Visa Processing Agencies

By Lee | July 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I just got my passport back after having it out of my possession for a month or so. The reason was because I had sent it to Washington to have passportvisaexpress.com get four visas for me: Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran. These visas are a real pain to obtain on your own and for Turkmenistan and Iran you need to jump through hoops with a letter of invitation, governmental approval, etc. so it’s a real pain. I was a little skeptical, having never used a visa processing agency before. However, passportvisaexpress.com came very highly recommended and did an excellent job. I want to thank them publicly on my site and recommend them to anyone looking for visas who doesn’t have the time or the embassies/consulates to get visas themselves.

I gave them a specific timeframe that I needed my passport back by July 2nd, before my next trip so I would make sure to give them a few days leeway. They responded with very professional service and assured me it would get done on time and it was. Additionally, it didn’t cost that much extra. Even with expediting my visas they only charged a few bucks on top of the cost of the visas so I was very happy and the price was right.

If I was to send overnight Fedex’s to each embassy it would have cost me $80 per embassy to ship two ways times four in addition to the cost of the visas. Also, it’s not like I could’ve driven down to DC either to get them because each one took at least five days to process-I have written many times on this site how much I hate the beaurocracy of embassies. So I was very happy.

Needless to say, I had previously gotten my Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and China visas on my own here in New York and I love to flip through the passport and see a fistfull of new visas. It’s a always a fun feeling and I can’t wait to see the accompanying stamps-yes when you travel a lot you become obsessed with passport stamps, visas etc.

Anyway, thanks again to passportvisaexpress.com and especially to Andreas for always keeping me updated on my passport was and for being so professional and timely.