Tickets
We booked the tickets online on the 15.7.2011. It was a bit weird because we talked about its for weeks and just never made a final decision. That day everything was so fast. We were sitting on the couch and...just booked it. It was done in 5 minutes. There they were: tickets for 2 return flight with Qatar Airlines departing on the 1.9.2011.
Passport
Now all the stress started.At the 14.6.2011 I just got back from a trip to my family in Germany and I thought I won`t see them anymore before December, but then I tried to fill out the visa application. There was something wrong...something very important....I had to fill in the expiry date of my passport which has to be at least 6 month ahead of journey date. Unfortunately, my passport would expire in January 2012. This was not good. I immediately started to research how to get a new German passport in the UK. I tried to make an appointment with the German embassy in England, but they would not give me an appointment before the end of August...at least this is where I stopped looking for an available appointment. I thought this is it....we won`t go anymore...my fault: I should have checked my passport before I booked the tickets. Then I got the idea to call my home town and ask them what to do. The only opportunity I had was to go home to Germany again and apply for a new passport. So did I. I went back at the 12.7.-20.7.. My family was happy to see me one more time again and I was happy as well. I applied for the new passport and through the payment of an additional fee I received my new passport after 3 days.
Visa
The plan was, to meet Surya in London on the day when I fly back from Germany to England. In London we would meet and go together go to the Indian embassy. 3 days before I was supposed to fly back we found out that Non UK people have to fill out another form and have to proof that they have an official adress in the UK. Unfortunately, I don`t have an official adress in the UK right now. I`m living together in my boyfriends flat over the summer. So the problem was that it would not make sense to apply for a visa in the UK. So I decided to apply at the Indian embassy in Berlin.I had exactly one day to sort everything out. Good that I went to the photographer the week before to get the pictures already that the embassy requires for a visa application. I found it quite confusing to fill out the application form and I was very nervous that I would do something wrong.I was very happy when I found a the number of a visa application helpline. I talked to a very nice lady. I actually had to call her four times to make sure everything is correct...as I said: I had only one day. Whatever I would have done wrong, I would have had to fix it from England to Germany and in the worst case I would even have had to go to Germany a third time. On the day when I flew home from Berlin to London/Bournemouth my parents dropped my application at the visa application centre.My parents gave them an envelope to send it by post which they promised to do within 3 days. Already 2 days later the visa arrived at my parents house. I`m waiting for them to send it to me as soon as possible.
If you want to apply for an Indian visa as well,but you find my description not instructive, check out my page: Tips and Help for your trip. There I wrote a fool-proof description about the whole visa application process.
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