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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (90701)	5/29/2012 9:39:55 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219172

How Canada did to take more money from someone asking for visas: Its Consulate General says it provides the services of issuing visas. You pay and send everything (a pile of paper work to the Consulate General). Then they just send everything back with a printed page text lined saying, you should aply elsewhere the service is provide elsewhere in São Paulo to where we sent the paperwork. That was not in their official page. But what they did was to open an agency to deal with visas only. And that costs more money and they ask for even more papers than the required by the Consulate General. But when she goes to deposit the money the name in the bank account is a different one. Has nothing to do with the Consulate General official web page. The new joint is a 'business on the side' probably created to generate more cash. Wife started visa 9 weeks before departure date since she knows the travails of consulates of the negro countries I work in. We are now 5 weeks to date of departure and she is preparing to resend the paper work. Now tell me, is this typical of negro countries or what? What is going to happen (and I know the negro countries) is: they will deny the visa due to some paperwork -since the joint is new and most likely they will lose some papers in there- issue and I will have to pay a trip to both wife and daughter to São Paulo to apply in person which takes -they say- ten days.