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KYC
Joined: 11 May 2006
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 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:10 am Post subject: Chinese Visa for Americans |
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Ok..I have been to 2 travel agency this week and couldn't get a visa. First, they fed me some bs about needing an actual paper ticker instead of a printed e ticket. I told them my friend was able to obtain one with an eticket...then they tell me I need a hotel voucher. I have hotel reservations & printed it to show them but they want a voucher showing I paid for the hotel reservations. I don't pay until I get to the hotel. They said the Chinese Embassy wouldn't issue me a visa unless I have a voucher showing them I paid for the hotel room.
I'm tired. I know it's possible to obtain a chinese visa without all that crap. Could someone point me to where.... |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| ask the folks at xanadu travel in itaewon, or search for their website online |
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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| I bought my ticket at same place that got my visa. It was no problem. Keep looking around. If they dont speak english try going to a travel agency near any military base. |
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waltjocketty
Joined: 09 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Chinese Visa for Americans |
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| KYC wrote: |
Ok..I have been to 2 travel agency this week and couldn't get a visa. First, they fed me some bs about needing an actual paper ticker instead of a printed e ticket. I told them my friend was able to obtain one with an eticket...then they tell me I need a hotel voucher. I have hotel reservations & printed it to show them but they want a voucher showing I paid for the hotel reservations. I don't pay until I get to the hotel. They said the Chinese Embassy wouldn't issue me a visa unless I have a voucher showing them I paid for the hotel room.
I'm tired. I know it's possible to obtain a chinese visa without all that crap. Could someone point me to where.... |
As of April 14 there are new, stricter visa restrictions for Americans. Check out the Chinese Embassy in USA website for details. Here is the copied and pasted info:
Updated: 14/04/2008
Tourist Visa (L Visa) is issued to an alien who comes to China for sightseeing or visiting family members or friends.
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Please submit the following documents with your application:
1. Passport: Your valid passport must have at least six (6) months of remaining validity with at least one blank visa page in it.
2. Application form: One completed Visa Application Form (Q1)
3. Photo: one passport photo (black & white or color is acceptable) glued or stapled on the application form.
4. Non-US passport bearers shall provide documents that entitle them to reside or work for an extended period of time in the US.
5. An applicant who was born in China is required to submit his /her Chinese passport or last foreign passport with a Chinese visa when he/she applies for a Chinese visa with a new foreign passport.
6. Tourists to China shall provide round trip air tickets and hotel reservation.
7. Applicants visiting friends and family members shall provide round trip air tickets and certificates of kinship.
source: http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/hzqz/zgqz/t84246.htm
I also heard that 50 Americans were arrested recently for lying on their itinerary/not having their passports with them at all times, and people are being denied their visas in HK left and right, and people who have been living abroad in China for years are even having problems going back to China, despite having houses and families and careers in China. China and America are in a kind of war right now, they hate each other, and it's only getting harder for Americans to enter China these days. |
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JerBear
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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I used to work for a visa/passport courier firm in Texas. I can tell you that there's no problem with sending your passport back to the States to get a visa stamped there by the consulate. You just have to fill out the application form specific to the consulate there and you have to put your stateside address, not your Korean address.
If you need assistance, PM me and I'll be happy to hook you up. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Chinese Visa for Americans |
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| waltjocketty wrote: |
| KYC wrote: |
Ok..I have been to 2 travel agency this week and couldn't get a visa. First, they fed me some bs about needing an actual paper ticker instead of a printed e ticket. I told them my friend was able to obtain one with an eticket...then they tell me I need a hotel voucher. I have hotel reservations & printed it to show them but they want a voucher showing I paid for the hotel reservations. I don't pay until I get to the hotel. They said the Chinese Embassy wouldn't issue me a visa unless I have a voucher showing them I paid for the hotel room.
I'm tired. I know it's possible to obtain a chinese visa without all that crap. Could someone point me to where.... |
As of April 14 there are new, stricter visa restrictions for Americans. Check out the Chinese Embassy in USA website for details. Here is the copied and pasted info:
Updated: 14/04/2008
Tourist Visa (L Visa) is issued to an alien who comes to China for sightseeing or visiting family members or friends.
*
Please submit the following documents with your application:
1. Passport: Your valid passport must have at least six (6) months of remaining validity with at least one blank visa page in it.
2. Application form: One completed Visa Application Form (Q1)
3. Photo: one passport photo (black & white or color is acceptable) glued or stapled on the application form.
4. Non-US passport bearers shall provide documents that entitle them to reside or work for an extended period of time in the US.
5. An applicant who was born in China is required to submit his /her Chinese passport or last foreign passport with a Chinese visa when he/she applies for a Chinese visa with a new foreign passport.
6. Tourists to China shall provide round trip air tickets and hotel reservation.
7. Applicants visiting friends and family members shall provide round trip air tickets and certificates of kinship.
source: http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/hzqz/zgqz/t84246.htm
I also heard that 50 Americans were arrested recently for lying on their itinerary/not having their passports with them at all times, and people are being denied their visas in HK left and right, and people who have been living abroad in China for years are even having problems going back to China, despite having houses and families and careers in China. China and America are in a kind of war right now, they hate each other, and it's only getting harder for Americans to enter China these days. |
Thanks for confirming my reason not to visit China until they get their friggin' act together. |
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