{"id":646,"date":"2005-04-22T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=646"},"modified":"2005-04-22T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T09:31:00","slug":"visa-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Visa accomplished."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to sing the praises of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mychinavisa.com\">mychinavisa.com<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;consular district.&#8221;  I was nervous about shipping the thing off to them, but in the end it worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Given the amount of dithering and stress that I put into the process of getting the visa, the final solution was remarkably simple:<\/p>\n<p>* Print out application materials from mychinavisa.com; fill them out.  Attach a passport photo<br \/>\n* Provide a letter of invitation from the company in China with whom I&#8217;m doing business<br \/>\n* Provide a credit card number.<br \/>\n* Fedex it all to Texas (Wed.)<br \/>\n* Receive it back, completed, today (Fri).<\/p>\n<p>This rocks.  I&#8217;m good to go.  Got my plane tickets, got my visas.<\/p>\n<p>For those keeping track at home, I got the following immunizations updated for this trip:<\/p>\n<p>* Hep A<br \/>\n* Hep B<br \/>\n* Tetanus<br \/>\n* Polio<br \/>\n* MMR (That&#8217;s Measles, Mumps, Rubella)<\/p>\n<p>Three in the left shoulder, two in the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}