European Visa Centre launches website for applicants

The Common Visa Application Centre, which has started to receive applications in a trial run today, launched the www.cac.md website and a voicemail system available on 20 00 78, 22 86 68. Additional questions can be addressed by e-mail: cac@meganet.md, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Centre’s website contains all the information that might be helpful for visa applicants. The applications can be submitted from Monday to Friday, between 9.00 and 12.00. The visa-stamped passports will be distributed from Monday to Thursday, 13.00-14.30, and on Friday from 13.00 to 14.00. The Centre will be closed on Moldovan and Hungarian public and national holidays. At the same time, the Hungarian Embassy, which hosts the Centre, is still offering consular services. The organisers say that at least once a month, Austrian, Slovenian and Latvian consuls will pay visits to Chisinau to receive applications for long-term visas and perform other consular-related services, such as the authentication of signatures, receiving visa applications from their nationals, etc. Should the applicants desire to schedule a visit with the consuls, they may reach them directly. The Austrian Consul in Bucharest can be reached by telephone on: (+4021) 210 93 77, 210 39 33, by e-mail: bukarest-ka@bmeia.gv.at, by Fax: (+4021) 210 16 82. The Latvian Consul in Kiev - (+380 44) 490 70 37, E-mail: Latvia_CAC@mfa.gov.lv, Fax: (+380 44) 280 87 36. The Slovenian Consul in Kiev - (+380 44) 585 23 32, E-mail: boris.gole@gov.si, Fax: (+380 44) 585 23 43. The official opening of the Common Visa Application Centre will take place on April 25. Vice president of the European Commission, Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, Franco Frattini, and Foreign Ministers of Hungary and Austria, will participate in the event.