G3 Visas & Passports

We’ve used various G3 Visas offices to get visas for India, China, and now our Botswana and South Africa visas. First tip is to make sure you stay on top of G3 and know what’s going on with your visas. We submitted our Botswana application and the normal processing time is 3 weeks but after 5 weeks we hadn’t heard anything from G3 so we called them and had them follow up and we called the Botswana Consulate ourselves and learned that they hadn’t yet processed our Tourist Visa request. Yikes! If we hadn’t called they would have never started it and who knows if G3 Visas would have noticed. Once the Botswana Visa was processed, 2 – 3 weeks later, they sent the passport to G3’s Los Angeles office so it could be submitted to the South African Consulate for the S. Africa Tourist Visa. We were freaking out as it was getting close to the time of our departure and we still didn’t have the one passport with visas so we kept calling G3 in LA and they kept trying to get the passport from S. African Consulate. Michael at the LA office finally got our passport with only a day to spare and got it to us and we’re thankful for that. G3 Visas is a good company that can make a frustrating and stressful visa process a lot easier but remember to keep track of things yourself.