de facto confiscation
regrettably, we have relinquished our passports to the chinese. and there is a hint of fiasco in the air. multiple times in the past couple weeks i've tried contacting the chinese embassy to no avail. emails go unanswered. phone calls are returned, but every answer provokes new questions. we've hired a chinese travel agent to act as liaison, but apparently her communiqués go unanswered as well. now there is a dispute over the amount owed in order to issue our visas. the embassy's website provides misinformation regarding the fees. and perhaps our liaison didn't send all the money we provided with our visa applications. we've mailed more money to the embassy, but now it turns out the amount requested from us and the amount requested from our liaison are different. there are too many cats in the tearoom.
meanwhile, in a bizarre coincidence indeed, kryptonite has been discovered in a serbian mine.
posted by tyson on
Friday, April 27, 2007
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If you find yourself in a tea room, seek the crumpets and lemons; cats cannot be herded by anyone...but by reputation...will eat remains. : ) egroeg
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Anonymous, at 22:52
hi guys,
i am going to china in june and had no problem getting my visa. i went through a travel agent in toronto, and they only had my passport for about a week. it cost $95 (Canadian dollars). how much were they trying to charge you? the problem seems to be that you can't go directly through the embassy yourself - you need to go through the travel agency, and if they don't know what you're doing it can be a problem. but keep trying. you should be able to get your passport back. did it go to th eembassy in wellington? that would suck if you had to go there, but you might have to go there. let me know if it works out and when you plan to be in china.
jamey
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Anonymous, at 18:35
we are planning to be there in june as well! i'll email you to discuss futher. crazy!!
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della, at 21:19
we received our visas. hooray.
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tyson, at 01:08
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