Permission Status Checks

[MartinWestby]

I know that a lot of people are becoming concerned about the slowness of permissions being granted from the MoFa in Zagreb for permission to purchase.

I recently took advantage of a service offered by a company in Zagreb. An English speaking Croat contacts the offices on your behalf and reports back with a status report for your application. This does no harm to your application and they can obtain likely end dates. They can not speed the application but the knowledge of knowing your UP number and where you are in the process is invaluable. It can help in the planning of reselling and rental licensing.
Basically you pay for someone’s time to sit on a telephone in Zagreb.

What the service provides:

Clarification of where the application is – Ministry of Foreign Affairs or Ministry of Justice

Confirmation of when the Application was received by whichever Ministry

UP (Case number) number if it’s been issued

Name of person dealing with the case if it’s been assigned.

Likely date for the application to be completed if possible (dependant on where it is in the system it is not always possible to get this information)

The charge for this one time check and email report is £50.00
This report could take up to 1 month to obtain because of the opening hours of the various Ministries.

If interested send me an email detailing the property address, the name (s) of the purchases, the purchase date, and the solicitors name and address.
I will forward that on to the company on your behalf.
Put “Permission Status check” in the subject line and send to:
[e-mail]

Best Wishes

Martin Westby
Website www.Croatia-HolidayandHome.co.uk
The site to visit for buying property or holidaying in Croatia
[e-mail]
Telephone [phone]
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From outside the UK:
Telephone [phone]
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[mark2]

wouldn't it be more fair to post the company's website, or direct contact details. This would also save time, as I used your website's link for land registry search over a year ago (sending full details of the property, owner etc and requesting payment details) and received no reply. How much does this company charge, what are they called. 50 quid for an email sounds a little expensive to me.

[MartinWestby]

Im concerned that you had earlier bad service -different company-please complain to me direct-with your actual name - so I can find why the service didnt happen.

Believe me- when you work out the hourly rate based on the phone time and sat in an office -£50 is cheap.

Best Wishes

Martin Westby
Website www.Croatia-HolidayandHome.co.uk
The site to visit for buying property or holidaying in Croatia
[e-mail]
Telephone [phone]
Fax [phone]
From outside the UK:
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Fax [phone]

[brianmcc]

Hi , Have just used Martin's status check with the MFA.
Sent in all the details requested and got a full report back in 2 days ,hadn't even sent the money for the report.
It highlighted a problem with my application which My lawyer hadn't even told me about and which I wouldn't have know about without using this service as I was under the impression everything was OK and was just sitting back like everyone else waiting on my Approval .
I had bought last June 04" ,and it now turns out the MFA had sent back my application to my Lawyer as there wasn't enough documentation sent in, My Lawyer denies getting anything back from the MFA. She is now working on my MFA application again . I think she got a bit of a shock that I was able to produce this report from the MFA.
I would highly recommend this status check as I could have been waiting 2 or 3 years and then find out it wasn't being processed.
Brian (Dub)

[rab]

[brianmcc]

I am just preparing the necessary documentation and trying to fathom what documentation to send.

Were there specific items that MOFA asked for?

[brianmcc]

Hi Rab , if you want to do a MFA status check ,you need to send the following to Martin Westby at the above link,
1. date of purchase ,
2. Your Name ,
3. The name of the Prop you bought ,
4. your Lawyers name.

If you are applying for MFA approval you need to send the following to the MFA.
1. Original Purchase Contract.
2. Copy of your passport.
3. Katastar plans for the Property.
4. Ownership papers(of the seller).
5. Uvjerenje - it is the Certificate from Croatian Goverment office in the area you are buying for the usage of the Land.
I would recommend you to get a good Lawyer to make your application- I thought I got a good Lawyer , but turned out I didn't.
Hope this helps
Brian

rab said:

[brianmcc]

I am just preparing the necessary documentation and trying to fathom what documentation to send.

Were there specific items that MOFA asked for?

[loneranger]

it is quite obvious that brianmcc is Martin Westby...don't you reckon! Brian seems to know it all and thoroughly recommends Martin, not even parted with his money yet ....seems to know all the answers? You send the money to Martin direct, the cost of the call is probably about 50kuna (£5), and he gets the rest. He has become a big money-making machine - pretending he is good and user-friendly, but everything goes through him, and he creams a huge percentage off the top. He will never give you a direct telephone number, or email address - he doesn't get a cut if he does that. However, if you are prepared to part with £50, it is a good service. Everyone is so corrupt - you certainly can't trust your solicitor, you can't trust the government, they are all waiting for big, fat backhanders. They are all dishonest, yet feign to be charming - I have yet to meet a Croatian who has any scruples or integrity. Lets hope that having parted with your money you will get a straight answer.

[EMIZZZZAGREB]

loneranger said:

it is quite obvious that brianmcc is Martin Westby...don't you reckon! Brian seems to know it all and thoroughly recommends Martin, not even parted with his money yet ....seems to know all the answers? You send the money to Martin direct, the cost of the call is probably about 50kuna (£5), and he gets the rest. He has become a big money-making machine - pretending he is good and user-friendly, but everything goes through him, and he creams a huge percentage off the top. He will never give you a direct telephone number, or email address - he doesn't get a cut if he does that. However, if you are prepared to part with £50, it is a good service. Everyone is so corrupt - you certainly can't trust your solicitor, you can't trust the government, they are all waiting for big, fat backhanders. They are all dishonest, yet feign to be charming - I have yet to meet a Croatian who has any scruples or integrity. Lets hope that having parted with your money you will get a straight answer.

I’m sorry but your assumptions are in no way obvious.

You could be right, you could be wrong, but if you are going to accuse somebody who is very open about his identity on this site, I suggest you have something to back it up.


Although I should add I agree with the closing part of your post.

[brianmcc]

loneranger said:

it is quite obvious that brianmcc is Martin Westby...don't you reckon! Brian seems to know it all and thoroughly recommends Martin, not even parted with his money yet ....seems to know all the answers? You send the money to Martin direct, the cost of the call is probably about 50kuna (£5), and he gets the rest. He has become a big money-making machine - pretending he is good and user-friendly, but everything goes through him, and he creams a huge percentage off the top. He will never give you a direct telephone number, or email address - he doesn't get a cut if he does that. However, if you are prepared to part with £50, it is a good service. Everyone is so corrupt - you certainly can't trust your solicitor, you can't trust the government, they are all waiting for big, fat backhanders. They are all dishonest, yet feign to be charming - I have yet to meet a Croatian who has any scruples or integrity. Lets hope that having parted with your money you will get a straight answer.

Sorry loneranger, nothing that exciting.
My Name is Brian, I live in Dublin Ireland , married with one child and build machines for a living.
All the information I wrote was on the bottom of the Report I recieved,
I was only answering a straight question from Rab with a straight answer.
I was happy to pay £50 as it has possible saved me a couple of years waiting for MFA approval which never would have arrived.
Nobody forced me to have a report carried out ,it was my own choice and my own money.
Rgds
Brian

[ivo]

loneranger said:

I have yet to meet a Croatian who has any scruples or integrity.

Generalization is the beginning of racism.

[Culchie]

Gotta say, and I've had my little 'debates' with Martin over the past, that he is not one to hide behind 'aliases'.

I think you are wrong Loneranger.

[markcognevich]

Can they find out about a place I started building and was stopped becasue I did not have the right papers. I finally got the papers to keep it. I just need the papers to finish it. Can they find this out for me? My email address is [e-mail] please let me know if they can help with this. Thanks mark