Pakistan Visa - urgent help needed!

[Bensouthall]

Hubbers,

I'm on the road with my girl and we've got to Kathmandu having left Singapore in February enroute to London.

We're trying to get our Pakistan visas from here at the Pakistan embassy but have been told that we have to apply from our country of origin. I am from the UK and haven't been there for five years, and my wife is from Australia where we left four months ago.

The Pakistan visa only last for three months from the date of issue. We were going to apply in Bangkok when we came through but since that was still over three months from when we intend travelling to Pakistan decided to take the advice of the Pakistan Embassy in BKK and apply closer to the time.

With only the capital cities of Kathmandu and Delhi between here and our intended border crossing at Lahore in July we're a little stumped on how on earth we're going to get them.

Does anyone have any recent experience of being issued a Pakistan visa from either of these places, how did you go about it etc?!?

If we can't get one issued we face a rather disastrous acceptance that we have to:

a) Fly to BKK and try there as friends have succeeded recently, or
b) ship the Land Rover from India to Iran (is that even possible!?)

Any advice would be simply wonderful!!

Best wishes

Ben & Sophee

[benmac]

Some people on here have posted the application to the embassy with a return address of a friend or family member in the UK and then forwarded onto where you presently are. Perhaps someone on here can confirm that that is the case.
Good luck!

[benmac]

I meant the embassy in the UK by the way. As far as I am aware you can only apply for Pakistan visa in the country where your passport is from

[Bensouthall]

Thanks benmac - I'm just researching that idea now!

[dan.sequeira]

Hi Ben,
If all else fails, it's possible to ship your vehicle from Mumbai to Iran or Dubai. If you pass Mumbai, do give me a shout!

[Mehmet Zeki Avar]

"Any advice would be simply wonderful!!""

All I will tell depends on the experiences of travellers I met in İstanbul this year..

As far as I know there is no Pakistan embassy in UK. and you will be very very lucky if you can get it outside home country. I heard and met some UK.travellers got their visas in Ireland..(just a local represantative in UK.)

Currently together with an AUS. enfield rider here and he has also flied to AUS. from India for the visa for Pakistan.

On the other hand,UK.passport holders need to hire a guide and escort for İran. I guess you are aware of that.

So seems better seafreight from india to a european port if you have time
(cheaper way but takes almost 45 days) or airfreight to a european city from india if you can but it may cost a fortune..

Before the eartquake,airfreigt was easier in katmandu by Suraj Dhakal but dont know the current situaion there.

Hope helps.
All the best...

[krammit]

hey mate, I'm from australia. i just in the last month sent my passport home to sydney (which is illegal in India to do so) and got a family member to get my visa. It was tricky with DHL as you are not allowed to send passports but i pulled it off. On the return trip i got some parts sent to me wit the passport hidden in them. It was hard in India for 3 weeks with no passport but manageable.

[Bensouthall]

Thanks Krammit and Mehmet,

Sounds like I have some serious work to do either at the embassy in Delhi or in Bangkok where I know they issue them outside of your own country.

I had considered the DHL option but I also understand the issue with posting passports.

Since I have a Land Rover not a bike air freight is out of the question!

Appreciate your replies

Ben

[chris]

There's a Pakistan embassy (High Commission) in London and in other parts of the UK too. https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourc...bassy%20london

Whether they're issuing visas to UK citizens, I don't know. Never has the need to look into this as the Iran visa/guide situation along with the AA's silliness regarding CdPs excludes me from the traditional overland route from the UK to India.

[Dave Nunns]

The Pakistan High Commission is issuing visas in the UK. I got one a month ago. There are a number of visa centres / offices throughout the country. Took about 2 months. I needed a letter of Introduction, and the travel agency who wrote one for me also had to intervene with some emails to the visa company and High Commission, but it worked.
Dave


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