Originally Posted by
wjv144
Hi Moondog,
I just wanted to point out that for EU citizens "rush service" is no longer available (without assistance of visa agent)
The type of visa is irrelevant, i just mentioned my Z-visa application because it was at that moment tat I found out. New ruling valid for any type of visa.
I had booked one hotel night, next evening plane ticket, no laptop or clothes with me. In the end I stayed 5 days in HKG, which I enjoyed a lot (boss payed the bill
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All paper work to prepare for the Z visa application took me 4 weeks and is handled quite smoothly by Shanghai City Government. Only (very) week point is that all forms must be filled out in Chinese......not very convenient for a non Mandarin speaker. Luckily the secretary was very patient with me
Is this for HKG only? My sister (a British citizen) got her L visa a couple of months ago in 2-3 days, but she did use a visa agency. This was in the UK, however, and that was the standard turnaround time (i.e. no different to a year ago).
tb