Greetings readers!<\/p>\n
I have just come back from \u9999\u6e2f<\/strong>(Hong Kong) because of an issue with my \u7b7e\u8bc1<\/strong>(visa). A multi-entry visa will let you \u591a\u6b21\u5165\u5883<\/strong>, but only for 60 days at a time. I went to the \u51fa\u5165\u5883\u7ba1\u7406\u5c40<\/strong>(border entry-exit administration) at Andingmen, where I found that they could not effectively \u5ef6<\/strong>(extend) my visa because I didn’t have a \u4f4f\u5bbf\u8bc1<\/strong> (or \u6682\u4f4f\u8bc1<\/strong>, which means temporary residence certificate) nor did I have proof of assets in China.\u00a0 It’s a simple matter to set up a bank account, but time was running out on my stay and I couldn’t be bothered to do it until I got back.\u00a0 If you’ve never had to go to a visa office, consider the experience to be something like going to the DMV\/RMV. How long you must wait on line is determined by how urgently you must get your task completed. Moreover, you need to provide multiple photos which you take on the second floor but pay for and retrieve on the first floor. \u00a0 Since my only option was to leave the country and come back, I had to quickly decide between \u8499\u53e4<\/strong>(Mongolia- US citizens need a visa), \u97e9\u56fd<\/strong>(Korea – the boat ride from Tianjin takes 20 hours), or \u9999\u6e2f <\/strong>(acceptable price for the plane ticket- plus I could always make the money back at \u6fb3\u95e8<\/strong>\/Macau, see next entry!) \u9999\u6e2f<\/strong> it was!\u00a0 Ordered my plane tickets on Friday night and I was out on Saturday morning, free to explore HK\/Macau until Tuesday.\u00a0 It was a remarkable experience being in HK. Being able to speak Mandarin was not the advantage that speaking Cantonese could have been, although I’ll write a little more about that in the Macau entry.<\/p>\n Readers, does it work better for you to have me put the pinyin in the text so that the words become contextualized and you can guess at the meaning or does it work better for me to have the explanations there too?<\/p>\n \u9999\u6e2fxiang1gang3 – Hong Kong Greetings readers! I have just come back from \u9999\u6e2f(Hong Kong) because of an issue with my \u7b7e\u8bc1(visa). A multi-entry visa will let you \u591a\u6b21\u5165\u5883, but only for 60 days at a time. I went to the \u51fa\u5165\u5883\u7ba1\u7406\u5c40(border entry-exit administration) at Andingmen, where I found that they could not effectively \u5ef6(extend) my visa because I didn’t…<\/p>\n
\n\u7b7e\u8bc1qian1zheng4- visa
\n\u591a\u6b21duo1ci4 – multiple times
\n\u5165\u5883ru4jing4 – enter the borders
\n\u51fa\u5165chu1ru4 – exit-entry
\n\u7ba1\u7406\u5c40guan3li3ju2 (note that the tone in guan3 becomes 2 here) – administrative office
\n\u5ef6yan2- extend
\n\u4f4f\u5bbf\u8bc1zhu4su4zheng4 – residential certificate
\n\u6682\u4f4f\u8bc1zan4zhu4zheng4 – temporary residence certificate
\n\u8499\u53e4Meng2gu3- Mongolia
\n\u97e9\u56fdHan2guo2 – South Korea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"