[prettynvain]

just came back yesterday from shenzhen. i got my short-term visa (5days stay in shenzhen) at Lo Wu visa issuing office.

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Originally Posted by prettynvain

just came back yesterday from shenzhen. i got my short-term visa (5days stay in shenzhen) at Lo Wu visa issuing office.

What nationality are you?

Cheers!

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Originally Posted by Boris

So - the question I would ask you is -- as we have all known about the problems for a while now why did no one in the company care to inform them to get visa before they left.

Also " flew in for a meeting earlier this week " -- why haven't you got them their visa on arrival. Its a next day service if you pay for it and they are not on the " banned " list.

This problem looks entirely of the companies own making. My guess is the managers will rightly be angry at you.

I was not the one who arrange for the trip.Just our secretary who arrange the trips did not aware of this issue.

Some managers always like to come to HK finished their job only they decide whether they go to China office or not so they did not plan ahead.

My visa will expire in end august and hope the chinese government "wake up" by that time.

[mombasa]

Went to Shenzhen on Sunday (got back yday) with my pinoy gf. Neither of us had a problem with the 5 day visa into China. I'm HK resident (UK passport)

ie, no problems getting short term visa into China via Lo Wu.

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An australian friend of mine re-entered HK today with his China multiple-entry (one-year) visa and they revoked his visa, turning it into a single-entry (which they said he already used going in). Really scary.

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Originally Posted by namaste

An australian friend of mine re-entered HK today with his China multiple-entry (one-year) visa and they revoked his visa, turning it into a single-entry (which they said he already used going in). Really scary.

Erm...

"Re-entered HK [...] with his China multiple-entry visa"?

This is quite scary... could you let us know exactly which direction your friend was going, who changed the visa, if there was any justification or reason given, etc. Changing an already-issued and -paid-for visa arbitrarily is a bit mad...

[prettynvain]

Originally Posted by pin

What nationality are you?

Cheers!

im a filipina.

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Another SCMP article today:

Foreign Office asks Beijing to clarify changes to visa rules
Albert Wong
Apr 23, 2008


Concerns about newly imposed restrictions on visas for travel to the mainland have been taken up at the diplomatic level, Britain's top representative in Hong Kong said yesterday. But so far, China had provided no answers, said Andrew Seaton.

Exasperation has been growing among foreign businesspeople and chambers of commerce at the restrictions and at the dearth of official information about them.

The British consul general, who said fostering business ties was one of his priorities, revealed that the Foreign Office had taken up the matter with mainland authorities.

"The British chamber, I know, has been very concerned about the real impact it has on the ability of their membership to pursue business in China ... We have also taken up the matter with Chinese authorities in Hong Kong, Beijing and indeed in London, to try to get as much clarification as we can on quite what the changes are," he said.

Business chambers have received hundreds of complaints about what appears to be a tightening of visa regulations in the lead-up to the Olympics. Businessmen who need to make frequent trips to the mainland have been the worst affected.

Travel agents have said they were notified on March 27 that no new multiple-entry visas would be issued until October. On April 1, when the Commissioner's Officer of the Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong took over issuing all visas, immigration officers at the border stopped issuing short-stay visas for Shenzhen.

Last week, the office confirmed that visa applicants must present return tickets and a hotel voucher to secure a tourist visa; business travellers need a "visa notification form".

Beijing denies there has been any change in visa policy. Travel agents link the changes to the Olympics.

Mr Seaton also said there would be no change in Britain's commitment to monitoring political development in Hong Kong, in keeping with the responsibilities arising from the Joint Declaration which preceded the 1997 handover to Chinese rule.

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Originally Posted by pin

Another SCMP article today:
...immigration officers at the border stopped issuing short-stay visas for Shenzhen....

Well, how can I believe the rest as the quoted above is definfitely not true.

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Originally Posted by mombasa

Went to Shenzhen on Sunday (got back yday) with my pinoy gf. Neither of us had a problem with the 5 day visa into China. I'm HK resident (UK passport)

ie, no problems getting short term visa into China via Lo Wu.

Going a bit off topic, are you actually from Mombasa?