UK “Priority Visa Service”

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:15:19 +0000

Wow so the UK have cottoned on to the African way of doing things – you want me to work faster you pay the premium:

The UK Border Agency in South Africa has introduced a Priority Visa Service in South Africa effective November 14.

Customers will now be able to pay an additional fee to fast track their visa application and have it processed ahead of others. Only a limited number of Priority Visas will be sold each day on a first come, first served basis.

The Priority Visa Service will be available for UK visit visa categories only. To apply for a Priority Visa customers must complete and submit a UK visa application online as normal and visit one of the UK’s Visa Application Centres operated by VFS Global in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth or Pretoria where they will be able to obtain further details about the Priority Service.

The cost of the Priority Visa Service will be R675, in addition to the visa application fee itself. This fee can be only paid at the Visa Application Centre by Debit/Credit Card (Visa/MasterCard).

Good on them – much needed however one must ask is this not transparent corruption? Ok seriously mean this tongue in cheek or is it a way of curbing the corruption happening already or corruption that could happen? Leave it there mean nothing by the question just a thought provoking question.

Urgent!

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:54:47 +0000

Over the xmas period and generally throughout the year you have clients, certain clients that leave message, please call me back it is URGENT, or at the bottom of the email it says: URGENT. This is the same email that they have taken 3 days to respond to, or when you call them back the urgent flight they need is for 6 months time. The term URGENT could mean anything really and guess it is relative to the person/ company that you send it to. In Travel and certainly in my agency Urgent is generally for light leaving within an 1 for domestic or same day for international – or you know even within 24 hours or same week. Now for example if you send it to another field lets say Appliance repairs – a same day reply would be considered urgent, Government would be Urgent if you actually required a response. People and I know I do at times take it the wrong way, it can happen especial when a client takes 3 days to respond for an email and now it is urgent, who knows maybe they had problems and now it is urgent, I understand that however the same would come into play, ie flight is only for 3 months time. So please for certain extremely efficient people saying URGENT could imply that they do not treat all enquirer as URGENT and could get you off on the wrong footing with your client / agent right on the word go.

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UK “Priority Visa Service”

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