On 2012/10/23 10:34, Peter Junge said: > Hi, > > I have heard several Chinese speakers who want to present at the > ApacheCon EU 2012 are having problems with getting their visa in time.
Who and how many speakers from China are having this VISA problem? > > Indeed, the recent situation was very bad because the German embassy > doesn't have the resources to handle the strong demand for German visas > in China, e.g. they have only two telephone lines to make appointments > for submitting visa applications. > > Just last week the German embassy started to outsource the visa > application process to a private agency which will certainly make > everything easier, e.g. they are checking each application for > completeness and correctness while previously visa applications were > declined deliberately without giving any information about what went wrong. > > The website of the visa agency can be found here: > https://cn.tlscontact.com/cnBJS2de/splash.php > The service is available in English, Chinese and German. > > Additional information from the German embassy (in Chinese) can be found > here: > http://www.china.diplo.de/Vertretung/china/zh/01-service/visa/tls/0-s.html > > Hope it's not to late. > > Peter -- Best regards, imacat ^_*' <[email protected]> PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc <<Woman's Voice>> News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/ Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://wofoss.blogspot.com/ OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/ Greenfoot Taiwan http://greenfoot.westart.tw/
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