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Ecuador announces number of closures of embassies, consulates

crowdpub
#1
Two consulates closing or already closed are New Orleans and San Francisco.

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S
#2
There was a wonderful ecuadorian embassies in Atlanta and it in a beautiful building.
Friendly people and very informative....
I am sure these embassies are expensive for countries to have and espically poor countries.........how many can you have?聽 Believe it or not the world is cutting back every where every where things are not good in economy so countries cut back they call budgets.

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BobH
#3
I was rather surprised to learn that there is a consulate here in Phoenix -- this isn't a city with a lot of consulates, and usually Arizonans need to go to LA.

Ecuador seems to have a lot more embassies than most countries, at least here in the US -- it's not surprising that they would close a couple.
gardener1
#4
San Francisco? Gah this is a tragedy.

For some reason the link is 'under review'?

Could you tell us where you found this closure information please? At least the name of the newspaper or where ever it turned up.
Nards Barley
#5
Newbies always get their links placed under review, under suspicion that they may be trying to promote something.

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mugtech
#6

Nards Barley wrote:

Newbies always get their links placed under review, under suspicion that they may be trying to promote something.


Not only that, but he is from Ecuador and now actually lives in Phoenix, adding to the suspicion.

Nards Barley
#7

mugtech wrote:
Nards Barley wrote:

Newbies always get their links placed under review, under suspicion that they may be trying to promote something.


Not only that, but he is from Ecuador and now actually lives in Phoenix, adding to the suspicion.


Your comment prompted me to read his profile. He mentions he is the author of book on Ecuador.聽 I actually bought and read portions of it before coming to Ecuador.聽 But if memory serves me is not from Ecuador, although his wife is.

Nards Barley
#8

gardener1 wrote:

Could you tell us where you found this closure information please? At least the name of the newspaper or where ever it turned up.


I just stumbled upon an article in El Mercurio.

gardener1
#9
That must be the one he referenced Nards because it's dated today.

Thanks for finding it even though it doesn't make me less sad.

The nearest Ecuador consulate to me in any direction is now about 2,000 miles away.

I'm assuming we'll be redistricted to the LA consulate. I haven't been to LA in 40 years and I was hoping to never repeat the experience.

So at the time we start the visa process, and if our retirement income has to be certified by an Ecuadoran ministry before departing for Ecuador (as according to Zen Spike), I'm going to have to haul my keister to LA and spend days down there lost in a rental car. My god that sounds horrible. I'm too old to have to deal with that.

There has to be another way.....
Nards Barley
#10

gardener1 wrote:

There has to be another way.....


I would think you could send notarized copies of your passports and whatever else, and just mail it to them for their authorization.

gardener1
#11
I hope you'd be right about that but I don't know.

The embassy/consulates here in the US simply do not answer questions or communications that aren't in person, either by phone or ewmail. There is no way to ask them since so far, they have never responded to any of our inquiries.

I could just sit down and cry right now. We're only about a year out from the big push. And now this.
Nards Barley
#12

gardener1 wrote:

I hope you'd be right about that but I don't know.

The embassy/consulates here in the US simply do not answer questions or communications that aren't in person, either by phone or ewmail. There is no way to ask them since so far, they have never responded to any of our inquiries.

I could just sit down and cry right now. We're only about a year out from the big push. And now this.


I would post a question on Gringo Tree or Post. I would think somebody tried to meet the requirements for a pensioners visa in recent months without actually going to a consulate office.

mindstorm
#13
Most of got our resident visas without ever visiting a consulate in the US.聽 In fact, those few that have said they used the consulate are usually the ones that say they have a lot of trouble and the consulate gave them bad info.

Just get all your docs in place, and submit once you are here.聽 Typical turnaround in Cuenca is now 4 weeks after the application is accepted.
S
#14
Heard the same thing too
crowdpub
#15
The primary reason the consulate is in Phoenix is to assist many of the Ecuadorians who have been incarcerated after coming into the U.S. illegally. That is what was reported in a local paper.
crowdpub
#16
The original source was Ecuavisa.
BobH
#17

crowdpub wrote:

The primary reason the consulate is in Phoenix is to assist many of the Ecuadorians who have been incarcerated after coming into the U.S. illegally. That is what was reported in a local paper.


That would make sense, I guess. So are Ecuadorians flying to Mexico聽 and crossing the desert in significant numbers?

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