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Embassy & Visa News

Visa Swift Express Po Box
Visa Swift have a special PO Box for urgent applications that need to be lodged on the day they are recieved. Please see the ’Contact Us’ section for full details.

Chinese District Restrictions
The Chinese Consulate General in Manchester have instructed that applicants who live or work in the following consular districts should apply through Manchester.They are Derbyshire, Durham , Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Tyne and Wear Applicants who live or work in the consular districts of Scotland and Northern Ireland should apply for visas through the Chinese Consulate General in Edinburgh

Russia
The Russian embassy will only accept their online application forms.Please click ’Russia’ in our embassy websites section for details.The Visa Swift cut off time for applications that need next day lodging is 4pm.The cut off for Telex applications is 10.00am at the processing center.

China
The normal service takes four days. The fastest service available is an express three day service and all applications need to be lodged before 11am. Please note that the embassy will no longer consider the withdrawal of an application once it has been lodged.

India
The size for photographs when applying for a visa to india is 50mm x 50mm.INDIA PHOTOGRAPH SERVICE: Visa Swift can adjust your normal pasport size photographs to the correct size for an Idian visa application for a charge of £25.00.Please phone for details. We lodge at India five days a week. We operate a cut off time of 4.30pm for all Indian visa applications to be lodged the following day. A next day service is available for business trips only.

Travel Warnings

The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office has issued travel warnings for the following countries:

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Burundi

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Colombia

Comoros

Congo

Congo, Democratic Republic

Cote D’Ivoire

Djibouti

Ecuador

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Georgia

Guatamala

Guinea

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Kenya

Lebanon

Liberia

Libya

Mali

Niger

Nigeria

Pakistan

Philippines

Russia

Rwanda

Somalia

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Thailand

Uganda

Uzbekistan

Yemen

Zimbabwe

Please check with VisaSwift or the relevant embassy for more information.