Closures to make short week starting on January 21 18 January 13
Posted by Jonathan V. Phillips in Embassy Consulate Closure, Passport.Tags: Afghanistan, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Jordan, Mali, Russia, Vietnam
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There is a short week for visa and passport processing coming up. Starting on Monday the 21st, the combined Martin Luther King Jr. Federal holiday and the Presidential Inauguration will see closures at most Embassies and consulates. Monday will also close Federal Offices such as all Passport Offices and the Department of State Office of Authentications. Additionally, do to the scale of the Inaugural event and it’s impact on the City, G3’s Washington (Arlington, VA) office will be close operations at noon on the 21st. The other G3 offices in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco are not effected and will be open during normal business hours Monday.
Thursday the 24th of January sees an important holiday in the Islamic Calendar. Mawlid al-Nabi or Ma’uled Al-Nabi, which is a celebration of the Prophet Mohamed’s birthday, takes place. The holiday will cause closures at embassies and consulates from Islamic countries around the country who our commemorating the day. Although not a complete list as consular offices don’t always announce their intention to close,
The Embassies and consulates representing Afghanistan, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Jordan and Mali have all announced closures on the 24th. Be advised that this list is not definitive as consular offices don’t always announce their intention to close. Other Islamic consular offices can be expected to be closed. We will up date the known closure list for the holiday as soon as we know.
As is always the case for holiday closures, the closure means no new visa or passport applications can be submitted or completed jobs picked up. A holiday does not count towards the total processing time associated with completing a request. Because of the two holidays travelers are advised to take into account any extra time their requests my require when determining to how quickly to process a passport or visa.
Embassy Closure List week of 22 October 2012 22 October 12
Posted by Jonathan V. Phillips in Embassy Consulate Closure.Tags: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Eid al-Adha, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkmenistan, visa, Zambia
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Embassy closures has the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha causing closures at the end of the week. Applicants can expect to have visa processing delays due to embassy closures at consulates and embassies representing Muslim countries. This week’s other notable closures include Kazakhstan’s national day, independence days for Zambia and Turkmenistan and Thailand closing for Chulalongkorn. India has a closure for Dusshera but the processing center is open for new submissions, applications in process and will take an extra day to process visas as the Indian embassy and all their consulates are closed.
23 October, Tuesday
Thailand closed for Chulalongkorn Memorial Day/King Rama V Day
24 October, Wednesday
India closed for Dusshera; Travisa open for submissions
Zambia closed for Independence Day
October 25, Thursday Eid al-Adha begins this evening; closures will include:
Bangladesh
Saudi Arabia (embassy and all consulates)
Kazakhstan closed for Republic Day
October 26, Friday Eid al-Adha – closures will include:
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Ethiopia
Ghana
Indonesia
Malaysia
Saudi Arabia (embassy and all consulates)
Benin closed for Armed Forces Day
Cambodia closed for Coronation Day
Turkmenistan closed for Independence Day
Uganda
Remember when consular office are closed there are no visa processed
or new applications accepted on that day. When an embassy or
consulate is closed, that day does count as a processing day and
applications currently in for process will have the visa processing
extended to include the non processing closure day. Please account
for extra time if you are applying for a visa to a country whose office closed because of holiday.
If you have any questions on how long your visa request will take
for a particular country please feel free to contact our
professional staff for more information.
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