Uzbekistan Embassy in London, UK

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Why are the people that work in the Uzbekistan Embassy in London the laziest people on this planet? I have tried for 4 days to contact the embassy about a visa application and nobody answers the phone most of the time. When they do they just say call back later or tomorrow! Is anyone else having this problem?

I sometimes wonder whether the Uzbekistan government just wants to create an isolationist society and not have any visitors to travel to Uzbekistan.

It took my friend in Tashkent 3 months to get an invitation approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All they did was drag it out for as long as possible and ask for more and more money each time she visited the Ministry in Tashkent. How corrupt is that?

Having waited 3 months already to get an invitation approved, i'm now having to wait even longer just get a visa because the embassy staff can't be bothered to answer their phones.

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No, my invitiation is ready! My friend in Tashkent spent 3 months getting the invitation approved on the Uzbekistan side. I just need to make contact with the Embassy staff in London to give them the Telex number for my invitation. Then I need to apply for a visa as a private visitor. It's just trying to call the number: nobody answers the phone!

[Crazy Diamond]

No, my invitiation is ready! My friend in Tashkent spent 3 months getting the invitation approved on the Uzbekistan side. I just need to make contact with the Embassy staff in London to give them the Telex number for my invitation. Then I need to apply for a visa as a private visitor. It's just trying to call the number: nobody answers the phone!

I understand your frustration!

I would not go as far as saying that they are the laziest people on the planet. The new guy at the Visa Department has just started at this post a couple of weeks ago. He doesn’t have a secretary to help manage the flow of applications. I went to the Embassy to get a document notarized – took me three trips and some nerves.

You must understand that people at the Embassy are just little wheels in the big machine. They are afraid to make a step in the different direction from what is prescribed by the official Tashkent.

My advice is to get your documents, telex number, whatever you have, and go to the Embassy (visa department office hours are on the web). If things don’t move, PM me, perhaps I will be able to help.

Cheers,
CD

[Uzbekxonim]

Why are the people that work in the Uzbekistan Embassy in London the laziest people on this planet? I have tried for 4 days to contact the embassy about a visa application and nobody answers the phone most of the time. When they do they just say call back later or tomorrow! Is anyone else having this problem?

I sometimes wonder whether the Uzbekistan government just wants to create an isolationist society and not have any visitors to travel to Uzbekistan.

It took my friend in Tashkent 3 months to get an invitation approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All they did was drag it out for as long as possible and ask for more and more money each time she visited the Ministry in Tashkent. How corrupt is that?

Having waited 3 months already to get an invitation approved, i'm now having to wait even longer just get a visa because the embassy staff can't be bothered to answer their phones.

Hey man, do you know how much time and nerves Uzbek citizens spend to get British or US visa? :x

so please don't express your negative emotions so openly here. anyhow, this is the embassy of the country from which the majority of forum members are.

ps. why don't u bother yourself and go to the embassy during hours of working with clients?

[melo]

Hey man, do you know how much time and nerves Uzbek citizens spend to get British or US visa? :x

so please don't express your negative emotions so openly here. anyhow, this is the embassy of the country from which the majority of forum members are.

ps. why don't u bother yourself and go to the embassy during hours of working with clients?

Are you saying that Uzbek embassies around the world operate wonderfully? :rolleyes: Don't take this personally- I think it is a fact that the Uzbek embassies are screwing their own citizens too. I really wish people weren't so nationalistic. A complaint with an uzbek embassy or uzbek government is not an attack on all uzbeks. :rolleyes:

[Uzbekxonim]

Are you saying that Uzbek embassies around the world operate wonderfully? :rolleyes: Don't take this personally- I think it is a fact that the Uzbek embassies are screwing their own citizens too. I really wish people weren't so nationalistic. A complaint with an uzbek embassy or uzbek government is not an attack on all uzbeks. :rolleyes:

1. read my post carefully pls, there's nothing saying that Uzbek embassies work perfectly.
2. i don't consider the thread author's post as an attack on all uzbeks, i just didn't like the way he expressed his feelings, he could do it in a more polite way.
3. it's not about being nationalistic, Andy.

[nemets]

Why are the people that work in the Uzbekistan Embassy in London the laziest people on this planet? .
If you ever get somebody on the phone in the Uzbek Kosulat in Frankfurt - you are the luckiest person on the planet. :lol: