....some more explanations by Mr. Qin on SCMP front page today:
China had made "some arrangements" on visas according to the practice of past Olympics and usual international practice. Mr Qin:" This policy does not mean that all multiple-entry visas have been suspended. This policy will be maintained for a period of time in order to ensure China will have a safe environment". Where or how are we making the "environment" unsafe ?
Here a link about a "chinese visa seminar" held by the AmCham in Shanghai. If you read this, then the chance that we "dangerous HK foreign business people" getting back our normal, multiple entry F Visas soon, sounds like "Mission impossible".
http://oneeyedpanda.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/china-visa-update/
And here more from the CHINADAILY - enjoy + please do not "laugh" this is really "top serious":
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-05/07/content_6665678.htm
and here one more for todays "chinese visa" news from Danwei:
http://www.danwei.org/bureaucracy/visa_visa_where_are_you.php
here a little bit older one from "China media blog":
http://www.chinamediablog.com/2008/04/17/non-sequitur-of-china-business-visas/
ENJOY + HAVE A GOOD DAY !
5 comments:
We are a team of 3 Italy QA and normally need go together because we place quite big qty's - but then how to get this "government letter" ? We need to go to GZ, Wuxi, Suzhou + Hangzhou - then we need from each place this letter - is impossible we think - this is completely blocking us - we cannot move.
To the 3 men from Italy:
This is exactly what is still not answered. If you really managte to get 3 - 4 "visa notification letters" from different province / cities AND IF then you go and apply for a multiple-entry visa - how will the "remarks" in your visa look then ?
Permitted only to go to place 1 + place 2 + place 3 + place 4 ?
What if you need to go to Shijiazhuang + Wushaoling + Yangjiang + Zhangjiakou - 1 place you maybe need to cancel or maybe even 2 as probably not enough space in the field "remarks".
China has insisted multi-entry visas are available but said in a statement that officials would "consider the real need of the applicant" when granting one.
..........Maybe this guys should come to our office then we can EXPLAIN them the REAL NEED !!!!
We have a dozen of EU technicians here completely STUCK.....we have a hell of extra expenses - because our technicians should be in the factory and not hang around in our HK office and wait getting the next visa.
We need to delay several shipments because final tests + checks cannot be done in time. It is not very pleasing - and our customers even thinking we are telling them "stories" to have a reason to ship out late !
Me is working for a german discounter and I am a "travelling - technician" - I did not know the problem until I came here last week. I only could get a L visa through a travel agent w 2x entry and this is used up now. As I need to go back + forth I need to apply again now + again and again ????
We have to face serious problems: Our customers qc came here last week and only got a visa granted for 2 days to Ningbo to inspect a shipment of a 200,000 t-shirts (very urgent) - they had to leave again after 2 days and could not finish the job. Now they insisting that all the goods will be shipped via HK and first go in a go-down for final inspection by them. This is troublesome and very scary - if something is wrong they will reject and ask us to send it back for repairing.
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