Whether applying for sponsor licences in London or work permits for the Middle East, every type of visa application process is fraught with complications. After all, if it was as easy as ticking a few boxes and just waiting for your card in the post, there’d really be no point in visas existing in the first place! Like it or not, visas exist for the sole purpose of making sure that only a very select bunch of people get into the country in question for the reasons they wish to enter. From work to extended vacations to setting up a brand new life and so on and so forth, border controls tend to be very specific when it comes to who can and cannot come in. And just to make things all the more complicated, every single country the world over has …show more content…
So if you’re planning to pen your own application for entry to literally any country in the world in the near future, do yourself a favour by making sure you don’t fall foul of the following five pitfalls: 1 – Filling Out the Wrong …show more content…
It really doesn’t matter if all you forgot to do was tick a simple box or add the date of the application to the required box at the end – they will not fill it in for you and nor will they accept it. And just for the record, the same also applies to forms that have been filled out incorrectly. Thought it didn’t matter that your first name and surname were written in the wrong boxes? Wrong…that’s often your application’s death in a heartbeat. 4 – Applying For an Inappropriate Visa It can be extremely difficult to know exactly which visa it is you need, or more importantly which ones you can qualify for. There are usually dozens, even hundreds of different visas and permits available when it comes to getting into countries – you cannot be expected to know and understand them all. As such, one of the most common mistakes of all is that of applying for wholly the wrong visa or a visa you never had a chance of qualifying for. And it’s worth remembering that with each rejection, your chances of being accepted the next time around take a serious knock. 5 – Going it