Oluwatoyin Tobi's Travel Blog

Sri Lanka’s citizens won’t have to apply for a Lithuanian visa through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Sri Lanka anymore, as the Schengen Member has opened a visa center in Colombo through the VFS Global. The center has been officially inaugurated by the ambassador of Lithuania in New Delhi, Julius Pranevičius, SchengenVisa.Info reports. The regional group chief operating officer in South Asia, Middle East and North Africa, Americas in VFS Global, Vinay Malhotra, said that   “a long association with the Embassy of Lithuania, and extending our services to Sri Lanka reaffirms the faith that costumers have placed in us through the years. We look forward to welcoming the residents of Sri Lanka to our new center in Colombo and offering them our best-in-class services.” The optional premium lounge service for visa applicants for Lithuania will also save more time during the process of application. According to the new Schengen visa rules , effective as of February 2,...

Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea, is itself an important part of Korea’s cultural heritage and the most popular attraction among overseas visitors to Korea. Although it is now one of the very largest modern metropolises in the world, its downtown area is enclosed by historic walls that were originally built over 600 years ago and contains a number of valuable historical heritage including Royal Palaces, fortress gates, and old residential districts.    Gyeongbokgung Palace   Dancheong is a traditional method of decorating various palace and temple buildings with intricate patterns of the five cardinal colors, blue (symbolizing the east), white (west), red (south), black (north) and yellow (center). This type of painting also serves to protect wooden structures from the elements. Located at the foot of Bugaksan, the main mountain overlooking downtown Seoul, Gyeongbokgung was the principal Royal Palace for about 200 years from its constru...

Several  staff members of a Tourist Agency in Oran, Algeria have been arrested, under the suspicions of visa forgery. Throughout an action of the investigative brigade of the judicial police of Oran, police have seized several passports that belonged to the persons who fell into the trap of the Tourist Agency that promised them visas. The police have recovered other devices such as computer equipment, smartphones, a scanner, and phone chips,  SchengenVisaInfo.com  reports. Before opening the investigation, the judicial police in Oran has used cross-checked information, in order to facilitate the identification of the traffickers who have been working in the Travel Agency. The operation was carried out after the police obtained evidence on visa forging by the agency. This case is not the only one  that happened in the area of Oran, as last year another network specializing in the trafficking of visas,  has been caught up by Oran’s police . As t...