Originally posted by Pauldo@Sep 7 2005, 07:54 AM
My wife called the Manila embassy yesterday, from the UK. She was told you have to phone them to make an appointment, then they give you a date to roll up personally and hand in your application. (13 weeks wait currently)

They will eyeball the paperwork there and then, and decide if you will be one of the lucky ones to be granted a visa that day. It may take two weeks to issue the visa. (course, 'two weeks' in the Philippines means 'less than a year&#39

If they want an official 'sit down' interview it can take many more weeks to wait for that.

'course, that was yesterday Today may be totally different :(
Wow they changed it again? Elsa must have been the lucky one - she called CAVA in late December (she also had to pay ££££££££££££££'s to call premium rate numbers - I think about £6 in all) and got interview 3rd February, visa issued 28th February, so we had a fairly short wait, even with the local checks.

So my assumption is that its now standard to issue the visa 2 weeks after it is granted? This was the case with Elsa, so maybe now they are doing local checks on ALL granted visas before issuing them.