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Follow steps 1-6 to begin your application process for getting a Chinese visa

Follow steps 1-6 to begin your application process for getting a Chinese visa
1. Fill out your request for a Chinese visa  on the V2013 Chinese application form.  Form must be typed, not hand written.  
   
Below are the most type of Chinese visas selected by United State citizens.  Other type are listed on the left side of this page.
2. Tourist Visa: 
 (A) The L visa is issued to those who intend to go to China as a tourist. Applicants are required to send their original passports, Chinese visa application for V2013, copy of Airline tickets and hotel reservations, and recent passport photo.

 (B) The Q2 visa is issued to those who intend to visit their relatives who are Chinese citizens residing in China or foreigners with permanent residence in China. The intended duration of stay in China is no more than 180 days.  Please submit the following:
    1.  An invitation letter by a Chinese citizen or a foreign citizen who lives in China with a Chinese permanent residence permit.  Photocopy of Chinese ID or foreign passport and permanent residence permit of the inviting individual.  The invitation letter should contain:(b) Information on the visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures) (c) Information on the inviting individual (name, contact number, address, signature etc.) (2) Photocopy of Chinese ID or foreign passport and permanent residence permit of the inviting individual

 (C) The S2 visa is issued to those who intend to visit their family members who are foreigners working or studying in China, or to those who intend to go to China for other private matters.  The intended duration of stay in China is no more than 180 days.  Please submit the following:

    1.  An invitation letter from the inviting individual (a foreigner who stays or resides in China for work or studies)  Photocopy of Chinese ID or foreign passport and permanent residence permit of the inviting individual.  The invitation letter should contain:(a) Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.). (b) Information on the visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures, etc.) (c) Information on the inviting individual (name, contact telephone number, address, signature, etc.). (2) A photocopy of the inviting individual’s (a foreigner who stays or lives in China for work or studies) passport and residence permit. (3) Photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship of family members between the applicant and the inviting individual

 

3. Business Visa:

 (A) The F visa is issued to those who intend to go to China for exchanges, visits, study tours and other activities.  An invitation letter issued by a relevant entity or individual in China.  An invitation letter issued by a relevant entity or individual in China. The invitation should contain:  (1) Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.). (2) Information on the planned visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting entity or individual, financial source for expenditures).  (3) Information on the inviting entity or individual (name, contact telephone number, address, official stamp, signature of the legal representative or the inviting individual)

 (B) The M visa is issued to those who intend to go to China for commercial and trade activities. Documents on the commercial activity issued by a trade partner in China, or trade fair invitation relevant entity or individual.  Documents on the commercial activity issued by a trade partner in China, or trade fair invitation relevant entity or individual. The invitation letter should contain:  (a). Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.).  (b). Information on the planned visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting entity or individual, financial source for expenditures). (c). Information on the inviting entity or individual (name, contact telephone number, address, official stamp, signature of the legal representative or the inviting individual)

 4. Other type Chinese visas:  Student, Crew, and work visas are listed at left of page.

 5. Fill out our( order form )and send your original passport with a copy of your information page, a recent passport photo, and all supporting documents to us at: Easy China Visa, 7001 Corporate drive, Suite 308, Houston, TX 77036.

 

   (a). Send copy of driver's license or recent utility bill also.

 

 6. Current price list for US Citizens:Check, money order only( No credit cards)  Non-US Citizens see chart below.

Number of Entry	Validity	Processing Time	Consular Fee	Service Fee	Return *Shipping*	Total Payment
1,2 or Multiple	6 or 12 Months	Regular  10 Business Days	$140	$38	$20*	$198
		Express 4-5 Business Days	$140	$68	$28	$236
		Rush **2-3 Business Days	$160	$98	$28	$286
1,2 or Multiple	6 or 12 Months	Same day **1-2 Business Days See Below!	$170	$138	$28	$336
		24Month	Please	Call	For	Price

 

  For Non-U.S. Citizen: Must send Green Card or Visa

Number of Entry Validity Processing Time Consular Fee Service Fee Return Shipping* Total Payment Single 3 Months 10 Business Days $30 $38 $20* $88 4-5 Business Days $30  $68 $28  $118 **2-3 Business Day $50  $98 $28  $176 Double 6Months 10 Business Days $45 $38 $20* $103 4-5 Business Days $45   $68 $28  $133 **2-3 Business Day $65   $98 $28   $191  Mulitipule Entry  Chinese visas  are not  available  for Non-US Citizens  Now.

