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China Is Making Visas Interesting.

Visas have always bored me. Sorry about that, but they have. A law school education is rarely needed to figure out visa issues and I did not go to law school for that. I have always taken a rather perverse pride in not keeping up on visa requirements.... ...full story at China Law Blog

from China Law Blog on Wed, Apr 16 2008

see also:

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15 May 08 visit China's F-Visas -- Put A Fork In Those Babies  »  China Law Blog The Wall Street Journals' China Blog just did a post on China's current visa situation, entitled, "Visa Saga." The gist of it is that securing F-visas and tourist visas has gotten much more difficult and that multiple entry visas are becoming nearly...
01 May 08 visit China Visa Update  »  One Eyed Panda This week I attended an AmCham seminar on the new regulations for Chinese visas. I thought I’d share my notes with everyone so that you can all be informed about the new rules: There are no changes to the Z (work) visa procedure. These visas are...
01 Jul 08 visit The Other Ethnic Tension  »  Opposite End of China Not much time to write, as I'm off to the U.S. tomorrow for a visa run. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll finally be getting a working (Z) visa after three years of scrounging around for business (F) visas. I might have been able to get the new...
19 Jul 07 visit Visa applications and extensions just got a little more difficult  »  Granite Studio Since many researchers are here on some cobbled-together amalgam of dodgy Z visas, F visas, and/or multiple extensions of an L visa...the pre-Olympic "harmonization" of the foreign community may have implications for research plans in the PRC beginning...
03 May 08 visit China Visa Update  »  China Law Blog The One Eyed Panda attended AmCham's very recent seminar on China visas and he left with a whole slew of good notes. So if you are wondering about the latest regarding China visas, I urge you to go his post, China Visa Update as it is very helpful....

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