Victim of Consultant

Dear Nepal Finland,

   Thank you for giving out so much  informations abt Finland. You've really been a great help. Now I've  a small problem and I hope you'll help me out.
  I applied myself but taking the help of Finnish Information Centre. It is not a consultancy but they call themselves non-profitable organisation disseminiting info. abt Finland and its culture.
 Firstly I became their member and they helped me on how I should apply. I took the help so that I wouldn't make any mistakes. But while applying I gave their post box no as they told me that docs may not arrive if I give my home address.
   Now I feel that later on while applying for visa, the consular may suspect that I applied through consultancy as there are other 20-25 students who have given the same address.
What should I do? Should I mail the college for changing my address or is that ok??
 waiting for your suggestions.

Thank you very much for your kind appreciation of the blog.  I really suspect that to be a consultant since if they are not, they should have encouraged your to give your own address. Since they gave their  own address, they are trying to keep a hole open to blackmail you later since the document arrives to their address not yours. Also, why you need to be the member of that consultancy to get help. If they really wish to help, they would not have bound you. So, I am sure that it is one of the fraud consultants as others.

I don't believe this sentence that the document won't be delivered to your address. Of course, the document will be delivered to your address. If you really think so, you can open your own GPO Box at Sundhara or else where to ensure delivery to your own GPO Box. It will cost you only 600 NRS as far as my knowledge. So, its always better to operate from your own address or GPO Box rather than paying those fraud consultant with lakhs of amount for using address only.

I strongly suggest you to start the process of changing your address immediately and also inform the Embassy about the consultant. It will ensure your own protection as you mention the suspect of Embassy since you will inform them yourself. Also, helps them to keep track of fraud consultants to help and save other students as well.

Following post will guide you through the process of changing mail address:

Avoiding fraud consultants of Nepal (http://www.nepalfinland.com/2008/04/avoiding-fraud-consultants-of-nepal.html)

Below is the link about one of the successful student who changed his address using the process mentioned on above post. This post also contains the sample of the email which he sent to the college to change his address:

Attempts to change my mail address to protect 3 lakhs from fraud consultant
(http://www.nepalfinland.com/2008/04/attempts-to-change-my-mail-address-to.html)


Best of Luck !!