Avoid visa request! From my personal experience I would not recommend anyone use their services. The consultants take chances and are not closely familiar with the rules and regulations of the consulates and different immigration laws. I was given the wrong instructions to proceed with a uk transit visa application before I had entry into my destination schengen area even after explicitly asking the consultant on this and the application was refused on those grounds.in my particular case there was really no room for error and this ended up costing me upwards of r7000 and I needed to book a new flight ticket directly into a schengen area. Their management team refused to take any responsibility in the matter and staff generally showed zero sense of urgency. My advice would be to do it yourself. At the end of the day almost all applications are online and visarequest adds little to no value during the process.