Originally posted by andypaul@Jul 30 2005, 09:54 PM

I was surprised that My Wife was told during the call to CAVA, that the Embassy would pick up certain Paperwork before the date of the Interview. Is this a new procedure? It seems it changes every few months.
Its changed again? I know up until August last year, CAVA acted as a courier service for the whole visa process, meaning you sent the application and all supporting documents and passports, etc and then the Embassy checks, verifies, and if they are happy, return the passport with a visa via CAVA. This all changed after the chaos with the problems in Romaina and Bulgaria.

I'm thinking maybe they've partially gone back to using CAVA, but this time to process applications, and to let the Embassy deny or grant visas.

I dunno why they need to keep changing the system all the time, it only leads to confusion, especially when the Manila Embassy website seems to give contradictory information.