    Regular: 10 business days; Express: 4-5 business days; **Rush: 2-3 business days

    Return shipping options:  Standard rates listed above, can write on your order form for rates listed below.

  1. * Charge for 2 day return shipping

  2.  $28.00 Charge for overnight shipping

  3.  $45.00 Charge for Priority overnight shipping

  4.  $68.00 Charge for Sunday, and Alaska/Hawaii destinations

  5.  $88.00 Charge for First Priority over night, FedEx

  6.  PO Box addresses are shipped by USPS only, not FedEx,or UPS.  

 

 ** Currently there is no same day or rush service at the Houston Chinese Consulate, please call first.  Requires Emergency statement of reason for same day or rush service!

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16-Year-Old Does Masterful Elvis Impersonation

16-Year-Old Does Masterful Elvis Impersonation

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A French Canadian teenager is gaining fame on the Internet for doing one of the last things you would expect a French Canadian teenager to do: Impersonate Elvis Presley better than men much older than him.

David Thibault mimics “The King” professionally. He even competed in an Elvis impersonator show and uploads his Presley covers to YouTube. But the 16 year-old reached a whole new audience when he performed “Blue Christmas” for pop music radio station CKOI in Quebec. As the teenager strummed the final notes of the song, the show hosts immediately exclaimed “Wow!” and showered him with compliments in French. Thibault repeatedly said, “Thank you very much” – not in his Elvis voice though.

Commenters on the YouTube video note that when they close their eyes – it really does sound like Presley singing. Others have voiced disappointment that another guitar-playing teenage Canadian, Justin Bieber, rose to fame and Thibault is still relatively unknown. The cover of “Blue Christmas” has almost 600,000 views.

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Get Your Man Back: Rebuild The Strong, Secure, Boundlessly Attractive YOU He First Fell In Love With

Do you sometimes feel like your whole life revolves around trying to figure out what went wrong to cause your man to break up with you? Or, if you're still together, do you spend hours wondering "what's going on" with him, or why he doesn't call and see you as much?
If this sounds painfully familiar, there's a reason for it: most of what we as women have been taught all our lives about keeping a great man (and what causes us to lose him) is WRONG.
That's why I created the "Get Him Back" Boot Camp infographic below. It shows you step-by-step exactly how to rebuild your emotional strength to inspire lasting devotion in your man. Click to view it full size and start working towards bringing him back today.
But before your training begins, let me tell you exactly WHY these exercises really work to make him realize you are the woman he can't live without (and will do anything to get back!)

Why "Get Him Back" Boot Camp Works

You'll Be Granting Your Man's Secret Wish

Most women have no clue about a "secret wish" that every quality man carries deep inside himself: the wish to find just one rare, irresistibly powerful quality in a forever partner... the quality of highly valuing and honoring YOURSELF.
How do you create this quality in yourself? You do it by learning how to put yourself first.
We've been taught our entire lives that focusing on a man's needs is the best way to "win" his affection and attention. But, even though it goes against everything we learn as women, the path to rekindling a man's passion and commitment is stopping all the wondering, analyzing, and worrying about why HE acts the way he does and beginning to explore and fully experience your own life in the most powerful ways possible... up to and including beginning to go on casual dates with other men!
Of course, it may seem illogical - even scary - to consider granting your man's "secret wish" by experiencing other men. But the truth is, it's one of the most powerful things you can do to become the self-honoring woman your man will do anything to get back. Learn more about a powerful tool called "Circular Dating" on Day 6 of "Get Him Back" Boot Camp and in my free relationship newsletters.
Once your man realizes that you value your own worth, you'll drive him crazy with desire by becoming a prize that requires fighting for. Do it, and he'll never let you go again.

