Hi all,
This morning I went to the Chinese embassy here in Dushanbe to apply for a tourist visa but I was asked for a LOI, something that EU citizens don´t need, I have a Spanish passport. I have tried to explain this to them but 'new regulation' and 'requested to everybody' was the only answer they would give me.
Do you know any agency in Dushanbe that can take care of a LOI? Or any Chinese agency that could do that online?
To complicate things more, the Embassy only opens for visa issues on Wednesdays and Fridays, not sure about Mondays, and next week apparently they will be closed for a one week Chinese Holiday.
They suggested that 'maybe' with a letter from my Embassy they could issue it, but there is no Spanish Embassy in Tajikistan so I had a really annoying experience on the phone with the Secretary of the French Embassy and later an unsuccessful try at the German Embassy.
If you can answer my question or give some advice, that will be great. Anyway, be warned: what they say about the Chinese Embassy in Tajikistan being a pain in the neck is very true...
Thanks,
José
PS: I had booked a flight leaving from Dushanbe to Kunming on October, 13th but it didn't soften them a bit.
