Washington DC Chinese Embassy (do i need an appointment)

[Dan777]

Hi, has anyone gone to the Washington DC Embassy to replace a passport? I need to know if we need an appointment. I plan on leaving in 3 days so it would be helpful if I knew. Wife lost chinese passport and she needs a replacement. I do not see anywhere where we need an appointment. She said she saw it on the Chinese website. We have a copy of the passport that is certified when she applied for the two year green card. I know we need passport photos and I downloaded a form she is having a hard time filling out and is going to get her friend to help her. I tried to emal the embassy and already got a reply their email server rejected the email. Last time I tried calling an embassy I only got busy signals or voicemail no one ever replied to. The passport services I tried online only deal with US passports.

[dnoblett]

The site make absolutely no mention about needing to make an appointment, just visit and turn in an application. The site does make mention that they don't mail it out to you, but that you can have someone trusted pick it up, in this case you probably may use a visa service like Oasis Chinese Visa service to pick it up and send it to you if you are unable to revisit the embassy.

After I arrived at the embassy passport, can you send me back?　

 

Embassies and consulates do not provide postal service. If necessary, you may entrust others to collect your passport on our behalf. Others do not need to receive a proxy, but need to submit the original documentary evidence. If evidence is lost, you need to come and collect it.

我到使馆办完护照后，你们能帮我寄回来吗？

 

使领馆不提供回邮服务。如有需要，你可自行委托他人代为到我馆领取你的护照。他人领取无需委托书，但需提交取证单原件。如取证单不慎遗失，你需本人前来领取。

　
http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/hzlxz/t1234488.htm

http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/hzlxz/t1234455.htm

[Dan777]

The site make absolutely no mention about needing to make an appointment, just visit and turn in an application. The site does make mention that they don't mail it out to you, but that you can have someone trusted pick it up, in this case you probably may use a visa service like Oasis Chinese Visa service to pick it up and send it to you if you are unable to revisit the embassy.

 

After I arrived at the embassy passport, can you send me back?　

 

Embassies and consulates do not provide postal service. If necessary, you may entrust others to collect your passport on our behalf. Others do not need to receive a proxy, but need to submit the original documentary evidence. If evidence is lost, you need to come and collect it.

 

我到使馆办完护照后，你们能帮我寄回来吗？

 

使领馆不提供回邮服务。如有需要，你可自行委托他人代为到我馆领取你的护照。他人领取无需委托书，但需提交取证单原件。如取证单不慎遗失，你需本人前来领取。

　

http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/hzlxz/t1234488.htm

http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/hzlxz/t1234455.htm

 

Thank you. That is what I told her but she says she saw that you need an appointment. If I tell her something it is not true. If her friend tells her something it is true for sure. I found another place online that will pick up the passport for a fee but I am going to check the place you posted a link to also. When we went to New York to get paper work for her retirement the line was way down the block so I am more prepared to go and wait to get in. I expect it will be very cold there. It would be nice if they had posted a valid email and had the funds to answer you. When I get off work I am going to try and compare the web sites with her and see if what she sees in Chinese they have it in English on the English version.

[dnoblett]

A little looking around they mention a mobile booking system here: http://ppt.mfa.gov.cn this may be where can set an appointment.

 

http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/hzlxz/t1525482.htm

[Dan777]

 

The site make absolutely no mention about needing to make an appointment, just visit and turn in an application. The site does make mention that they don't mail it out to you, but that you can have someone trusted pick it up, in this case you probably may use a visa service like Oasis Chinese Visa service to pick it up and send it to you if you are unable to revisit the embassy.

 

After I arrived at the embassy passport, can you send me back?　

 

Embassies and consulates do not provide postal service. If necessary, you may entrust others to collect your passport on our behalf. Others do not need to receive a proxy, but need to submit the original documentary evidence. If evidence is lost, you need to come and collect it.

 

我到使馆办完护照后，你们能帮我寄回来吗？

 

使领馆不提供回邮服务。如有需要，你可自行委托他人代为到我馆领取你的护照。他人领取无需委托书，但需提交取证单原件。如取证单不慎遗失，你需本人前来领取。

　

http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/hzlxz/t1234488.htm

http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/hzlxz/t1234455.htm

 

Thank you. That is what I told her but she says she saw that you need an appointment. If I tell her something it is not true. If her friend tells her something it is true for sure. I found another place online that will pick up the passport for a fee but I am going to check the place you posted a link to also. When we went to New York to get paper work for her retirement the line was way down the block so I am more prepared to go and wait to get in. I expect it will be very cold there. It would be nice if they had posted a valid email and had the funds to answer you. When I get off work I am going to try and compare the web sites with her and see if what she sees in Chinese they have it in English on the English version.

