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"Or, just figure out how to do this course with at least one border-run break in the middle, and get a multiple entry tourist visa."
If she'd kept life simple, she almost certainly could have gotten a ten-year multiple-entry L visa while she was in Hong Kong. Not sure whether that's possible elsewhere in Asia. But wandering consulate-to-consulate looking for someplace that'll slip up and not want a JW202 seems a fool's errand. I think it's reasonable to assume that when doing the paperwork online for the X2 visa there's a box the clerk now has to fill in with the number of the JW202, and unless that box is filled in, the computer won't process the visa application. It was much easier for consulates and embassies to show some flexibility before the advent of these computerized processing systems. |
Originally Posted by jiejie
(Post 29918079)
I think you're going to find the same story everywhere. If you want the X2 visa, I don't know what you can really do except go to the University in person and get the JW202, then exit China and apply. This is going to be disruptive to your current plans and cost some extra cash. The most reliable way is to apply for a Chinese L tourist visa which will enable you to at least get to Kunming and park yourself near the University until they cough up the JW202 and you take physical custody of it. Or, just figure out how to do this course with at least one border-run break in the middle, and get a multiple entry tourist visa right off the bat. Likely you'd be able to do the course without any official authority catching on (or caring).
Note: Recent anecdote from Bangkok suggests that they might now be friendlier to non-resident foreigners seeking Chinese visas without hassles. So you might check into that as well--they are using the China Visa Service Application Centre there now. Doesn't solve the missing JW202 problem though. |
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Returning from China recently, even on a 10 year visa they're stepping up info collection at the border. Full sets of fingerprints and pictures. if you even look remotely chinese they want chinese names and proof of that via other official documents. Had to show a HKID. Fingerprint verification upon entry every time after.
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Originally Posted by HGHUA
(Post 29938323)
Returning from China recently, even on a 10 year visa they're stepping up info collection at the border. Full sets of fingerprints and pictures. if you even look remotely chinese they want chinese names and proof of that via other official documents. Had to show a HKID. Fingerprint verification upon entry every time after.
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Originally Posted by B407
(Post 29938679)
I think that's only if they can see you were born in China or Hong Kong. I am ethnically Chinese, and look Chinese, but was born in the US and grew up in the west. Didn't get questioned at all when I went there recently.
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Originally Posted by HGHUA
(Post 29938323)
Returning from China recently, even on a 10 year visa they're stepping up info collection at the border. Full sets of fingerprints and pictures. if you even look remotely chinese they want chinese names and proof of that via other official documents. Had to show a HKID. Fingerprint verification upon entry every time after.
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Originally Posted by lsquare
(Post 29957217)
And what if you don't know any Chinese? How do you answer that?
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So it has been more than 3 years since I got a visa ( just before they went to 10 year visas). Previously I would go to DC or NYC and submit my application and expedite it. The last time they had moved to eliminate same day service and I got the visa the next day. Is there now a consistent restriction on getting a visa at a location different from your assigned area? I often travel to DC and NYC and find it convenient to get the visa there rather than IAH. Any body of knowledge regarding expedited processing at a location other than the one they would assign you based on your home address?
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Originally Posted by jiejie
(Post 29918079)
I think you're going to find the same story everywhere. If you want the X2 visa, I don't know what you can really do except go to the University in person and get the JW202, then exit China and apply. This is going to be disruptive to your current plans and cost some extra cash. The most reliable way is to apply for a Chinese L tourist visa which will enable you to at least get to Kunming and park yourself near the University until they cough up the JW202 and you take physical custody of it. Or, just figure out how to do this course with at least one border-run break in the middle, and get a multiple entry tourist visa right off the bat. Likely you'd be able to do the course without any official authority catching on (or caring).
Note: Recent anecdote from Bangkok suggests that they might now be friendlier to non-resident foreigners seeking Chinese visas without hassles. So you might check into that as well--they are using the China Visa Service Application Centre there now. Doesn't solve the missing JW202 problem though. I am happy to report that I at long last have the visa. In the end, the consulate did ask for the JW202, the admission notice + accompanying documents (official licences?), proof of payment made (tuition + accommodation), and flight tickets into and out of China. This was in addition to a brief interview by a consular officer about my work, Keats School, and reasons for visiting. As a reminder/data point, even hanging on the consulate wall above the table where one fills out the application, the X2 only nominally requires the admission notice and a photocopy. I sent the above experience to the school as a data point for the future. |
But which consulate gave you the visa?
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Originally Posted by 889
(Post 29986209)
But which consulate gave you the visa?
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Originally Posted by xooz
(Post 29982517)
Any body of knowledge regarding expedited processing at a location other than the one they would assign you based on your home address?
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I'm from India. I will be on business travel(my company sponsor) to Beijing for 10 days and I have valid Single Entry Business visa. During my onward journey to Beijing from India and return from Beijing, I am planning to visit Singapore for couple of days(my personal visit to meet my cousin and I have valid Singapore Multiple Entry tourist visa).
Is there any restrictions during Beijing Port of entry like I should travel from the Country where I have been issued Chinese Visa. Note: I have travelled to Singapore and China before. |
Originally Posted by Sakthi Vel
(Post 30081154)
I'm from India. I will be on business travel(my company sponsor) to Beijing for 10 days and I have valid Single Entry Business visa. During my onward journey to Beijing from India and return from Beijing, I am planning to visit Singapore for couple of days(my personal visit to meet my cousin and I have valid Singapore Multiple Entry tourist visa).
Is there any restrictions during Beijing Port of entry like I should travel from the Country where I have been issued Chinese Visa. Note: I have travelled to Singapore and China before. |
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