its saddening how "important" this VISA topic is to our local politicians and not only to them also to the one representing us "Gweilos" for example in Brussels ( in this highly over-managed + over paid system called EU - which has a very high interest in boosting business with China):
1)
the HK SAR Secretary of Security copies mostly messages from the COMMISSIONERS OFFICE and finally answers that he regrets cannot give an answer how to apply for the VISA NOTIFICATION LETTER (why they do not ask the other part of the ONE COUNTRY ?)
Is it so difficult ?
2)
An email to Mr Verheugen (http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/verheugen/team_en.htm) in Brussels was answered after 1 month with the info that his department is the wrong one and the "enquiry" was passed to another department and most probably this other department needs another month to explain that another department is responsible......Sorry - maybe I am too stupid to find the right department.
3)
An email to Mr. Barroso about this topic during the time he was in Beijing - not answered at all - who comes China normally with an entourage of business people to sign multibillion dollar contracts - why shall they care about our little stupid visa problems....... (actually it was anyhow only filtered by his office - whatever overpaid person is sitting there and sorting out the emails).
4)
All the HK Chambers after some letters to the central government seem fallen asleep again.
Or do they have secret meetings "for members only" ?
5)
No answers from Mrs Anson Chan (why should she ?), Mr. Howard Young and a Mrs Sophie Cheung or Leung (from the department of destroying garment + manufacturing business),
There can only be one conclusion:
THIS PEOPLE ARE SIMPLY TOO IMPORTANT TO TAKE CARE OF SUCH A CRAP LIKE THIS VISA THING AND OUR PROBLEMS WITH THIS !
MAYBE A LITTLE NOISE WILL WAKE YOU UP: LED ZEP - IMMIGRANT SONG 1972 - PLAY IT LOUD !
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Yes why no NEWS on this .....It seems all the people already adjusted to this nonsense. Unfortunately we had an enquiry for downjackets we only can do in Shanghai area - we refused it as we need togo ourselves to this factory to set up the things - because local chinese staff is not able to negotiate business like this. We told the customer lets wait until we can go freely again as we are not willing to place orders to Jiangsu or Zhejiang province or even more far as the visa situation is not clear and we cannot move our ass there - so we have to stick in our HK office and simply do nothing on enquiries like this..............What a rubbish !!!
There need at least some more things to get broken, before something happens. This is bureaucracy at its worst.
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