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The visa was approved yesterday and I received a blue slip after the visa interview. The blue slip has instruction on where and when to pick up the passport and visa package .

The pick up time was 3-4 p.m at the Visa Facilitation Service (VFS) office at Wisma MCA, which is at Jalan Ampang, adjacent to Citibank and opposite China Bank. I took a LRT train, got down at Ampang Park station, took the exit that has “Wisma MCA” on it and walked towards Citibank. Wisma MCA is two buildings away from Citibank.

There was quite a crowd, about 50- 60 people were in line when I arrived at the entrance of VFS office at 2.45 p.m.  The office was closed and only opened at 3.00p.m. Despite the long line, it went really fast.

Most people were there to pick up visitor’s visas. In fact, I was one of the two people who were picking up immigrant visas on that day. The man who served me  at the counter was kind of goofy. He was looking high and low for my passport at the drawer that held all the visitor’s visas. He looked kind of perplexed when he could not find mine, he searched one more time, could not find! Opened another drawer, still could not find!

So, I reminded him I was picking up immigrant visa. Actually, the consular staff made a note on the blue slip, he must have not paying attention to that. :-) He suddenly realized his mistake and albeit embarrassingly took out a bag from another drawer and gave me the passport and visa package.

I got out there at 3.15 p.m!.