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Stephen Jones
Joined: 21 Feb 2003
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If you're applying from a Third World Country, then as a western professional you will often get special treatment from the Saudi Embassy.
Certainly contradictory stories have been my experience regarding simultaneous issuance of dependent visas.
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Dear baedaebok,
To remove the question mark next to my name - I'm afraid you won't be seeing me in the Kingdom.
However, if you're ever in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area, please let me know.
Regards,
John |
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Cleopatra
Joined: 28 Jun 2003
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Location: Tuamago Archipelago
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Cleopetra...yes it was my sponsor who requested the KSA consulate to issue dependent visas in addition to my work visa. |
Oh.... then I don't really understand what you posts in this thread have been about. We've been saying all along that the only way an embassy can issue a visa is after explicit authorisation from your sponsor (via the MFA). If you knew that your sponsors had requested these visas, why didn't you say that earlier in the thread? It used have saved a lot of superfluous posts. |
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Imdramayu
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:55 am Post subject: Listening to sponsor |
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The posts were useful and productive (and not a waste of cyber-space) because they may guide others in similar situations.
Sorry for any confusion. From the beginning, the MFA had issued a Visa Authorization Letter with ONLY my name listed on it. My sponsor faxed a letter (several times) to the KSA consulate here. This letter asked the consulate to issue my work visa and my family's dependent visas.
The problem was the MFA ignored my sponsor's request to issue dependent visas, and thus only prepared a visa authorization letter that requested issuing my own work visa. That was the crux of the problem. All the KSA consulates that I've contacted (London, Washington, Ottawa) issue dependent visa, no problem. As Stephen Jones mentioned, I'm dealing with a KSA consulate in a non-Western country so they may be used to not issuing dependent visas with work visas.
Most (Western) consulates compensate by listening to sponsor's requests directly (not going through MFA letter). The KSA consulate in my city was the exception (in a non-Western country). They were not listening to my sponsor and were, initially, refusing to prepare dependent visas. The consulate eventually listened to my sponsor and were willing to issue the dependent visas.
I wouldn't call my country of residence a third world country with a GDP of $256 billion annually (new figures from a recent census). |
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