Continuing the story of how we we issue a Schengen visa at the Italian consulate in Podgorica, Montenegro (read the beginning Here). After the hardships of collecting documents, we again arrived at the Italian consulate last Thursday, November 1, 2012 - having experienced another disappointment 🙁 Once again, the site does not say a word that the consulate does not accept - November 1 in Italy is a public holiday - the Day of the Dead - and the consulate is closed. For us, a trip to Podgorica means a lost day 🙁 Out of grief, we once again went to Delta City and shopped a little 🙂 We humbly began to wait for next Tuesday, when once again we can try our luck at this - rrrrrr - consulate!
Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Consulate of Italy, George Washington Boulevard 26, Podgorica. Previously, they took a new bank statement on the state of the account, otherwise the previous one was already outdated.
10:30. At the consulate there is a queue of our compatriots (Montenegrins do not need a visa) - there are a lot of people there, they are not allowed inside yet ... Slowly they let everyone in, we are the last. The building is left by two angry ladies - Russians - one has an Italian passport, the second is her sister, she is denied a visa for ridiculous reasons: "they say they have a flight through Vienna, contact the Austrian embassy." I don’t know if everything is as they say, but after making a lot of noise, starting a video filming at the consulate due to a violation of their rights, they got a meeting with the vice-consul, and he promised that the visa would be ready on Thursday 🙂
11:30 While they were noisy, the line moved slowly, we were allowed inside at half past eleven - half an hour before closing. In front of our eyes, almost everyone is denied acceptance of documents for all sorts of not very significant reasons, however, much is clarified at the information stand - it is not clear why this information should not be posted on the site.
12:00 Officially the end of the reception on visa issues. The queue is not broken up.
12:30 It's our turn, we're the last ones. Unpleasant, as it seems to us, the uncle declares that our questionnaire is not filled out as it should be - we printed it out on two different sheets, but we need it in the form of an A3 book! Questionnaire forms are available on the first floor - why did he keep silent about this earlier! Well, there is not a word about it on the site! Well, that’s all – they’ll wrap it up, it’s already time for lunch, the guard walks nervously and tries to explain to us in broken English that it was necessary to immediately fill it normally, and they don’t care that we are coming from Kotor for the third time, that we have work to do, etc. .d. and so on. Suddenly, at first glance, an unpleasant uncle-officer gives us empty "correct" forms and allows us to fill them out! In general, all the documents were in order, we filled out new questionnaires, paid 35 euros each - we come for passports next Tuesday, exactly in a week!
13:00 Rejoicing and rejoicing, we leave the consulate!
Since we already have an Italian visa obtained in Russia this year, we are applying for a six-month multi-visa, we'll see which one they get ...
Summarizing, list of documents submitted for obtaining an Italian visa:
1. Passports and notarized translations + copies
2. Marriage certificate, copy, notarized translation + copy
3. Booking a hotel with booking
4. Booking a ferry ticket to Bari
5. Rental agreement in Montenegro + copy
6. Insurance
7. Potvrda o mjestu boravka
8. Photos
9. Work book + copy, hello booklet + copy + M1
10. An extract from the bank on the state of the account (fixed, but it is desirable to show the movements for the last 3 months - they could get to the bottom).
11. Documents for the company
12. Certificate from the Russian consulate about the presence of boravka
13. Work permit
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We took a photo of the list of documents and visa requirements at the stand at the Italian Embassy:
