put as much paperwork as possible together to take with us to London for VFS to apply for our D7 Portugal Visa, fingers crossed it goes well as we handed over our Passports and Documents, had our photos taken plus electronic finger prints taken. all out of our hands now and told if not heard anything in 2 weeks may all be going well for the first step. later that afternoon to say application has been collected from Portugal visa application centre regards VSF so we think Documents and Passports on way to Portugal. they also asked us if we wanted our passports to go as well? we said yes to stop any delay for them to write to ask us to send them plus we paid the extra to have them courier back to us.

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