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IEC 2014 Discussion/Stage 1 - READ FIRST POST BEFORE POSTING
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Hi everyone,
No experience with any of this, went with visafirst but was unsuccessful, an told that my Kompass account is set up and ready, what would your advice be for me from here on? Should I stay with visafirst and hope for best, can I try aswell as visafirst ect..?
Hi Eire,
To be honest, avoid third party companies like the plague. There are many reasons for this. One, the majority are ill-competant and are not as informed as you think they are. Usit are a good example of this as I've experienced personally. Secondly, you have less control over how the visa process is carried out.
People think that by going through a third party it will be more efficient. This isn't correct. Knowing the process inside out will give you so much more confidence in the process than leaving it up to someone else to do it. If you want to do something right, you do it yourself.
You also save a lot of money by doing it yourself. Why pay Usit 300 euros just so they can hold your hand? I've no experience with Visafirst, but I can't imagine it's a free service.
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Hi everyone,
No experience with any of this, went with visafirst but was unsuccessful, an told that my Kompass account is set up and ready, what would your advice be for me from here on? Should I stay with visafirst and hope for best, can I try aswell as visafirst ect..?
I would try your very best to avoid going through a 3rd party, in 2012 I wanted to get a Visa but had no clue about how to apply so I decided to apply through City Visas. It was a complete joke, I paid them over 500 euro to assist with my application and they completely fecked it up. They provided me with all the documentation to apply and talked me through it, I sent off my application which was sent back 2 weeks later stating that I'd applied for the wrong permit, so they gave me new forms too fill out, I sent them off too which were also sent back, they couldn't understand the reason for this so I contacted the IEC myself to find out all documentation they had provided me with was for UK residents and by the time this was resolved all the visas were gone. Never got a refund, never got an apology. They were useless, they advised me to book tickets and get my insurance (which I did) so all in all I lost out on 1000 euro. :mad::mad::mad::mad:
This forum is great, it literally provides every last detail you require to apply so just read through the thread and if you need any other assistance there is plenty of us here to help.
Good Luck!!!!
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I dont want to be seen to be putting ideas in moderators heads, but maybe its nearly time for splitting the "waiting lounge" thread into IEC Stage 1 , and Stage 2 threads? I'd say there'll be a large amount of information and questions on stage 2 coming up shortly, and it'd be easier to keep this thread for people who are hoping to get in on round 2 etc. I see last year they had a seperate stage 2/CIC thread.
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Kaizersoze81 wrote: »I dont want to be seen to be putting ideas in moderators heads, but maybe its nearly time for splitting the "waiting lounge" thread into IEC Stage 1 , and Stage 2 threads? I'd say there'll be a large amount of information and questions on stage 2 coming up shortly, and it'd be easier to keep this thread for people who are hoping to get in on round 2 etc. I see last year they had a seperate stage 2/CIC thread.
Just a suggestion
Yeah, good point actually.0
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