by alifeapart » Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:26 pm
Yes, indeed the British Embassy bring shame upon themselves and the country they are supposed to serve.
My own experience was to request a confirmation letter of some such nonsense that is oft required here. Despite my reciting the opening page of the Passport to the Embassy staff:
"Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State Requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary";
I was met with insolence and idiocy when suggesting that this request was aimed at all officials, regardless of Nationality and that, as British Embassy staff, they should be the most focussed on affording the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary. Alas no.
In the end, I had to draft said letter by way of my own lawyer, self certifying 'what the Embassy would have said' in their non-existent letter. The Head of Khmer Immigration admitted that he was shocked and amazed that such letters are indeed beneath staffers at the (redundant) Embassy.
The Embassy site should be shuttered and sold off, proceeds used to clear the National Debt for all the good that they do.
Yes, indeed the British Embassy bring shame upon themselves and the country they are supposed to serve.
My own experience was to request a confirmation letter of some such nonsense that is oft required here. Despite my reciting the opening page of the Passport to the Embassy staff:
"Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State Requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary";
I was met with insolence and idiocy when suggesting that this request was aimed at all officials, regardless of Nationality and that, as British Embassy staff, they should be the most focussed on affording the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary. Alas no.
In the end, I had to draft said letter by way of my own lawyer, self certifying 'what the Embassy would have said' in their non-existent letter. The Head of Khmer Immigration admitted that he was shocked and amazed that such letters are indeed beneath staffers at the (redundant) Embassy.
The Embassy site should be shuttered and sold off, proceeds used to clear the National Debt for all the good that they do.