Broseph32

I had a friend of mine go there (he's 67!), its actually fairly easy. You'll need to go to your city's local entry&exit bureau, and ask to go to tibet from the people that handle visa extensions. They'll ask you why you want to go to tibet- I'm not entirely sure what constitutes a 'good reason' to go, but my friend said he wanted to go to get a lhasa dog. He said they looked at him suspiciously for a second and then "OK!" You'll get a stamped paper that you'll need to carry around. That is your Tibet 'visa'. However, upon arriving, your only allowed to stay within the city of Lahsa. If you want to further explore, you will need to find whatever kind of PSB they have there and ask to explore outside the city. A train ticket to Lhasa from anywhere is expensive as hell.

Topic's a bit old, but i thought i'd clear something up- Unless anyone here is a former Chinese citizen, and currently a US citizen (and even then all i've heard are rumors), "yea right" to the becoming a chinese citizen idea. There is no immigration path for China.

http://news.163.com/10/0724/02/6CAS1J2600011229.html In Chinese, but the gist of it is A crazy woman with money&power went on a killing spree in a car killing 3. & The police will do nothing about it because she is "in". There's some good ol' fashioned Chinese justice for ya. If ya see her, and look like a foreigner, be sure to step in her way. I'm sure she'd rather die than be hit with the bill for sending a body back to the states!

Hmm, sorry i dont know much about that aspect of it. You may be better off finding a forum for people that are trying to sell imported products. Although a quick google search wasn't very fruitful, from what i can see, as long as its nothing unusual the duty will be paid and taken care of while its in customs after it arrives in the us. Thats how i paid the fees from that logistics company- after (or shortly before) it arrived in the us, they emailed and called me telling me about an invoice for a wide range of fees. I'm sure that if a duty was required on it, regardless for what i plan to do with it in the US, i would have paid it before the port would let it go.

Yea when i was in CJG i met alot of legends! Chenhuixian was one of them! Tell her James says hi! (if she still remembers me )

WOW ITS YOU!! Weve never met, but i know your wife! (from CJG) Hows it goin for you two? doin OK? Yes, actually i know a little about importing, but mostly just about the logistics part. Want exactly did you want to know? Just last year i shipped 2 taiji dagan's from zhengzhou to NC. Actually thinking about it a little more, you may or may not be better off just using good 'ol China post. (that is, by boat) I cant say for sure if it would be cheaper to find a company in china to ship containers to the US...... assuming your wanting to ship ALOT, then maybe, but let me break it down: When i shipped my Dagan i first found a special shipping company to do it (well, actually that was after ALOT of talking to ems, dhl, fedex, ups- NONE of them would do it == 4 meters long), and ill skip all the original prices and just list what it ended up being after all negotiation was said and done: 1500 RMB to the the company, mostly because 1. using a container isn't cheap, and 2. very much over sized. $~80 to a 'lavinstar logistics', which i really have no idea what it was they did, other than collect money. another $100 fee for going in and picking it up at the wherehouse myself. Whole ordeal took about a month from shipped to home.

Domicile? Get it in order, but dont expect them to really try hard to ding you on it. Its just one of their 'tools' that they CAN use against you, but i've never heard of it happening, and we had no problems with the issue either. Albeit i only back filed one tax return for 2008 with an income of $2000. I had written explanations of why i didn't file the other 2 years. As long as your cosponsor has an annual income of at least $50000 (and it's not questionable as to how long he/she can maintain it), they probably wont even look at anything else financial-wise. My cosponsor was my grandfather, who we also plan to be staying with for a while upon our return.

Well, not considering the mistake i made of thinking that statement on the packet 4 was applying to both persons, it still solves one thing: what details djwalker60 should include on his statement. Although technically that statement isn't aimed towards him, the petitioner's ex's info is nevertheless a more-than-uncommon denial at GUZ- one which he should prepare for to help prevent a possible denial- and p4 contains the details as to what it should include. I don't know how you missed that.

Well then i guess that solves it. Its amazing how little people actually read the official instructions, and then get all surprised come interview day. In practice though, i think that this (although it is right on p4) is actually only asked for maybe 50% of the time, so in some respect you would be preparing this document just in case, but really, there isn't much excuse not to have it: its right there. Not trying to scold anyone, just think its amazing how often people are blued for documents that they actually tell you to get- a lot of times they like to blue for stuff they dont tell you to get.

Yea, in this case pretty much just if its asked for. The reason i said 'prepare her on how to use it' was because i trained my girl how to use some of the less-direct documents to prove up other obsticals. For example, i included 6 months of bank statements for my usa bank account in my I-134. The primary purpose for this is to prove how much money i had in the bank. But it also served another purpose: I 'trained' my girl how to use it, by saying that should they want evidence for domicile, (as just one thing she could say>) she should direct them to the statements, as it shows active use of my bank account, while in china and in the US.

Correct. After that, the hardest part is just trying to get them to see it, but as long as you get a semi-competent VO, that shouldn't be a problem. I think you'll do fine- i prepared LOADS of documents that weren't at all necessary, but if i thought there was at least a 1% chance of it being asked for, i had it ready to go. [ie, resume for myself and my finacee, (where fiancee's is sometimes asked for if CCP) even though my fiancee was not CCP- prepared because i thought it would help our case for domicile, reinforce the fact that she's not CCP, and also clear up any misunderstandings they may have about her or my previous employments] O yea, and you shouldn't need to offer it up, just have it in case. Dont forget to prepare your girl to know when and how use it, too.

Like i said, dont give 'em a chance in hell to refuse ya! For the most part, you only get one real shot at the visa. Might as well do your best, or be prepared for the VO to roll the dice.

I dont know, i was just listing random stuff. I think it would be best to err on the side of more information rather than less, but your best bet is to look for a thread where someone else had this request (its not that uncommon in the realm of GUZ) and see exactly what it asked for.

Visa in hand, at last.

Visa is finally on its way- after 7 days from the interview.