Heads up!! - Fiancee visa.

Thanks for the heads up. This doesn't sound good, am about to submit my application for fiancee  visa this coming Feb 18. Waiting for 9 months or so is really frustrating. 

hi anne

i heard the Royal Norwegian Embassy in the Philippines already decides for family immigration permits, which includes fiancée visa.. so u can get an answer within a month if u get approved or ur case is forwarded to UDI.. so if you are applying from the Philippines, dont lose hope and btw, the papers will have to be submitted now to VFS Global, and not the embassy (which requires an additional 1.5k fee bummer).. but yea, i understand that 9 months of waiting can be really exhausting and frustrating.. and not being able to apply for a visit visa while waiting for results just makes it worse

anyways, good luck on ur application

hi haugan

thanks for the info this is really a good share.. i hope u and ur wife get good news soon

all the best.!

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Hi Pheebz

Thank you for the info, somehow this confuses me as when I booked my appointment  the place stated is Royal Norewegian Embassy, Manila not VFS Global though I already read from the embassy website about this important update. And we booked a hotel which is closer to the embassy ahhggrrrr! 

awww yea, on the application portal u have to put Royal Norwegian Embassy since they are the ones who are gonna decide for ur application.. i think VFS will just accept ur documents and still forward it to the embassy.. maybe since they started to process family immigration applications, they offload some tasks so they can focus on checking new applications.. i really hope this change would mean faster processing to new and old applications as well..

i havent been to the new visa place i thought its just around makati as well?

I emailed the VFS global and they said I need to lodge my application there. Instead of a walking distance to embassy, now I need to take taxi to VFS. Since I have very tiny knowledge about Makati this sounds a disaster to me.    Seriously, its so easy for me to get lost in the city than in the wild even with the help of gps. 

hahaha ikr?! iv been to the embassy a few times, and i used to work in Makati.. but everytime i have to come back, i still use a cab and google maps every frickin' time... hahaha Makati is a jungle in the city, lol.!

btw, after ur application, maybe u can share ur experiences with this new process on a new thread? so others can have an idea on how the new process is thanks and wish u all the best