourd'hui, ce sera 75 tickets, pas un de plus...
Alors quand le rideau se lève a 9h30, on se précipite, et la folie commence. Moi rentrée, j'entend la bataille qui fait rage, les cris, les bousculades... M'en fout. Mon guichet s'ouvre... "186euros. J'espère que vous avez la monnaie..." 😎Oooh oui madame, j'ai la monnaie!😎!
On sort, et on va se cracher sur un banc, sous la tour Eiffel, en attendant l'après midi. Ils nous ont dit 16h30. On y sera a14h00!
Et encore une fois, bien nous en a pris😉! Une foule compacte s'entasse a 16h00, dans la minuscule cours, et on est les deuxième😎. "Vous avez les reçus?" Et comment que j'ai les reçus!! Je suis sortie avec les 2 passeports a la main, un sourire idiot sur le visage, extatique... Les gens étaient ravis pour moi, et ça les rassurait sur leur propre sort... Mon ami, qui attendait dehors et voyait sortir les 1ers se marrait : "on dirait que vous venez d'avoir le bac"
Pas le bac, mais une petite étiquette sur le passeport. Ca y est. On en a parlé et reparlé jusqu'a s'en saouler. On a economisé comme des radins pendant des mois, et ça finit enfin par se concrétiser!!!
On rentre a la maison! On dort! Et on réalisera demain qu'on va vraiment partir🙂🙂🙂!!!
Bon courage a tout ceux que l'aventure avant l'aventure attend... Ca fait vraiment partie du voyage cette nuit a taper du pied sur le trottoir et a fumer comme des pompiers dans la lumière du petit matin. Je le referai sans problème.
Mais pour ceux que ca ne tente pas vraiment, il paraît que les organismes style Action Visa ou Visa Express reprennent une activité normale d'obtention de visa après le 11 novembre.
Ne me demandez pas pourquoi... Je crois que je commence a entrevoir la logique administrative indienne... Et ca fait peur..🤪.. Il vaut mieux le prendre a la rigolade, et, surtout, s'y prendre le plus tôt possible...
Alors, Floflod, ou en es tu, toi, pour ton départ le 26?
Ravie de savoir qu'après une telle galère, tu as eu ton visa !!! normalement les nôtres seront prêts pour le 8-9 novembre donc on est bon pour le 26 !!! on commence à compter les jours... CA VA ETRE GENIAL !!! bon voyages à tous
bjr,
pas de besoin de se déplacer en personne, le reçu tient lieu de preuve de dépôt.
demander à la personne qui se déplace de prendre de l'avance et surtout de vérifier que le passeport remis est le bon !! (confusion possible!)
bon voyage
bonjour,
un grand merci pour tes infos précieuses et descriptives !!😉
en effet l'aventure a commencé à notre arrivée à austerlitz, provinciales et fiére de l'être,
nous nous sommes dirigées vers l'ambassade comme des poissons dans l'eau grace a toi et ton trajet minutieu juqu'au mag "le cédre rouge"etc...
du coup les jumelles, que nous sommes, ont pris possession des lieux a partir de deux heures du mat !!!😊
qui ne tente rien a rien premiers arrivées, premiers servies, ...😇 nous avons meme dormis a l'interieur de l'enclos
l'appel incessant des bancs à la froideur du béton n'a pas étè bien long🏴☠️!!!
ces 48 heures ont étè riche en rencontre et émotions !🙂🙂🙂
merci encore! trop bonne idée!🙂
les jumelles marie...
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