Visa Application at China Embassy
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Left home early to process my visa application at Embassy of China in the morning. Though the office opens at 0900, I reckon that there will be quite a queue before the opening hour. And I was right, I arrived at 0830 and there was about ~30 people in front of me. When the gate opened, everyone just rushed forward and it was quite haphazardous. So much for the queue...
The queue line wasn't that defined during the initial formation. When a young lady standing beside me tried to get into the line, she was told off by another lady behind the queue saying that the latter was trying to cut queue. I really don't know whether she was trying to cut queue since everyone was cramped into a lump at that moment. In fact, I could have been the one that is being wrongly accused of cutting queue since I was standing slightly out of the line.
Anyway, the entire process was quite fast. The visa-application queue number starts from 300 and I was 319; there's a separate queue for passport collection. Left the Embassy at 0930.
Just to make the story complete, I need a visa since I will be in China for more than 14 days. I will be away for Sino-Singapore Exchange Programme from 14-29 May; following that I will be traveling with Cheryl and Nikki till 12 June. During the Exchange, I will be going to Kunming, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Hangzhou. And for the independent traveling leg, I will be going to Huangshan, Suzhou, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
posted byWilliam at 10:40 AM