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sinkingfeeling

(51,461 posts) Wed Aug 1, 2018, 12:42 PM Aug 2018

Took me 3 1/2 hours to fill out my Russian visa application online.

They now have more information on me than the FBI!

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Took me 3 1/2 hours to fill out my Russian visa application online. (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 OP

I had a service do my China visa Major Nikon Aug 2018 #1

Service is handling mine as well. The form asked for things like my sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 #2

Definitely worse than anything I've been through Major Nikon Aug 2018 #3

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

1. I had a service do my China visa

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 07:49 PM

Aug 2018

I’m not sure if it was similarly complicated, but I didn’t have to provide them with all that much info IIRC.

sinkingfeeling

(51,461 posts)

2. Service is handling mine as well. The form asked for things like my

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 08:28 PM

Aug 2018

ex-husband's birthday. I've been divorced 48 years and had to go look it up. Questions about past employers and education. Asked for parents' full names. Most time consuming for me was listing all civic, professional, and charity organizations I belong to and every country I've been to and the dates for last decade.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

3. Definitely worse than anything I've been through

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 1, 2018, 08:34 PM

Aug 2018

And I’ve been all over the world, except for Russia.

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