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Cleopatra · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject:

Dear Usool,

They wouldn't send you the forms?!? did they give a reason?

This sounds most unreasonable to me - I had no problem getting the stuff via post a couple of years ago. Unless visa procedures have changed since then, or perhaps they need a visa number fromthe Min. or the Interior before they issue the paperwork? Or perhaps the person you were dealing with is just a cantankorous dullard?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

It seems that "usool" has something yet to learn about the way our Saudi friends do business.

Does he really expect these guys to do things HIS way ? That is NOT the way of these guys. They will do things THEIR way - and it is not always reasonable. If you don't like it, they seem to think then...........................

Cleopatra · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:19 am Post subject:

Scot,

personally, I don't get the impression that the OP is expecting anyone to do things "his" way at all. Also,given that his employer in KSA appears to be a "Westerner" he is not only dealing with Saudis and their way of doing things. The way I see it, the OP is just in the unenviable position of having to negotiate the complicated matter of Saudi visa application, with little or no help from his employers. I have not heard him complain about the "Saudi way of doing business" or demand that it be more like what he is used to.