US Eases Visa Process for Chinese

[Gloria]

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US Eases Visa Process for Chinese
2005-12-30 13:07:42 CRIENGLISH.com

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The United States Government is making efforts to improve visa processing in China in order to attract more Chinese visa applicants, according to a press release by the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou on Thursday.

The U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou is working with the American Chamber of Commerce for a business traveler program, which will provide some South China companies, mostly from Guangdong, more convenient visa application procedures.

In the next three months, executives of these companies will receive expedited interview appointments and other services to ease the preparation for business travel in the United States.

The consulate is also working with trade promotion agencies to help explain how smaller businesses can receive visas for the Untied States to attend trade shows and exhibitions.

As for student visas, the U.S. Government has extended the visa validity for Chinese students from six months to one year starting last July. It has also recommended increasing the validity to four years, and the Chinese Government is considering the request.

"We want to see greater numbers of Chinese come to apply for visas ¨C we are open for business," said William S. Laidlaw, deputy manager of the consular section and manager of the non immigration visa unit with the Guangzhou consulate.

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1. Making America accessible to Chinese Communists everywhere. n/t

[calico1]

2. Well, the Chinese have got us by the balls

with all the money we owe them. I am not surprised.

[cosmicdot]

3. "working with the American Chamber of Commerce"

would that be Uncle Prescott Bu$h? http://www.usccc.org/newhome/overview10.asp

retired-in-name-only?


His Excellency, Premier Zhu Rongji and Prescott Bush, Chairman (retired) of US-China Chamber of Commerce


President George Bush, Siva Yam, President of Us-China Chamber of Commerce and Prescott Bush, Chairman

During the embargo on China, his company was the only US firm allowed to do business there, exporting communications satellites.

02/18/2002 - Updated 10:33 PM ET

President's uncle shares Bush family ties to China

By Debbie Howlett, USA TODAY

CHICAGO — When President Bush arrives in Beijing on Thursday, he'll embrace a policy that's something of a family tradition.

Bush's approach centers on promoting U.S.-China economic ties. That's a course favored not only by his father, the first President Bush, but also by his uncle, Prescott Bush Jr., a longtime acquaintance of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. ~snip~



~no Visas for the bird flu, please~