You'll Break Old Habits

When your man leaves you or starts to pull away, you need to accept that you've probably done something to cause it. I know this is painful to admit, but when it comes to getting your man back, changing YOUR behavior patterns is the fastest way to clear the path to reconnecting with him.
Identify and break the habits that are blocking his view of your self-esteem and strength - and watch him start to move back to you! This means learning how to "lean back," giving your man time and space to miss you instead of constantly checking-in, calling, texting, and showing up at his door. It also means learning how to NOT have your life revolve around him anymore.
No more spending all day thinking about him. No more scheduling your day around his plans. No more watching what you say and don't say. No more "overfunctioning" to make him happy, or accepting things he does that make you unhappy. Check out Day 2 of "Get Him Back" Bootcamp for tips on how to stop "overfunctioning" and what to do instead.
Above all, understand that your man will only be inspired to move towards you again once you recognize that you need to begin changing some things about yourself.

You'll Share Your Emotions The RIGHT Way

As women, we tend to lose control of (or hide) our emotions because of fear and insecurities about how he will react when we express ourselves. But the shocking truth is, men are powerfully, helplessly ATTRACTED to our emotional natures above all else.
In reality, it's all the "drama" of how we sometimes express emotions that men run away from. So don't be afraid to show your feelings, but be sure to express them in a way that's non-judging and non-critical so your man doesn't feel blamed or cornered. Instead, learn how to share and embrace them in the right way.
Do this often, and you'll make your man sense at a deep, unconscious level that he wants and needs your company, your touch, your affection. In fact, he'll feel compelled to open his heart and take action and get it. You don't even need a man around to practice this - start expressing your feelings the right way with everyone you meet. Learn more on Day 3 of "Get Him Back" Boot Camp.. Plus, I go much more in-depth on how your feminine emotions can make you magnetically attractive to a man (when expressed the right way) in my relationship advice newsletters. You can sign up here for free.

You'll Be TAKING ACTION

Think back to the "you" who first met and started dating your man. Was she constantly obsessing about him and calling him? Did she arrange her life around what he was doing? Did she sacrifice her own feelings of strength and self-worth to please him?

Know someone else who might need the "Get Him Back" BootCamp Plan? Pay it forward and share with your network.

Of course not. Chances are, when you first met him, you were focused on strengthening and building up yourself instead - and it made you EXTREMELY attractive to him. That's why I want you to take this opportunity to start working on YOURSELF and become more like the woman who attracted him in the first place.

So Let's Get Started!

Click on the Infographic below to view it full size and find your detailed 7 Day Plan. You can start Day 1 of your Boot Camp exercises TODAY and by the end of day 7 - just watch as he does everything he can to get you back!

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when history repeats

Bitter ironies emerged Tuesday when attorneys for Bush-43 and gang used virtually the same general argument many Nazis used, during the Nuremberg trials, in defense of their horrific actions.

You don’t have to be all that old to have already heard many of the moving stories of human tragedy and suffering that occurred during World War II and to have some understanding of how those atrocities helped shape the world we live in today.

Although the establishment’s history re-writers would like us to concentrate primarily on those happening to the people that also happened to have been of Jewish ancestry or faith, tens of millions from all over the world and from many different backgrounds suffered an immeasurable mountain of untold human hardship and anguish, at the blood-soaked hands of multiple dictators and tyrants of the era.

Some estimates have up to as many as 20 million Russians and 15 million Chinese people perishing as a result of military activity and crimes against humanityduring WWII.

