The visa for Chinese citizens to visit the United States is expected to be relaxed to multiple times of five years

The visa for Chinese citizens to visit the United States is expected to be relaxed to multiple times for five years. On the 28th, U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke visited the new US Consulate General in Guangzhou for the first time and inspected the new building of the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou...

The visa for Chinese citizens to visit the United States is expected to be relaxed to multiple times of five years On the 28th, U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke visited the new U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou for the first time and presented 80 copies of the memoirs of former U.S. Consul General in Guangzhou Richard Williams to the Guangzhou Library. Photo by Nandu reporter Tan Qingju “Our next step is to provide multi-year, multiple-entry visas for Chinese citizens. The current visas are multiple-entry visas per year. We hope to provide Chinese businessmen, students and tourists with valid multiple-entry visas for five years.” US Ambassador to China Gary Locke visited the new US Consulate General in Guangdong for the first time on the 28th. He said that reducing visa waiting times and improving the visa process has been one of his important goals since taking office in 2011. "I took office as the (U.S.) ambassador to China in August 2011. One of my important goals in my work is to reduce the visa waiting time," Locke said. "Within one and a half months after I took office as the ambassador, the visa waiting time has been reduced to 5 days." He said, "The current visa is for multiple entries per year. We hope to grant valid multiple entry visas for five years to Chinese businessmen, students and tourists." Li Peijie, head of U.S. service consulting at Kai Tak Education Guangzhou Company, said that currently, mainland Chinese students applying for student visas to the United States adopt a multiple-entry-a-year policy. Once the U.S. embassy and consulates in China also implement the five-year multiple-entry policy for mainland Chinese students, the visa procedures for Chinese students studying in the United States will be simplified. International students going to the United States will be able to apply for a visa once and make multiple trips within 5 years, so they no longer need to worry about getting a new visa for a short-term stay in China after the previous visa expires. Locke also said that according to the current visa process for the United States, when the applicant's visa is approved, he usually goes to the nearest CITIC Bank to collect the visa. In the future, the U.S. Embassy is considering sending visas directly to applicants’ homes. The U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou covers the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Hainan. It handles the largest number of non-immigrant visa services among all U.S. consulates abroad. Highlights: The purpose of "returning" to Guangzhou was to eat authentic sesame paste. On the 28th, Locke also attended the book donation ceremony to the Guangzhou Library at the US Consulate in Guangzhou. The donated books are 80 memoirs of Richard Williams, the first U.S. Consul General in Guangzhou after the United States and China resumed normal diplomatic relations. "The Guangzhou Library is very beautiful. I will find time to go in and take a look next time." Locke did not forget to praise the "neighbors" of the new consulate at the event. That day was Locke's second visit to Guangzhou and his first visit to the new US Consulate building. He said that his grandfather and father were both born in Guangdong, and his mother was from Hong Kong. He would be very happy every time he returned to Guangdong, "I have always wanted to come to Guangzhou because you can eat authentic sesame paste in Guangzhou, but all you can eat in Beijing is powder (flour)."