If you're able to, I think its easiest to just go to Vienna and get the Visa. The metro stop is literally around the corner from it so its easy to get to from anywhere in the city, and its all finished that afternoon. You can only go Tuesdays or Thursdays like it says in the PPR.
We left from Belgrade with bus at 5PM and got to Vienna at about 3AM, so we slept a bit, and left our friends place at 7:30AM exhausted and ready to get to the embassy, woohooo.
We got there at 8:30AM exactly, (the embassy, which is tiny, by the way.. is the 3rd floor of the building its in)
We went up, and infront of the door is a security guard, of course you can't take your phone or camera inside. He gives you a number ticket thing to wait your turn. We went in and sat down waiting our turn with about 5 of 6 other people.
When our turn came, we handed him the copy of our emailed PPR and told him we came to submit the passport, and he asked for the copy of my husbands passport, and the passport itself, we gave him that as well.. after a few seconds he told us to take a seat. After each person, the man working would take their papers to some back room (probably where the officers are working on the visas) and come back out and called the next person. After some 2 or 3 minutes, he called my husbands name, we went up again and he told us to come back at 3PM. I had to throw in the question "Will it be done by then?" because come on, I don't know what to expect at 3PM lol, and he gave me a sarcastic chuckle and was like "uhh yeah..." like as if I know, I am just asking lol jeez. :
So we left the embassy, toured Vienna (everyone should, its such a beautiful city! especially the Schonbrunn Palace, we spent all day there)
We got back to the embassy at 3PM totally exhausted and ready to fall asleep. This time we didn't get a number to wait.
The man working simply asked everyone "who came first, who came last?" He told people to come up to the counter in that order one by one. We were 3rd I think, everyone was confused, in my opinion they should have given us numbers again. :-\
We told him our Last name, and he handed us all of our pictures that we sent with our applications, at that point I was so excited haha. (by the way, the envelopes my pictures were in were kinda ripped up, it looked like they were eaten by a lion, maybe it won't be like that for your guys lol, the pictures were ok though)
Then he gave my husband a big white envelope.. :O We sat back down to make sure everything was there before we left. We opened it, and inside was his passport and COPR, with a letter saying your visa is now affixed in your passort etc etc and what is to follow. We opened the passort and there it was! Like a golden ticket! Finally, he can go back to meet my parents in person and not skype!
We had a bus back at 7PM for Belgrade, and we got home about 3AM.
And that concludes our journey to Vienna lol
We left from Belgrade with bus at 5PM and got to Vienna at about 3AM, so we slept a bit, and left our friends place at 7:30AM exhausted and ready to get to the embassy, woohooo.
We got there at 8:30AM exactly, (the embassy, which is tiny, by the way.. is the 3rd floor of the building its in)
We went up, and infront of the door is a security guard, of course you can't take your phone or camera inside. He gives you a number ticket thing to wait your turn. We went in and sat down waiting our turn with about 5 of 6 other people.
When our turn came, we handed him the copy of our emailed PPR and told him we came to submit the passport, and he asked for the copy of my husbands passport, and the passport itself, we gave him that as well.. after a few seconds he told us to take a seat. After each person, the man working would take their papers to some back room (probably where the officers are working on the visas) and come back out and called the next person. After some 2 or 3 minutes, he called my husbands name, we went up again and he told us to come back at 3PM. I had to throw in the question "Will it be done by then?" because come on, I don't know what to expect at 3PM lol, and he gave me a sarcastic chuckle and was like "uhh yeah..." like as if I know, I am just asking lol jeez. :
So we left the embassy, toured Vienna (everyone should, its such a beautiful city! especially the Schonbrunn Palace, we spent all day there)
We got back to the embassy at 3PM totally exhausted and ready to fall asleep. This time we didn't get a number to wait.
The man working simply asked everyone "who came first, who came last?" He told people to come up to the counter in that order one by one. We were 3rd I think, everyone was confused, in my opinion they should have given us numbers again. :-\
We told him our Last name, and he handed us all of our pictures that we sent with our applications, at that point I was so excited haha. (by the way, the envelopes my pictures were in were kinda ripped up, it looked like they were eaten by a lion, maybe it won't be like that for your guys lol, the pictures were ok though)
Then he gave my husband a big white envelope.. :O We sat back down to make sure everything was there before we left. We opened it, and inside was his passport and COPR, with a letter saying your visa is now affixed in your passort etc etc and what is to follow. We opened the passort and there it was! Like a golden ticket! Finally, he can go back to meet my parents in person and not skype!
We had a bus back at 7PM for Belgrade, and we got home about 3AM.
And that concludes our journey to Vienna
lol