Because of the Western powers-that-be and their insatiable appetite to establish the world-government-legitimizing UN they’d been clamoring for and the nation of Israel in occupied Palestine however, the atrocities committed by the Germans, against the Jews specifically, was used primarily by the media, both during and after WWII, as the propaganda for a means to that end. While, on the other hand, virtually ignoring the atrocities committed in the communist countries, many see as far surpassing even the horror inflicted on the Jews during WWII.

This led to the capture of almost the entire NAZI political hierarchy and what’s now known as the “Nuremberg Trials.”

Still being historically regarded as the most publicized, advertised and propagandized trial in the history of mankind, it would eventually lead to virtually the entire NAZI hierarchy being sentenced to death by public hanging. At least those, according to the history books, that didn’t “commit suicide,” prior to either being captured, or convicted.

But not until after routinely making the argument they should all be spared their lives and freedom, because they were only doing “what they were ordered to do” by superior officers and doing what everyone else was doing. In other words, acting within the scope of their federal office or employment at the time of the incidents, or atrocities, in question.

An argument that was rightfully seen by the world and subsequently the small panel of international judges overseeing the trial as an unreasonable defense. Committing atrocities and crimes against humanity was seen back then and will likely always be seen as indefensible. At least, one would think.

Constitutionally defending your country or protecting it from an imminent threat is one thing, but it was obvious there was no rightful justification for unnecessarily invading other nations and committing atrocities such a genocide, torture, eugenics and other crimes against humanity, and the public deaths of every single government official in the NAZI regime was to set a precedent for the rest of the world to take heed.

Thus, the long-standing practice of pretending war crimes can be somehow justified by making arguments such as “orders are orders,” or because everyone else was doing it, or it seemed like the right thing to do at the time, or any of the other excuses used by evil governments and their puppets throughout the ages to justify subverting the God-given rights of others, was no longer going to be tolerated as acceptable. Whether those actions were committed by the common soldier taking orders from a commanding officer, all the way up to the highest levels of government.

Fast forward however to the beginning of the 21st-century and the weeks and months leading up to the War on “Terror,” as one example of just how far the establishment has strayed from those ideals.

It's now widely understood that the American people and subsequently the rest of the world were lied to during the process of initiating the war on terror and the ultimate invasion of Iraq, especially. Almost half of the American people now and 72% of registered Democrats believe that anyone trusting the Western establishment and its media was falsely led to believe Saddam Hussein was harboring some of the very al Qaeda terrorists that were said to have been responsible for the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and, among other things, continued to possess “stockpiles” of weapons of mass destruction.

The desperate and clear message was that if he wasn’t stopped, they said, the results could be catastrophic.

The Bush administration played off of the emotion created by the terror attacks of 9/11, regardless of what you believe took place that day, and sold the American people a bill of goods, with seamless support by the Western media. With grandiose presentations and speeches filled with spectacular exhibits and images, and artificial representations of falsehoods like enemy “mobile weapons labs” and “elaborate underground cities and tunnel systems, complete with electricity and the internet.” All aiming to scare the American people and the citizens of the West into going along with using the American military and its allies to attack multiple countries. All pre-planned (PNAC) and all having very little, if anything, to do with the reason for the aggressive action in the first place.

If "preemptive" attacks weren't carried out on the "axis of evil" (aka, the war-crime of attacking a nation not posing an imminent threat), according to the Bush administration, even the American people could end up seeing the repercussions of not taking action, "in the form of a mushroom cloud," or other forms of WMDs. Fooling the American people and the West into believing the ridiculous notion that Saddam Hussein and/or al Qaeda not only had the ability to acquire nuclear weapons, but also potentially possessing the capability of using them.

But even if the invasion of Iraq was only to "finish what his father, Bush-41, was unable to finish," as many contended was the real reason for the invasion of Iraq, or "for the oil, natural gas and other resources in the area, such as opiates," as many others argued, it's what happened after the invasion and the way the people of Iraq and Afghanistan were treated, both individually and as a people, that has the international community and many of the war’s surviving victims up in arms.

