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== To go to China, you need to have a visa! == === To get a visa, you need to have a passport. === Your passport needs to have at least 6 months before expiration. === Getting a visa from the [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/qianzhen/ San Francisco Consulate] === For this trip, a [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/qianzhen/zgqz/t48485.htm one time entry tourist visa] will do. (Make sure you say that you are going as a tourist, otherwise it is a pain!) The [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/qianzhen/ Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco] is at [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/about/t50487.htm Geary Expressway and Laguna]. If you have Simplified Chinese for Adobe Acrobat installed, you can download a [http://sanfrancisco.china-consulate.org/chn/qianzhen/t554559.htm form] from the Chinese consulate general website, and bring it in to their consulate office (If you don't have Simplified Chinese for Adobe Acrobat, the form won't print, but the consulate has paper versions of the form). They also want a ''real'' photograph for the form. A color printout on regular paper won't do. The consulate information desk person can take 4 passport photos for $10. Their visa office is [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/qianzhen/t42285.htm a little uphill on Geary towards Geary Court]. When you walk in, you have to pass a metal detector, where you're checked for stuff like Swiss Army knives and digital cameras. You need to take a number (which isn't totally obvious), and when they call you, you walk up to the displayed teller window and give them your filled out paperwork (what you downloaded from their website or filled in while you were waiting) and your passport (which they keep for a while - the more you pay them, the shorter you have to wait, but it's at least one day), and you may also need to bring a printout for your plane ticket (seems to be optional, [[user:Cmaier | Christoph]] got his visa without the ticket). If you're a foreigner, they want a copy of your Green Card (or probably the other visa that will get you admitted back into the US and A). There's a photocopier in the office, for a quarter a copy. You go back some days later, and they give you your passport with the visa pasted in, after you [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/qianzhen/t535529.htm pay them] [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/qianzhen/t580026.htm with check or credit card, '''no cash''']. You don't even have to pick a number this time. Their hours are usually [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/qianzhen/t42285.htm weekdays 9-12, 13-15], but they have some [http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgsf/eng/qianzhen/t527658.htm non-obvious holidays (for 2009)], so check them out on the website. Again, be sure to apply for a single entry tourist visa. Other visa are more expensive and more painful to get.
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