Guess Who Am I

All begun one week ago when Russian embassy rejected my visa application because they detected that my passport is broken. It caused that I needed to apply for the new passport and then get my Chinese visa to be transferred to the new passport. And everything inside two weeks.

I applied for express passport, which is delivered in one day but must be picked up either in Helsinki or Helsinki-Vantaa airport - I chose to pick it up at the airport and then stay overnight in the new Hilton located at the airport. Next morning I drove to the embassy hoping that I could get my visa transferred quickly but I already knew that they will not transfer visas but I have to apply a new one. So after discussing my options at the embassy, I chose to use the express option and surprisingly I got my new visa within 30 minutes - that is very impressive!

Of course after all of this, there wasn’t any long enough time for applying for Russian visa so I needed to skip my trip, which I was supposed to take next week. But at least I am ready to go to China next week and that was just the most important at this time.

It is quite amazing how fast one can get a visa - I sent my application and passport to the embassy on 3rd of October and I received it back on 10th of October. Embassy received that on the 4th of October and sent it back to me on 9th of October. That means the processing time was amazing three and half working days. Most probably something less because I doubt they spent that time processing my application.

Very impressive. Well, now I just will be waiting until November for my next trip to Shanghai. Everything else has been taken care already; I have my tickets and my visa.