In addition to both Bush, Jr. and Dick Cheney themselves coming right out and admitting to authorizing the torture of prisoners of war, another war crime and violation of the Geneva Conventions (as detailed in the saga of Iraq’s US-controlled Abu Grahib prison), it was the culmination of over one-million innocent Iraqi civilians killed during the sustained dehumanization of a people that not only constitutes war crimes of the highest order, but can only been seen as mirroring the type of policies and actions that were taken by the NAZI regime itself.

In fact, considering how both played out, if one were to be given the details of either story, without being given the names, it may be hard for even the most historically versed to distinguish any meaningful difference between the two.

Both governments not only fooled their citizens into believing they were attacked by someone who had nothing to do with it (the Reichstag Fire in Germany and the 9/11 terror attacks in the US), they also both enacted heat-of-the-moment legislation, in the name of “national security.” Which included policies such as spying on its own citizens and setting up domestic federal police forces (The “Enabling” Act in NAZI Germany and the “Patriot” act in the US). In addition to attacking countries that had nothing to do with it.

After attacking those countries (Poland by Germany and Iraq and Afghanistan by the US), both governments and militaries would also institute policies that would end up being seen as war-crimes, which includes the use of torturing prisoners of war and propagandizing for the dehumanization and degradation of a people and their culture.

And now that some of the victims have begun to come forward to demand justice for themselves and the millions of innocents that have been brutalized by another world tyrant and his band of opportunists, while using a country’s military to cause havoc on a nation, outside of the rule of law and with disregard to humanity and the countless lives they destroyed along the way, it should be of no surprise they would also use the very same type of argument the Nazis used in defense of their actions, while being convicted and punished to death for the crimes they committed during the nightmare of WWII.

Especially now that the Obama administration has merely taken the baton and ran with it, seamlessly continuing on with the same overall foreign-policies of policing the world and preemptive interventionism that defined the post-9/11 Bush era.

In what is likely to go down in the annals however as one of the low points in US and maybe even world history, with regard to seeing justice for the crimes tyrants commit against innocent people, in the class-action case, Saleh v. Bush (N.D. Cal. Mar. 13, 2013, No. C 13 1124 JST), filed March 13, 2013 in a California district court, attorneys for Obama’s Department of Justice, on behalf of the Bush-43 administration, including named defendants Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell and Wolfowitz, had the gall to argue in defense of those allegations in an August 14, 2013 filing, by making the shocking statement that each of the defendants:

“Were acting within the scope of their federal office or employment at the time of the incidents out of which Counts I and II of the Complaint in this matter arose.”

Which, according to the complaint, are the war-crimes of conspiring and committing the crime of aggression against the people of Iraq, without cause or the acceptance of the invasion among the international community, and crimes against humanity.

So, in other words, according to the Bush administration, just as the NAZIs had tried to argue almost 70 years earlier to no avail, the excuse ("law") they've used, on multiple occasions now, for committing these war-crimes and sticking a knife through the very heart of the Geneva Conventions, with almost open enthusiasm, in addition to rebuking the wishes of the very UN they created out of the ashes of an almost identical situation, is because for some, all they were doing is following orders and for others, because it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. If you believe the official story.

All while companies like Halliburton (ahem...), bin Laden Group, The Chertoff Group, Blackwater and others made a killing profiting from the suppression of liberty and on death and destruction, as well as the subsequent rebuilding, of nations unfriendly to their overall geopolitical and economic agenda (aka, "terrorists"). Yet, the whistle-blowers who exposed many of these crimes and the crimes of the current administration, such as Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and the journalists who help them do it, are somehow regarded as traitors.

The problem this time however is that the establishment and media behind the persecution of the Nazis are generally the same ones now being accused of doing some of those very things in Iraq and elsewhere. So, how can anyone truly expect any real justice to be served under those circumstances?

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