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killian
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Location: fairmont city, illinois, USA
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 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:16 am Post subject: visa run to...america! |
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they say i must go back to my home country to get my work permit! not just another country but my home country.
any advice which chinese embassy in the US: LA, SF, NYC, DC is will be the least hassle? |
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Ariadne
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: |
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The least hassle would be using a visa service once you get there.
Fly to whichever city has the cheapest flights and where you have a place to stay.
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North China Laowei
Joined: 08 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:22 am Post subject: Re: visa run to...america! |
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| killian wrote: |
they say i must go back to my home country to get my work permit! not just another country but my home country.
any advice which chinese embassy in the US: LA, SF, NYC, DC is will be the least hassle? |
I am surprised at this. Hong Kong is still issuing the Z visa with no problems; when your school request your visa, etc., etc., did they not ask you where you want to pick up your papers?
Are you working for a government school or university or a private training center? This smacks to me of a private training center but perhaps I am wrong.
In terms of the Consulates, New York is the largest and probably the most knowledgeable. DC is fine and LA tends to be slower with the new information from the mainland. As for SF, I don't know one way or the other.
Perhaps if you might be kind enough to share some more information I could give you a better answer.
Thanks. |
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arioch36
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new York City has always been good. The consulate convenient to the main bus terminal
But ... who is "they"? i feel like I am in the classroom pumping the student to give more information. The school? Some 22 y/o girl working the first job ever in the FAO office? Or the local PSB? Everbright visa service?
I wouldn't trust or mistrust the statement of the official at the school, but most of them don't know what they should know. Or why do you need to do this in the first place?
Who is going to pay for this trip? If it is you, I would be making some enquiries to ascertain for myself the truth. Of course you could be gutsy and send the passport back home to a friend (not that I am recommending it)
Of course, if it was my school, and I had to pay for a plane trip to my home country because they didn't give me a z-visa to begin with, I think I would find a new school.
Reason 1,001 to come here on a z-visa |
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arioch36
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| Best and cheapest way to deal with that is send your passport to visa agent in USA, then take a train to hong kong and back to complete the exit and entry formalities. |
what I actually meant. These agents go to the consulate with big bundles. Last time I was in the states used a Chinese company to buy my ticket, and they did my visa free of charge. It would still scare me to send my passport overseas
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| PS> Its really amusing reviewing all the posts, and seeing the users that advised folks to come here on a tourist visa starting to backpeddle |
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Moon Over Parma
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: visa run to...america! |
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| North China Laowei wrote: |
I am surprised at this. Hong Kong is still issuing the Z visa with no problems |
That is correct. A coworker just returned from a successful HK visa run. He has his working visa and was back to work on Monday. |
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Moon Over Parma
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| arioch36 wrote: |
| new York City has always been good. The consulate convenient to the main bus terminal |
The Port Authority bus terminal. Spend the morning and afternoon reading a book and sipping joe in nearby Hell's Kitchen. |
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North China Laowei
Joined: 08 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:53 pm Post subject: See Below |
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| Moon Over Parma wrote: |
| arioch36 wrote: |
| new York City has always been good. The consulate convenient to the main bus terminal |
The Port Authority bus terminal. Spend the morning and afternoon reading a book and sipping joe in nearby Hell's Kitchen. |
It's still quite a hike from Port Authority on West 42nd to the Consulate which is way over by the Piers and it is surely not in the most pleasant of neighborhoods. All that being said, there is an MTA bus from Port Authority almost to the door of the Consulate.
Like Arioch36 said, you really need to check this one out carefully. Before I would fly home on my dime, more like my USD 2,000.00, I would find another school.
And like MoonOverParma wrote, yes, Hong Kong is still open for the Z visa. You are really being mislead, or so at least I feel. |
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killian
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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Location: fairmont city, illinois, USA
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my position is a bit unique. i work at a public middle school in the middle of no where. but...i don't work for the school. i work for a huge foreign corporation that is building manufacturing facilities nearby. the foreign company is "gifting" the local school with foreign teachers. the company wants to be here for the long run and knows that having workers who can do a bit of english is a good thing, so...here i am.
the school pretty much leaves me alone and knows nothing about the visa process. the company leaves me alone but seemingly knows nothing about the visa process for folks from natioons other than it's home nation.
i am not paying for any of it. if i go to HK, fine. seoul, OK. USA? ok. just paid vacation to me. |
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North China Laowei
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