One year multi entry Visa: LA Consulate grants readily.
Apr 18, 2009 | 2:47 pm
#16
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Which Consulates give 2 year multiple with a letter?
Write an invitation letter to yourself. If you really want to knock their socks off, email your letter to a company in China, have them print on letter head and chop, then fax or mail it back to you. FWIW, in case you missed my January post on this topic, the DC consulate girl actually encouraged me to go to Kinko's (a block away) and crank out an invitation letter.
Apr 28, 2009 | 2:53 am
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I've never had a problem getting a one-year F visa at the LA consulate. Same day is pretty easy too. I always go around late morning after the lines have worked their way down to nothing. Go have a nice Mexican lunch nearby, then pick up my visa afterward. Couldn't be easier.
Apr 28, 2009 | 3:04 am
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anyone know if there has been any change recently in the granting of 1 yr. multi entry L visas? Word in China is that visa policy is tightening down in preparation for the 60 yr celebrations in October. Supposedly can not get an F visa past Sept. 15.
Apr 28, 2009 | 2:56 pm
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Apr 28, 2009 | 8:29 pm
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Apr 28, 2009 | 11:31 pm
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China is pretty much over now.
The meet and greet game is long past.
If you don't already have established relationships...don't waste your time.
Just email..and a few phone calls. No need to show your face.
The meet and greet game is long past.
If you don't already have established relationships...don't waste your time.
Just email..and a few phone calls. No need to show your face.
Apr 29, 2009 | 12:40 am
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I once bought a "house" at a DC tax auction (as the henchman of a group of investors who just wanted to walk away with something), only to subsequently discover that there wasn't any sort of house on the said piece of land.
(There is a lesson here that applies to China.)
(There is a lesson here that applies to China.)
May 7, 2009 | 12:54 pm
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I'm looking at a Chinese visa application right now. Do I need to submit any proof of my itn when submitting the application? Will including itns showing multiple entries into China increase my chance of getting a multi-entry Visa? As a UA 1k, I can book/change/cancel multiple awards into China for no extra fee.
May 7, 2009 | 1:05 pm
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I'm looking at a Chinese visa application right now. Do I need to submit any proof of my itn when submitting the application? Will including itns showing multiple entries into China increase my chance of getting a multi-entry Visa? As a UA 1k, I can book/change/cancel multiple awards into China for no extra fee.
May 7, 2009 | 1:24 pm
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I'm looking at a Chinese visa application right now. Do I need to submit any proof of my itn when submitting the application? Will including itns showing multiple entries into China increase my chance of getting a multi-entry Visa? As a UA 1k, I can book/change/cancel multiple awards into China for no extra fee.
May 21, 2009 | 10:35 pm
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Received a 1 year multi-entry 90 day duration visa last week from the Chicago office. Didn't ask, they completed the box for me - I had left it blank meaning to ask.
May 22, 2009 | 6:31 am
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I just tried today at the Chinese Embassy in Prague and was told an L visa for 12 months, multi-entry was not possible without an invitation. The best they could do was 6mo, double entry. This is on a US passport with a Czech Residency Permit.
May 22, 2009 | 5:30 pm
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Was this for your first Chinese visa? If so I have a feeling that is pretty much standard. Multi entry comes after you already have one of these double entry.