{"id":828,"date":"2006-09-13T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2006-09-13T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T01:34:00","slug":"visa-application-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Visa application take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Well I should have known. The flower\/gift shop across the road from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.chineseconsulate.org\/eng\/\">Chinese consulate (\u4e2d\u534e\u4eba\u6c11\u5171\u548c\u56fd\u9a7b\u6089\u5c3c\u603b\u9886\u9986 \u7248\u6743\u6240\u6709)<\/a> does visa photos, to attach to the visa. Very enterprising of them. Anyway, this time I arrived armed with all the necessary bits and entered into the application hall. You should go there. It is just so very much reminiscent of a train station booking hall, found anywhere in china, but fitted out to a higher level. I instantly felt like I was in China. This was unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>The application went very smoothly. There were no queues as there were at least 5 booths open, even though I was there first thing in the morning. Hand over the passport, bit of paper that is a visa application form and a photo, get back a bit of paper so that I can collect the passport in 4 days. $30 seems reasonable for a country that still requires and charges for a visa. I will take the opportunity to point out that South Korea does not require a visa at all.<\/p>\n<p>*wanders off to add the consulate to the map*<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7285\/1965\/1600\/Visa%20Pickup.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7285\/1965\/320\/Visa%20Pickup.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I should have known. The flower\/gift shop across the road from the Chinese consulate (\u4e2d\u534e\u4eba\u6c11\u5171\u548c\u56fd\u9a7b\u6089\u5c3c\u603b\u9886\u9986 \u7248\u6743\u6240\u6709) does visa photos,[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}