Olá, boa tarde a todos!
It has been sometime I could not write here but I have many stories in my pocket to write here. But before those, I want to finish my complain series 🙂 I am still angry and upset! So, it will release me and be much better to get those off my chest. Here is the First Complain Part – 1 to make acquint you with the issue.
The First Complaint (Part-1)
Well, let´s start the second and the last one, I hope.
As I used another friend´s email account and filled out the form with all his information and sent email to the consular section and they response in 1.5 day with an appointment date, I was so pissed off that somebody or somebodies at the consular section doing this on purpose. After I collected countless of official papers (XXX pages, I will count later for another post), I bought ticket for traveling to Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, where the embassy based in like many other countries´ embassies. I arrived in to the city around 6 a.m. and decided to walk to the embassy about 7 or more kilometers to enjoy the clean air and get purified from my reasonable anger against those people who stole my time and gave me a real headache, not only me also to my family, and of course to Justyna. She was there and tried all the time with me to help out. Mais uma vez, muito obrigado Justyna!
When I arrived to the Embassy, there was a security guard, I do not want to be rude but he was probably one of the most dummiest security guard in the world, did not listen or understand what I was telling him. He was asking new questions those I already gave the responses and staring at my face with confused, dull and blank face impression. At the end, fortunately, I took a badge to enter the room and started to wait someone´s arrivals. Two Turkish ladies entered to the room and went to their rooms without greeting three people in that small room. When a female security guard entered into the room, she greeted us nicely and gave us instructions before we handed the pile of papers in. The funny thing is that, she gave us an application form different than they send us via e-mail to fulfill before we reach there. It was even different than one that does exist on the official ministry webpage.
When my turn came, I entered the room and wait there sometime and then sit front of the female clerk who did not even say good morning. She did not say a word but I greeted her. She just had an effort to tell me to hand over the documents to her. I gave her the pile, she started to leaf through and she stopped when she reach my letter of intent just after the application form. She took a glance at it and smiled condescendingly, stood up, took that letter, turn back and walked out the room teasingly, and disappeared without telling nothing for around 5 minutes. When she came back and sat, I asked if there is something wrong with my letter. She said just no, but I continued to explain that “the letter is neither obligatory nor asked, however, I always attached one when I apply for a visa. When she took only that paper and went inside, I thought something is wrong.” She replied then that she just went to ask her colleague which visa type she should consider. Come on! Definitely that was a lie! You are a clerk there and you should have known already without asking someone else. Beyond this, you do not have to know what type of visa I am applying for, even that information was written on the application form 🙂 So my dear arrogant clerk lady, no necessary to lie about. You are an official there and representing a whole country!
Later, she completed to check my papers and led me to photograph booth to take picture, even if they asked a biometric photo to stamp on the visa. She made me wait sometime before taking the photo. From the booth, you could see her since it was covered only glass. I have seen the first photo which was okey, but she made me to stood there more and asked me to look at the camera for sometime without shooting. I have seen another photo on the screen with closed eyes and stupid face of me. You know how those cameras show you on the IDs, driver licences and other official documents. Even if the first one was okey, the second was disaster. I warn her that in the picture my eyes were not open. She said she took several and the best will be on the visa sticker. But I was sure that she only took two photos. You know what, that picture that shows my stupid face with closed eyes on my visa sticker now hahah
After photo shoot, I sat back my chair and sign the papers she gave. At the end, I ask her permission to ask one question, she confirmed and I went asking. I asked first if the reservation I made on the e-visa platform of the ministry is valid or not. She said no! After that, I continued that I kept sending mails since July and I only got one response at the end of August that stated the reservations were fully booked until the end of September. Even if I accepted and asked a reservation date, I never got any answers, so that I got my short term stay visa from the Hungarian Embassy. I sent emails for asking a reservation date and I did not get any response, why? She went on by saying that my mails could be gone to the spam box. I jumped in by saying that I sent emails from 3 different email accounts of different service providers and I used different IP addresses and many different devices. I proceeded by telling that I asked my friends to send emails via their accounts on behalf of me without adding my name. The embassy responded with a kind of application form but when we write my name and other credentials, they never replied back. That happened not only once but several times. Can I ask why? She just said there is nothing personal. “Look, you are here and are submitting your application. That means that nothing personal and somebody gave you a reservation date, right?”
Hahahah, no, nobody gave me any reservation date, my dear!
Whole conversation and the things I told above made me sure that those two Turkish ´raparigas´ did this on purpose. The other stupid thing happened there related with her that she only spoke English. I have not experienced until this time that consular clerk spoke a foreign language other than the language of the country it is based. The first language is the language of the country it is based, second could be the language of the embassy of the country or English. But she started speak English. That was another odd and stupid situation. After I took the invoice of the visa application, I check the name of the ´rapariga´ and saw that she is purely Turkish. I never thought that all I experienced because of somebody from another country other than Turkey. Thank you my dear Turkish compatriot for not surprising me!
After I left the building, I went to a park near the embassy and sat with a release by feeling that a heavy weight off my shoulders. I sat, I sent Justyna a voice message with a picture of the park. I started eat my sandwich and drink my tea I carried in my thermos/vacuum flask, and continued to swear those who caused this situations. Not only those Turkish ´raparigas´ but also to government officials who have impaired the value of the passport.
It is time to finish here since it shows that it has been three pages that I have written.
I just wanted to save my bad experience here as I use here a diary. Whoever reads or does not read, thank you! 🙂
Até proxima!
(Written on 27 May 2023, Published on 25 July 2023 / 2023-07-26 / 12:01:36 )
