Has anyone going to China recently been able to get a 60 or 90 day visa applying in Hong Kong or here through a travel agent?
Should be no problem as you have an ARC here. Just ask a travel agent.
Should be no problem as you have an ARC here. Just ask a travel agent.[/quote]
Travel agents here can only get you a multiple entry visa good for 30 days each visit.
Should be no problem as you have an ARC here. Just ask a travel agent.[/quote]
Travel agents here can only get you a multiple entry visa good for 30 days each visit.[/quote]
Well China has cracked down on visas as so many using them to work illegally. Some visa’s are extendable in China. You plan on being there more than 30 days in one trip?
Luckily I got a 5 year Taiboazheng with the one year stay visa that is extendablke in China.
I need to spend 3-4 months there, not necessarily in a row.
A travel agency in HK has said they can still get 90 day double entry visas but I am hesitant to go that route in case they really can’t. Most things I’ve read recently suggest it’s hard to get more than a 30 day double entry visa from HK.
Extending is no good on a multi-entry. Once you extend the visa is cancelled for further entries.
Should be no problem as you have an ARC here. Just ask a travel agent.[/quote]
That seems no longer be the case:
While I have an ARC being married to my local spouse, the Travel Agency can’t deliver a Tourist Visa as …I am not employed :loco:
Very odd - anyone else got this issue in the past or recently - and how solving it?
Question: Is it possible for an American w/out ARC/employment to get a VISA to China without sending the passport back to the States? One of my technicians who is here now will be leaving in two weeks, however, he needs to make a stop in China on the way back home. Is this possible either through Hong Kong/Taiwan travel agents?
You can do it in person in Hong Kong. I don’t think there’s any way to do it through the mail without sending it back to the US.
They only let you do it by mail in HK if you are a “foreign businessperson residing in Taiwan.” Hence the need for the ARC and the employment.
ceevee - I would suggest that you just make up a job and get yourself a business card printed, then try it out with a different travel agent.
Should be no problem as you have an ARC here. Just ask a travel agent.[/quote]
That seems no longer be the case:
While I have an ARC being married to my local spouse, the Travel Agency can’t deliver a Tourist Visa as …I am not employed :loco:
Very odd - anyone else got this issue in the past or recently - and how solving it?[/quote]
Unless rules have changed in the past 2 months I think the agent doesn’t know what he is talking about. I am not “employed” either as I work entirely freelance and have my ARC through marriage. Never had a problem. Try Whose Travel in Taichung.
Depends on your nationality.
The way it was explained to me is only Americans and people of Chinese descent are allowed a 2 year L visa. Chinese descent can apply anywhere, Americans have to apply within the US to get the 2 year L, both maximum 30 day stay each time.
I applied last year here through a travel agent and got a 1 year F multiple entry 2 month duration. I was also told that only American passport is allowed a one year F as long as there are previous visas issued in that passport “in good standing” (basically didn’t overstay). After the successful completion of that visa, Americans can apply for 2 year F visas. She took my passport and it came back in about 3 weeks with an L.A.-issued visa. According to her, passports that aren’t American are allowed a max of 6 months on an F visa. Not really sure why that is.
If I were you, I would try to find a travel agent here to do it that can send it back to your home country or wherever they have guanxi. Or better yet, just have a friend/family member apply for you at home. I let my visa slide without renewing it about 2 years ago and had to get a new one. In Macau, they gave me a 7 day visa. 7 days. That was after they forged my paperwork because I needed a sponsor and US$700 in cash (which I didn’t have) and I went to the Taibaozheng desk and pleaded with them. They copied someone else’s sponsor info off a different application and “saw the money”…I took it straight to Beijing and paid someone off for a 3 month extension, but the point remains that it’s never definite what they will give you. I paid money to go to Macau, paid for expedited service, paid for a ticket to BJ, then paid again to change the visa. Last year, I just paid more up front to an agent here and got it taken care of with the visa I wanted.
Don’t let your Mainland visas slide. If you have a good one, pay someone off and extend it before you leave. It’s far easier to have a ‘visa agent’ within Mainland help you settle visa issues than it is to try and find some guanxi in an embassy. My friend had her passport come back once with a Z visa from an English school from somewhere in Hebei once.