Despite being quoted a turnaround of 10-15 business days a parcel arrived for me the next Monday. By this time we had achieved what we wanted to for the porting of the software and so could leave at anytime. Unfortunately, when I opened the package the box marked Issued had been circled and then scribbled out and the box marked Refused had been selected. It was because I hadn t included the 213DM issuance fee . The trouble was the instructions I received had not specified any such fee.
Consular staff are almost godlike in their powers.
There is no right of appeal. Despite including contact information in the package that they could have used to get me to organize another transfer, I wasn t informed there was a problem until I received the rejection. I spent the rest of Monday creating another application package and transferring another 99DM fee as well as the 213DM issuance fee. I dropped the new package off around lunchtime on the Monday. My Thursday flight was looking doubtful.