Day trip to Frankfurt for Kazak visas

Well, after a several hundred dollar day trip to the Consulate of Kazakhstan in Frankfurt Germany for our visas we have no feeling of satisfaction, no visas and now no passports.

From everything we read online, getting a Kazakh visa in Germany requires a personal visit to a consulate. So, on August 13 we left Sharnhauser Park at 5:19a to get to the consulate in Frankfurt before they opened at 9a. About 20 other people had the same idea, and we all gathered to wait for the gate to open.

Once entering, we stood in one of the lines and upon arriving at service window A we were directed to the back of the line at window B. We waited in line again and upon arrival at window B the person could not understand English (we don't know German or Russian) so we ended up being helped by the person from window A because they knew English and weren't helping anyone. Once we turned in our paperwork they said "Thank you, come back in 7 days." It took some time to help them understand that we could not return on the 20th of August to pick up our visas since we were leaving the country for Holland on the 18th of August. In the end, we had to go to the post office to get a postage paid envelope to leave at the consulate so they can send us our documents in Holland.

Please pray with us that our visa applications will be accepted and that our documents will find us safely and quickly in the mail!

Despite our disappointment about the wait for getting our visas, we still saw some neat old buildings and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and had a pretty good day.