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David5o:
PAUL,
When i was talking about Tourist and Business visa's, i was talking about foreign visa's ...not Chinese Visas.... ie, Getting your lady a tourist/visit visa to visit the States, UK, Aussie and so forth, and same goes for Business visa's, but it does help if the lady has some form of business, anything even a shop will do!!
Not so easy i think, if you try doing that on your own!!!......
And YES, they can and do organise spouse entry visa's to your country, and it doesn't take 12 months either. Find a good experienced Fixer, and there is not much these guys can't circumvent within China.
There not that expensive either, my fees for Lucy's visa was around 700 to 800 RMB and from start to finish took way less than a month..... That was just over 2 years ago, so the costs may have gone up, but even a 1000/1500 RMB would not be expensive in my book!!
David......
David5o:
Mike,
Point one, ... That's correct, Paul's wife lost her state pension the moment she married Paul!!
Point two, ... I didn't say anything about back dating anything Mike. Your first job is to find that ''Good Fixer'' and he will tell you what you need and roughly how long it will take.
I would suggest that those living in China at the present, try to make contact with foreigners that are working for an overseas company, and via those contacts get the name of there company fixer. Try to find out if the guy they have is a good one, as the better they are the more contacts/influence they will have and be quicker and more reliable....
Oh, and Mike, nothing much in the way of officialdom is insurmountable in China. Where there are Chinese in the loop, it can be sorted !!! ....
David.....
David5o:
Mike,
I really don't know how or what these guys do to get the Visa's. I know personally of a colleague that got his spouse visa for New Zealand in a little over 2.5 months, they had been married at the time about 4 or 5 months. They actually received the visa while they were still in China.
As i said , first job is to find a ''GOOD Fixer, and let him tell you what he can and can't achieve and what he needs from you to process a Spouse visa for Canada.....
David.....
David5o:
Vince ...
You can think what you like ....they are very REAL!!! No they don't just get visa's for women... They cut through official red tape and the reams of bureaucracy that is so abundant in China. They deal with the Ministry's, the local Authorities / administrators, the Police, Customs and any other quango authority in place. Without these guy's there would be no foreign companies operating in China. Which is why every overseas company has at least one of these guys on staff, and often more than one...
Your thinking too much along the lines of America or other western countries, it just ain't like that in Asia (or in many other parts of the world). In Asia they only go through the motions of having similar western rules and regulations etc. Even in the Middle East, the overseas companies employ these Fixers, or believe me, absolutly nothing would ever get done, just as it is in China....
David....
RobertBfrom aust:
Mike , just 1 thing , think outside the square , the paperwork is filled out in China not in Canada , in all outposts most of the workers are natives of that country , not as in this case Canadians , that is where the fixers have the important input , better to have your paperwork on top of the pile and not at the bottom , not forgetting that Canada is one of the major ," I want to go live there " places , and I would these days hate to think how many relatives of Chinese / Canadians are also using this way to move across the ocean , regards Ying and Robert .
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