Hi there friends I need some advice
I’ve got my certificate of eligibility and I sent my visa application in to the Japanese Consulate of Los Angeles.
I mailed my passport and application off and my tracking number states that my package is in transit to its next location, but the tracking number never updated.
I mailed my passport and paperwork on May 15th in a One Day Express Mail envelope via USPS and the expected delivery date was May 16th.
I opened a lost mail search request on May 23rd for the package.
I called the consulate twice just incase they have received my package and the tracking number didn’t update. Every time I call someone tells me there’s too many packages for them to check, and two weeks need to pass after sending my application for them to do anything about it.
It’s Monday night now and it will be 2 weeks on Thursday, my plan now is to call on Wednesday to plead for help once again.
My backup plan is to get a new passport from the Los Angeles Embassy, but now my biggest worry is that if I receive my new passport, and somehow magically my old passport shows up on their doorstep, then they’ll use my certificate of eligibility to stamp my old (then invalidated) passport with my new visa, and then when I send in my new passport, I’ll have conflicting issues? I think?
Any advice is greatly appreciated, I feel like I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place.
by avirtualparadox