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Visa Information
If you live or work in the Beijing Consular District and intend to engage
in tourist activities, attend an educational institution, attend meetings
or conferences, or work temporarily in the United States, you may apply
for a visa at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The Beijing Consular District
includes the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin, and the provinces of
Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei,
Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan or Jiangxi. If your visa application is approved,
your passport with the visa will generally be given back within 20 minutes
of your interview. If printing your visa will require more than 30 minutes,
you will be given a claim ticket identifying the date and time your visa
will be ready.
The Visa Information Call Center provides non-immigrant and immigrant visa-related
information to visa applicants and schedules non-immigrant visa interview
appointments for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the U.S. Consulates General
in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang. The Visa Information Call
Center reopened on June 3, 2004.
Available Services Callers are be able
to access information on all visa-types and application procedures for
both immigrant and non-immigrant visas
All non-immigrant visa appointments for Mainland China are now made through
the Visa Information Call Center.
Service is offered in Mandarin, Cantonese, English, the Fuzhou dialect
and the Taishan dialect.
Payment
This is a user-pays service and the charge is 54 RMB for 12 minutes or
36 RMB for 8 minutes. Any unused minutes can be reused at a later time
or transferred to another party. There are 3 methods of payment.
This is a user-pays service and the charge is 54 RMB for 12 minutes or
36 RMB for 8 minutes. Any unused minutes can be reused at a later time
or transferred to another party. There are 3 methods of payment.
Address
United States Embassy of Beijing, China
Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr.
Xiu Shui Bei Jie 3, 100600
Phone (86-10) 6532-3831
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Friday |
New Year's Day |
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| January 17 |
Monday |
Martin Luther King, Jr's Birthday |
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Lunar New Year |
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Monday |
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday |
International Labor Day |
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Monday |
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Monday |
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Chinese National Day |
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Monday |
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US |
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Friday |
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US |
| November 24 |
Thursday |
Thanksgiving Day |
US |
| December 26 |
Monday |
Christmas Day |
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