In these situations, you have to push a little bit and talk to more than the person at the window and you can get whatever you want. This is basically the problem at the Bangladeshi Embassy right now. There's a shitload of problems in that country so the answer for everyone is no. Except that they have already given permission to the rest of my team, and the person at the window just hasn't gotten that memo yet. So my travel agent just needs to investigate a little harder and talk to someone else in the office. Instead, I get this email:
1. Please let me know your family's name in Japan.All of this completely unrelated to my visa claim and unintelligible. The bottom line is stay out of countries where you need a visa and don't ask a Japanese to elbow for you.
2. Please let me know your school's president name.
3. Please let me know local contact (address, name, if he or she is your friend, need connection with you.)