I couldn’t get a visa appointment again — it’s just impossible. So, goodbye to my New Year holidays in Europe

From my post title, everything is already clear. Right now, I have no words, and I honestly don’t understand what’s going on. I couldn’t get that messed-up appointment again, because everything was exactly the same as last time. I saw the same errors, the same notifications saying the appointment was occupied or “try again later.” Also, they only published dates for Moscow. All of this completely ruined my plans, because I wanted to go to Europe for the New Year holidays and celebrate there. Now I need to think about where else I can go for my holidays and start making new plans, because I still want to make my travel plans happen — even if it’s another country.

In early September, I actually had a chance to get an appointment for Italy, between October 20–26. If I had done it then, I could already have submitted my documents and just been waiting by now. But I hoped I could catch an appointment for Spain, and that they would later publish dates for other cities too. Now I’ve lost that chance, because the Italian visa center shows that all appointments are taken.

Another thing — the Telegram visa bot. It only notified me after all the appointments were already taken. I think it’s suspicious, because today someone wrote a message in the chat about new appointments on the visa website, and at that moment the bot didn’t notify me. I checked the website immediately, and there were appointments, but most of them were already gone. So I can only think one thing — that the bot doesn’t even want to notify users. Maybe it’s done on purpose because they have paying clients. I don’t know how much they charge, but today someone in that chat said they paid $300 for the bot, and it managed to get them an appointment.

Fucking scammers and losers. I just deleted that shitty bot from my Telegram. Next time, if I try to get a Schengen visa again, I’ll try Italy, France, or Portugal — because their websites are more convenient and work much better than that awful BLS site. BLS is the company that handles Spanish visas, and all they do is waste your nerves.