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Q: Visa for NY?
As a Brit, I don't need a visa for America. I just go online and do the visa waiver thing.
But My wife is Chinese And she wants to go to New York.
Does anyone have any tips on how to get her a visa?
Scots, you might try any other country. There's queue of 300 people in Beijing every day. You better bring portable lunch and kegs, before you'll step into that queue.
Or you even better off if you wait, maybe
some posters here know how to take short-cut. US Embassy is very popular in China.
You could also search for 'SAF
....wait, I mean 'US Embassy'. There are few recent threads with some detailed info.
ScotsAlan:
I don't need a visa Icniff. I just need advice on how to get my Chinese wife one.
Surely someone knows how to get one for her.
icnif77:
Sorry mate, I thought you were pulling leg. I guess, your best bet is US Embassy, if nobody here won't advice you.
I think, most posters will think you're joking with your Q. I was! Write on your thread 'I'm serious! I need advice!'
We have many threads on 'Chinese to get US visa' recently.
Scots, you might try any other country. There's queue of 300 people in Beijing every day. You better bring portable lunch and kegs, before you'll step into that queue.
Or you even better off if you wait, maybe some posters here know how to take short-cut. US Embassy is very popular in China.
You could also search for 'SAF....wait, I mean 'US Embassy'. There are few recent threads with some detailed info.
ScotsAlan:
I don't need a visa Icniff. I just need advice on how to get my Chinese wife one.
Surely someone knows how to get one for her.
icnif77:
Sorry mate, I thought you were pulling leg. I guess, your best bet is US Embassy, if nobody here won't advice you.
I think, most posters will think you're joking with your Q. I was! Write on your thread 'I'm serious! I need advice!'
We have many threads on 'Chinese to get US visa' recently.
Yahoo-gle:
http://www.ehow.com/list_6361610_requirements-tourist-visa-china-usa.html
Fees, visa form and things for US tourist visa for Chinese.
Shouldn't be that hard. The keys to passing the interview are proving that she is not going to stow away in 'Merica and disappear off the grid, sucking away at the land of milk and honey.
So to put it a bit more seriously, she's already married so that clears up a major hurdle.
Usually people are advised to procure a certain array of materials - say banking statements (of overall deposit, as well as transaction records) which date back at least 3 months. If any property is owned (esp cars or a house) then proof of that ownership is very useful. I can't remember if she needs something like a Hu Kou or not. Anyway, make sure the proof of marriage is iron clad, because that's definitely important. If she hasn't ever traveled before to other countries... then that makes it even more important. She will be suspected of running off to America if she can't show something dependable like that. It's mostly comes down to how you can prove that she's just leaving for a bit and coming back.
One more thing - all the materials they suggest you to take to the interview - well, the officer in Shanghai didn't request for even one of them to be shown to him during the time we went to go do it.
ScotsAlan:
It sounds similar to getting a UK tourist visa Jetfire.
Just been to the UK visa office today for my wife to get a new UK visa. They need my bank statements, her bank statement, house deeds, employment contract, invite letter from UK, even photos of my sisters house where she will be staying.
It has taken her the best part of a month to get all the stuff together. And she had to do all of the same for our daughter.
Then today it was retina scans and fingerprints. Even quizzing our 3 year old who her mummy and daddy was, and of course, her being 3 years old, she did not co-operate.
The biggest was proof that she has to come back to China. It's a lot of work. And that's just for a tourist visa.
ScotsAlan:
Oh, the UK wants 6 months of bank statements. You need to be able to show a regular income and not a big lump of cash deposited the week before.
"Sorry mate, I thought you were pulling leg. "
Me too, based on someone else wanting to go to NYC...
icnif77:
Now I'm sure, Scots wanted to know everything about Coney Island.
ScotsAlan:
Ha ha. To be honest, I had a look at the visa website but did not go into the online form filling bit. The wife has applied for a UK visa a few times and that is really involved. Piles and piles of paperwork and evidence of various things. I just wondered if it was the same for a tourist visa to the states. I assume it is similar. I was thinking about maybe taking the wife to NY around new year time. I have always fancied doing a quick round the world. Here to US west, US east, London, then home to here.
BHGAL:
a little thing I noticed in your comment Scots Alan....... around the world is something I would not mind doing..... I have investigated numerous ways to do this....... not gonna happen in the near future, but I would love to do it some day...... just a couple weeks in airports mostly, but a few good pit stops would be great!!!
call me ...hahahhahaahah ... next year maybe
ambivalentmace:
a british citizen getting your wife to america, it would be easier to get her in canada and then get a visa to cross into the us while you are physically in canada,
the university of virginia has a cruise ship that does a trip around the world with 25 countries port of call, 100 days at sea with college classes on the boat, the semester at sea program has been around for awhile, and teachers can apply for jobs on the boat as well,
i did it 30 years ago when it was run by the university of pittsburg, great way to see the world.
Maybe the country does not have enough women to match with the men there.
USA needs the money from tourism, so you pretty much just have to be carbon based and have a heartbeat.
Strawberry66:
Hahahaha...I actually have a question about if the US can make lots from Chinese tourists?
Is your wife Vicky? Poor you.
xunliang:
Good point.
Although maybe someone from a poor developing country who really wants a Chinese green card will be willing to put up with her shit. Then again she's racist and only likes white guys so.....
Canadians have a treaty with the U.S. that citizens from both countries can cross the border and stay within that country for up to six months.
You do need a valid passport and before 9-11... you didn't even need that. You just needed some form of identification.
Visa waiver approved countries (32 countries) can stay up to 90 days.
The rest need to apply for a tourist visa or otherwise.
I know cause I just looked in to it as a client of mine wants me to come to L.A. for three months and work with him in-house.
ScotsAlan:
Europe has similar Rob. Visa waiver. But post 9_11 we need to register online before travel.
