Allow me to sing the praises of mychinavisa.com.
I have, in my hot little hands, my very own passport with a Chinese visa in it. It cost me $200 for the same-day-rush service. I could have gotten it $50 cheaper if I was willing to wait a week. These people are located in Houston, near the Chinese consulate there. Apparently they have a special relationship with the consulate which permits them to get visas for residents outside the “consular district.” I was nervous about shipping the thing off to them, but in the end it worked out.
Given the amount of dithering and stress that I put into the process of getting the visa, the final solution was remarkably simple:
* Print out application materials from mychinavisa.com; fill them out. Attach a passport photo
* Provide a letter of invitation from the company in China with whom I’m doing business
* Provide a credit card number.
* Fedex it all to Texas (Wed.)
* Receive it back, completed, today (Fri).
This rocks. I’m good to go. Got my plane tickets, got my visas.
For those keeping track at home, I got the following immunizations updated for this trip:
* Hep A
* Hep B
* Tetanus
* Polio
* MMR (That’s Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
Three in the left shoulder, two in the right.
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