Hello all,
I'm looking for some help with my china visa. I'm a traveller who will be passing through China and Kunming over the next while. I will be arriving august 10th on a tourist visa. I plan to stay for 5 months. Is it possible to do the following;
tourist visa 30 days
extension 30 days
student visa 90 days
Techincally this should be possible. I have a course lined up for the education visa, how many hours a week are mandatory to get the visa?
Has anyone got a visa extension recently? has anyone got an education visa recently? is it very difficult? i've had warnings saying the officials don't give visa extensions?
Hummmm... why not just apply for a 6 month tourist visa? Who cares if you use some of that time to study? I think 180 days is the max you can apply for as tourist, so you are covered plenty. What your use your tourist time with is not important.
10 classes a week is mandatory to obtain a tourist visa .
Uhm, I don't think it is possible to apply for a 180 days tourist visa.
Anyway, I am in Vietnam at the moment and unfortunately yesterday I have put my application in for 30 days tourist visa. I didn't know I could have asked for more days!
10 classes a week is mandatory to obtain a student visa for 3 months? What about the 6 months student visa?
well, here's what happened when we went to the consulate in Ho Chi Minh. They refused my tourist visa for 30 days without an explanation. They just said 'we've been told to refuse.' Sounded like passing the buck to me. So infuriating!!!
One lady started explaining why we were refused when another official interupted our confab with a blunt retort, 'It's refused. No reason. Refused.' The first lady was starting to explain that we didn't have a hotel address, functioning contact phone number (we gave our home cell numbers) and return flight out of China. After the interuption she apologetically said 'Sorry, I dont know why refused.'
So now we're going to have to try other means. Paying nearly $800 for 2 flights to Hong Kong and try to apply at the immigration office there. But will that even work. I heard Hong Kong follows the rules of common sense.
I'm tearing my hair out especially at their pig-headedness.
chinese visa refused in ho chi minh city.
did you get a official visa application fee receipt from the staff?
if you didnt, that is the reason.
Yes, I did.
I had it in my hand with the money to pay for the visa.
They took the ticket out of my end and told me 'refused'.
At this stage I would just like to know if I would be able to get a tourist visa in Hong Kong, if it is easy or not.
Has anybody else done this?
what's your nationality? there are reports that china
embassy/consulate in vietnam are refusing all visas
for french citizens.
oh, you had the receipt and they took it before telling you the "bad news"? now, you didnt have it, right?
my friend had the same encounter last year. she thought the receipt did not look real official. anyway, she ended up getting one in hanoi without any problem instead.
yes, you can get a 30 day stay tourist visa in hong kong from the China Travel Service (hong kong) Limited, very straighforward there. yet, if you are an american, Brits...... you have to pay higher fee tho. :-(
oh, if you an also take a ferry ride to macau from hong kong, ther you can get one for HKD$400 same day or 285 if you wait 2 days while you are having fun in macau. :-) of cos, it costs more if you count the ferry trip and hotel bill.