 

 

Both those links are in Chinese. I will have to have my wife look at them. I did email the link to the visa place you posted.

[Dan777]

A little looking around they mention a mobile booking system here: http://ppt.mfa.gov.cn this may be where can set an appointment.

 

http://www.china-embassy.org/chn/lszj/hzlxz/t1525482.htm

 

Thank you. Since I can not read or speak Chinese I will have my wife look at them. I have not tried google translate but that is something I thought of when I was replying to you. I really appreciate the help!

[dnoblett]

Both those links are in Chinese. I will have to have my wife look at them. I did email the link to the visa place you posted.

Chrome browser auto translates pages, and that link looks like the booking site for the consulates and the embassy in DC.

 

http://ppt.mfa.gov.cn/

[Dan777]

 

Both those links are in Chinese. I will have to have my wife look at them. I did email the link to the visa place you posted.

Chrome browser auto translates pages, and that link looks like the booking site for the consulates and the embassy in DC.

 

http://ppt.mfa.gov.cn/

 

 

That did help a little better than copy and paste. But when I got to location I will still need her help. Would be nice if they also had English but I expect there are a lot of other people that would like other languages there.

[Randy W]

 

 

Both those links are in Chinese. I will have to have my wife look at them. I did email the link to the visa place you posted.

Chrome browser auto translates pages, and that link looks like the booking site for the consulates and the embassy in DC.

 

http://ppt.mfa.gov.cn/

 

 

That did help a little better than copy and paste. But when I got to location I will still need her help. Would be nice if they also had English but I expect there are a lot of other people that would like other languages there.

 

 

 

People who need Chinese passports are CHINESE - these pages are in Chinese ONLY for all the consulates.

[Dan777]

 

 

 

Both those links are in Chinese. I will have to have my wife look at them. I did email the link to the visa place you posted.

Chrome browser auto translates pages, and that link looks like the booking site for the consulates and the embassy in DC.

 

http://ppt.mfa.gov.cn/

 

 

That did help a little better than copy and paste. But when I got to location I will still need her help. Would be nice if they also had English but I expect there are a lot of other people that would like other languages there.

 

 

 

People who need Chinese passports are CHINESE - these pages are in Chinese ONLY for all the consulates.

 

I wish my wife was able to do a lot of things. She speaks and reads Chinese, I don't. I just got her to go online and search for things a few years ago. Now she uses my old ipad but still asks me questions I can not answer because I can not read the Chinese. I was thinking other people helping Chinese people get their passports may be in the same situation. She expects me to teach her English but since she can not remember what I teach her for 5 minutes I gave up.

[Randy W]

My wife only recently learned how to order from Taobao - it seems like we get something every 2 or 3 days now, but she has NO idea what's in a package until she opens it.

[Dan777]

 

Both those links are in Chinese. I will have to have my wife look at them. I did email the link to the visa place you posted.

Chrome browser auto translates pages, and that link looks like the booking site for the consulates and the embassy in DC.http://ppt.mfa.gov.cn/

My wife and her friend were able to make an appointment to get another passport. This was an impossible task for me to do. I guess we will see how difficult it is.

[Dan777]

It was not at the Chinese Embassy but at the visa office. I found this out after we got to DC. We had the paperwork so far but waiting for the interview now. Her passport was in her name in China but her green card and everything else is in her married name. 2 hours so far. New York Chinese embassy was a mad house and you had to wait in a line a block long to get in.

[dnoblett]

It was not at the Chinese Embassy but at the visa office. I found this out after we got to DC. We had the paperwork so far but waiting for the interview now. Her passport was in her name in China but her green card and everything else is in her married name. 2 hours so far. New York Chinese embassy was a mad house and you had to wait in a line a block long to get in.

 

So instead of DC, you ended up at the consulate in NYC?

 

Yes, the visa section in DC handles transactions like this...

 

2201 Wisconsin Ave #110, Washington, DC 20007

https://goo.gl/maps/F9Pz3HvbKvj

[Dan777]

No, ended up at the Washington DC visa office to replace her lost passport (she has no idea how she lost it). Last year she needed paperwork for her retirement. We went to New York for that. I kind of mixed those two together. DC visa office was tame compared to Chinese New York office. Now we wait for a month to see if they replace passport.