I'd like invite my thai friend to China with F(visiting) visa, but he was failed to get tourist visa at Tuesday that was applied by himself, do you guys know some visa company can help him to do the F visa affair? he has already kept my personal invitation and my ID copy.

Any help would be greatly apprieciated

F visa will be harder to get than a tourist visa as it is primarily for business purposes, I know as I just had to get a few of my staff these visas for a work trip. Now working on Z visas so we can go offshore, now that's tricky.

F Visa = Business/Visit Visa

Issued to foreigners who are invited to China for business visit, research, lecture, scientific-technological and cultural exchanges.

F visa will be harder to get than a tourist visa as it is primarily for business purposes, I know as I just had to get a few of my staff these visas for a work trip. Now working on Z visas so we can go offshore, now that's tricky.

F Visa = Business/Visit Visa

Issued to foreigners who are invited to China for business visit, research, lecture, scientific-technological and cultural exchanges.

the website can not be open, do you have any company as recommendation?

F visa will be harder to get than a tourist visa as it is primarily for business purposes, I know as I just had to get a few of my staff these visas for a work trip. Now working on Z visas so we can go offshore, now that's tricky.

F Visa = Business/Visit Visa

Issued to foreigners who are invited to China for business visit, research, lecture, scientific-technological and cultural exchanges.

the website can not be open, do you have any company as recommendation?

Sorry no, we have done it through the Chinese company we are working for.

To the OP I am very surprised his request for a tourist visa was denied unless he filled in the form wrong.

As one of the posters above said most travel agents can arrange. My TGF had no problems getting one 18 months ago and we used a small agency in Pattaya who did not charge an exhorbitant premium for arranging it. Without an invite from a Chinese company very difficult to get an F type.

No one really cares, it is a typical China situation. There are 3 Levels: Legal - Not Legal, nor illegal - Things you can not do.

If you want to be 'legal' you have to deal with capricious, illogical, bigoted, outdated bureaucracy. You just do something which whilst not being legal is not illegal, then you are OK.

Western concepts of compliance simply allow the Chinese government apparatchiks to take advantage of the inadequacies in the beloved western compliance mantra.

Apply for an 'L' tourist visa, take him to the Bund or Tian-an-men and take some photos. He visits some colleagues. If you want him to work in China as an employee, not a visitor, apply for a work visa.

No one cares what he does on his vacation once he is here.

China is not Thailand.

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