[Mat]

Originally Posted by KnowItAll

In all due fairness (and this thread is no longer about being fair), put your self in the shoes of a mainlander trying to get a multiple entry Visa to the US.

Amen to that !

[juergenw]

1st - surely it is most probably same disgusting procedure to apply for an US visa - not only for chinese - I was treated already at NY immigration like some kind of "alien" or even more worse.
2nd - but sitting behind a counter (in HK , NY or where ever in the whole world) makes some people sometimes feel a little bit "overconfident" about how they can approach to the person standing in "front" of the counter - you know what I mean ?

In the case described in my comment before I was made feeling like a "beggar" in front of this lady for something which was very normal the last 10 years - probably this is also some little different to the USA.

[ontheroad]

Once, I'd been living in the US for 3 years, this was after 9/11, I was coming back from summer holidays with my kids, and after a 2 hour queue, the immigration officer at JFK refused to let me in because my visa was not under the same name as my passport. Although I'd gotten in no problem dozens of times before. There sticklers-for-rules-to-the-bloody-letter at immigration offices all over the world. The US was the worse.

[sabi]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

Once, I'd been living in the US for 3 years, this was after 9/11, I was coming back from summer holidays with my kids, and after a 2 hour queue, the immigration officer at JFK refused to let me in because my visa was not under the same name as my passport. Although I'd gotten in no problem dozens of times before. There sticklers-for-rules-to-the-bloody-letter at immigration offices all over the world. The US was the worse.

If they were such sticklers, there wouldn't have been a difference in the visa and passport names in the first place and the loopholes aiding the perprtrators of 9/11 would not have been there.

[mengfei]

...a friend of mine who hired a guy from France was questioned about his multiple Visa which he got from HK, they told him he can never get a multiple Visa in HK but instead he have to go back to France to apply for a multiple Visa.

their idea was to Bring him to China then process his Working Z visa there but F or tourist visa was already questioned.

[philippe]

I am also among those stuck in HK with an expired 3 year Multiple entry visa to China.

Interesting that so far nobody mentioned in this thread that (IIRC) this new rule is in violation of the C.E.P.A. agreement (between HK and the PRC).

I discussed that w some people in the same situation and we figured that probably the best thing to do at this point is to complain to our respective Trade Commissioner(s) and Consul(s) as we believe that only significant pressure from multiple foreign governments could be effective.

[ontheroad]

Someone gave me a red dot over what I posted earlier telling me "disagree, clearly your fault".

When I moved to the US for my husband's work, I sent in my passport to the US consulate to get my 3 year-visa. My passport, like many women's, has my maiden name and my married name.
The Americans only put my married name on the visa because I was applying as my husband's dependant.
Usually, I never had a problem going through customs, it was just that once, that the customs official decided that since both names were on my passport, but only one on my visa, he had a problem with it.
I was lucky, because of my kids that started crying, I got to go through. And it never happened again. When I had to renew my visa, I made sure they put both names on it!

The amount of times I've gotten ridiculous red dot comments like "factually inaccurate, it's RHKYC and not HKYC" etc.... it's absurd and disheartening.

[Sleuth]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

The amount of times I've gotten ridiculous red dot comments like "factually inaccurate, it's RHKYC and not HKYC" etc.... it's absurd and disheartening.

I think you will find more than a handful of agree with that statement. Although I favor "absurd" rather than "disheartening".
I guess it is so much easier to drop a red card and run, rather than put your point out for discussion, that a certain element takes the easy way out.

[MovingIn07]

what is a red card?

[BenderLives]

so can anyone advise if the "letter from China Commerce or some other central government office" is required...and if so, how did you obtain this?

right now i just have a letter from my factory in china.