They helped me at the end. To our bad luck, Microsoft error also came the same day.
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SHAME ON EMBASSY OF AUSTRIA. SCHENGEN VISAS got swapped mistakenly while printing on passport. Husband Visa printed in Wife Passport and Vice versa.
It's a necessary evil that day. Air India cashed in on me.
Luckily you have seen the mistake earlier. In our story, we couldn't spot it as it was overlooked by my maternal uncle and they only figured it just 2 days before travel.Something similar happened to me recently as well. I applied for a two-month visa and I was erroneously issued a visa with just 1 month validity by the Swiss embassy. Luckily for me, I applied for the visa 3.5 weeks before my trip and I received it in 7 days(as it was approved the same day it was received by the embassy but delayed by Bluedart). I noticed the error immediately and submitted the passport to the nearest VFS center. I then received the new visa as per my requirements in just 3 days. I was a bit surprised as to how this even happened in the first place, but it all worked out for me in the end.
It's the mistake of the Embassy I think so. We may have to face legal consequences for their mistake in future.
Yes. Those 2 days were a rollercoaster ride me. No proper food, unexpected financial losses and waste of time.
If there was even a smallest of the small mistake from our end while applying for visa or in between, they would not even think about our money and they would straight away reject the Visa instead.
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The visas were unfortunately delivered to our maternal uncle home rather than the actual travelers home.
Yes, they made their flight on time to Europe, luckily.
They didn't budge. I am at my urgency and didn't think to pay 500 fine. Already flight prices to HYD were skyrocketing and I didn't have time to think all of that for 500 rupees.
ontherocks
TF Premier
I think a big shoutout should be given to the person who agreed to carry some strangers passports handed to him by another stranger at airport. Carrying a bottle of pickle is ok, but passports?
Yeah..He's ready to take given that I explained him the whole situation, showed him the itineraries of both my uncle and aunt, hotel bookings and all.
KIND PEOPLE ARE THERE IN THIS WORLD. That's what that situation made me understand.
Although it is that I handed over the passports to him after all the security checks at the boarding gate. So, he carried less to no risk by helping us.
Since he's in the airline industry for the past 25 years, he understood the situation well and helped us.
SHAME SHAME Austria embassy
Carrying a bottle from stranger is more dangerous than carrying passport.
Yeah...that is true
ontherocks
TF Premier
OP after winning the marathon and relaxing at the spa
That's actually TRUE. The spa made me forget about what I have gone through. I used Emerald, Sapphiro(All 3 variants) for 3 times.
I could've stayed there for much time, but they denied using the same card same day. Somehow, I managed to stay at the spa for 2 hours( 4*30mins per swipe) and had a relaxing therapy.
that's great. encalm spa T3 domestic?
was there any waiting time?
and is the spa open 24*7?
Yes the spa is open 24*7. It's near Gate 24 afaik.
There was no one on that day from around 12AM to 2AM.
No waiting for me on that day.
There is little risk in carrying a passport domestically. A bottle is more dangerous.
It's quite possible that the airline might not have caught the visa mistake either and even the immigration officer in Austria could have missed it unless flagged by the system. After all both people actually had a valid visa and their sirnames were the same. Unless the airline staff is very diligent and reads the name on the visa and compares it, they are unlikely to spot it. Since they are in a hurry and checking a lot of people, they might just glance at the visa and valid dates and issue a boarding pass.
A long time ago, when I used to have an Indian passport, I was driving from France to Italy with a girlfriend. The immigration officer stopped us and asked for passports. She didn't need a visa but I did and had obtained it. Only there we realised that the embassy had put a wrong entry date which was about 15 days later. The immigration officer at the border pointed this out. We explained that we were already there and had driven feom Paris and had all our itinerary planned. He was nice and told us to carry on! Mostly because I had a European girlfriend and they were less strict after the EU started. The girlfriend part helped me get a lot of last minute immediate visas as they had special rules for spouses and partners of European citizens and they were nice enough to declare me her partner in order to help me out.
CARDBITRAGE
TF Legend
Yes, but not worth the risk. Sometimes the police tend to check our passports even when crossing borders and you don't want them finding a visa with a different name on there. I'm sure they would let you go after some verification with the embassy but still, it would be too much of a hassle to deal with them.