China Applicants Thread

[toby]

congrats green eye bunny.

We just got an interview request for Nov 2, so we've got a trip to beijing coming up, and hopefully we come back with a visa in hand.

Why does Beijing request your passport if they're going to call an interview? Beijing won't start the process of issuing a PR visa before a decision is made -- i.e. at the interview. So holding the passport before then doesn't save any time, and the PR Applicant might need the passport before then.

This is more serious in other embassies, that take much longer than Beijing. Nevertheless, asking for the Applicant's passport before a decision means the applicant is without the passport for weeks, or even months, and this seems inconsiderate on the embassy's part.

Does anyone understand why the embassy asks for the passport so early?

 

[che.the.spy]

greeneyebunny - thanks, of course we will let you know what happens at the interview. Maybe I will bring my audio recorder in my pocket and after we can give an exact transcript Like a spy.

Toby - I think it's because they're inconsiderate, don't care so much about the applicants needs, and think they are the kings of the world because they have a job in the embassy. But who knows?!?

 

[Greeneyebunny]

greeneyebunny - thanks, of course we will let you know what happens at the interview. Maybe I will bring my audio recorder in my pocket and after we can give an exact transcript Like a spy.

Toby - I think it's because they're inconsiderate, don't care so much about the applicants needs, and think they are the kings of the world because they have a job in the embassy. But who knows?!?

i think you ll come back with the visa for sure. what i believe is they ve already made the decision before they requested the passport. maybe your picture attracted some officer , they just want to see you ! r you r a movie star or something?

 

[che.the.spy]

no, I think they suspect me of being a russian living under the guise of a canadian citizen, I read in the news recently that they found several russians traveling under passports of canadians whose deaths had been covered up. I do have a bit of an unusual accent for a Canadian born citizen. lol

If you're right we'll have to see whether the VO was interested in having me or my husband come to visit.

 

[toby]

no, I think they suspect me of being a russian living under the guise of a canadian citizen, I read in the news recently that they found several russians traveling under passports of canadians whose deaths had been covered up. I do have a bit of an unusual accent for a Canadian born citizen. lol

If you're right we'll have to see whether the VO was interested in having me or my husband come to visit.

If your accent is funny to others, you must really be Canadian!!

How did the Russians who took dead Canadians' passports change the photos?

 

[che.the.spy]

well, I think they would have stolen or bought the whole identity of pretty young people, then applied for new passports as adults so any photos that had been connected to the identity would be from a young enough age that no one would think twice about the differences in appearance.

 

[toby]

well, I think they would have stolen or bought the whole identity of pretty young people, then applied for new passports as adults so any photos that had been connected to the identity would be from a young enough age that no one would think twice about the differences in appearance.

Ah HA!!!!!!! So you do know about such things!!!! You must really be a spy, then. Ah ha!!!!!!!

 

[che.the.spy]

I find the best way to convince people you're not a spy is to run around blatantly telling them you're a spy. Who said I wasn't?!?

 

[Zagalo]

Hey Guys, i do join this thread today , i just sent my wife's application to Mississauga and it will be delivered this monday when hopefully the sponsorship application will be accepted , her application will be transfered to Beijing.
my wife and i are both Cameroonian citizens i got my PR visa in 2010 through Beijing too , pretty fast there huh , my wife is in china as a student on a full one year visa, so now i just hope things will go fassssssssssst when her application gets to Beijing and i am happy to see people here who got passport request just a month after their application reached Beijing! Awsome! i really hope this will be the case with my wife ! i have included every single doc they asked so fingers crossed! and have a great day Guys!

 

[che.the.spy]

Good luck Zagalo!!! It should go pretty fast once you get past CPCM.

My husband and I are leaving for Beijing today and having our interview tomorrow morning - hoping we return with a visa in hand!!

 

[Zagalo]

Good luck then ! and hopefully you will come with the visa! but how come you live in China with your husband? is he a Canadian citizen?
Good luck!

 

[che.the.spy]

Yep, we got his visa the same day!!!

Actually, I'm the Canadian citizen and he's my husband. Neither of us is Chinese, but I've got a one year contract teaching English here and he's a dependent on my visa.

The interview was not too bad, they just asked him some questions with me out of the room, then asked me questions with him out of the room to confirm. They were saying we'd need to get a criminal record check done in China, until I notified them that we officially have been living here less than 6 months (9 days less) so they agreed to waive that requirement and just give us the visa.

HAPPY!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

 

[toby]

Yep, we got his visa the same day!!!

Actually, I'm the Canadian citizen and he's my husband. Neither of us is Chinese, but I've got a one year contract teaching English here and he's a dependent on my visa.

The interview was not too bad, they just asked him some questions with me out of the room, then asked me questions with him out of the room to confirm. They were saying we'd need to get a criminal record check done in China, until I notified them that we officially have been living here less than 6 months (9 days less) so they agreed to waive that requirement and just give us the visa.

HAPPY!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

No one mentioned a criminal record check to me, even though I had been residing in China for almost two years when the interviewed occurred. My wife, the Chinese applicant, had of course submitted her police check with the initial application.

Is asking for a criminal record from the sponsor done often?

 

[fast]

No one mentioned a criminal record check to me, even though I had been residing in China for almost two years when the interviewed occurred. My wife, the Chinese applicant, had of course submitted her police check with the initial application.

Is asking for a criminal record from the sponsor done often?

she talking about criminal record check for her husband guy!
Not for her(sponsor)

 

[toby]

In all this talk about time lines for the Beijing embassy, I hope you all feel incredibly lucky to be going through Beijing, and not Hong Kong. My wife's process took from November 2009, when Hong Kong got her application, to early April 2011 (interview) and finally early July 2011 (passport received in the mail).