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I tried to get a Schengen visa through them. They took nearly 5,000 rupees as charges for doing this and visa got rejected. I have a stable job in a private company in Chennai with 45 lakhs per annum package. I had fully refundable tickets. I only asked them to book the hotel hotels and give me a dummy portal booking as well to help me write the covering letter as well as the application form. They did all that , the application form was okay but the covering letter was so bad. And despite me giving additional documents like my marriage certificate and everything they still botched up the entire covering letter and I think their hotel bookings also looked fake and they made me pay for premium as well in VFS saying that it will take less time. And now I have only 15 days to apply for a new Visa. Do not trust these guys at all. After rejection I went back to them asking them whether they can help me with reapplying and they asked for $6,000 rupees and told me that they will only help if the payment is done beforehand.

I just received a PP and when I try to add it in the app, it is showing an error. The help option doesn't really help much.

We are a group of 6 people travelling through Europe and we have 3 days in Berlin. It seems that all airbnbs are no smoking and we do smoke quite a bit. The hotels are extremely expensive and the ratings are quite low on them too. The hostels seem to be nice but we are well into our 30s and hostel seem like a young persons game. Where should we book a hotel that's within our budget of say 100€ per day for a room?

I have given my application to the Czech Consulate. It's been close to 10 days and there's been no update at all. Does anyone have any experience with the Mumbai consulate and its timelines? My travel is in October so I have enough time but since it's my first Schengen, I am a bit worried.

Amazon and Flipkart are selling clones. There is a website called electroniks but I fear getting scammed. Anyone has any links?