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Thanks DRad for that quite useful post. We're currently a bit stuck in Brazzaville without an Angolan visa, I'll now start finding out if going after a fully-fledged tourist visa is not the way to go, rather than a transit one that they only want to give out in Matadi (DRC).
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Thanks DRad for that quite useful post. We're currently a bit stuck in Brazzaville without an Angolan visa, I'll now start finding out if going after a fully-fledged tourist visa is not the way to go, rather than a transit one that they only want to give out in Matadi (DRC).
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On that Matadi note- do you know if you can quickly get a transit visa there for Cabinda? Do you need all the supporting stuff (letter of invite, etc) or is it fairly painless? I've decided that I want to go through there if I can and skip the whole Brazzaville/Kinshasa mess if possible.
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Hi,
After i tryed 6 weeks to get a transitvisum at the embassy in germany i told them to send my passport back and went to capetown. Here i used the Angola Gateway agency who prommised me the visa within 5-7 workingdays to do the paperwork for me.
Now, two weeks later i still do not have my visa and im worried my congovisa might espire. The onely thing i got is a bill about R1150 again.
After phoning the embassy directl a very rude lady shouted to me. "You people have just have to wayt..." It will be the last time i want to visit angola. Im going up east next time again...
cu, Tobi
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Yeah, the Angola visa is a huge pain in the rear to get, but so far I've got to say that it was worth it- I'm loving the country and the people are great- zero hassle, one guy insisted on buying my gas (30 liters!), ad the cops have actually been very friendly!
If you are in Cape Town and go and do the visa yourself at the embassy downtown. They have a form they give you with everything they want (as listed in my first post) and they aren't too bad to deal with in person. The Embassy is in a square behind the Engen building with easy bike parking and around here:
S33 55.205 E18 25.448
Good Luck!!
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Any other suggestions for people to help with the invitation letters?
Nancy (above) hasn't replied to emails or text.
Cheers, dj
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yes I also still don't have an answer from her either!!
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This comes terribly late after the fact (a bit over 2 months), but I wanted to report that (after entering the DRC at Mindouli and crossing the Congo at Luozi), we obtained 7-day transit visas from the Angolan consulate in Matadi. The process was totally random: told to get lost on the first day on account of my wife's passport being "full", we showed up again the next day to hear a very different tune: a suitable space was found in her passport, and mine was processed as well. We got them back the following day with 7-day transit visas. A Czech couple, waiting to submit their applications on the day we came to retrieve our passports, was summarily turned away, told to try in Kinshasa (and subsequently took a different route through DRC to Zambia).
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