Bonjour!
Alors la je suis en galère!!!!!
J'ai réservé un tour de 14 jours au Tibet, du 15juillet au 28Juillet de Lhassa au Népal.
Le permis ne prend pas en compte apparemment la validité du visa pour son obtention.
Mon visa est valable jusqu'au 22Juillet, je pensait qu'il n'y aurait aucun problème pour le prolonger au PSB de Lijiang de seulement 7 jours supplémentaires contre 160RMB mais c'est trop tôt pour demander l'extension!!!
En effet, on ne peux apparemment demander une prolongation de visa que entre 7 et 3 jours avant la fin de validité du visa!
Hors 7 jours avant la fin de validité de mon visa, c'est le 17Juillet, je serait à Lhassa!
Il est impossible de prolonger son visa au Tibet!!!
Quelqu'un s'est il déjà trouvé dans cette situation?
Quelle à été la solution?
Je vais essayer dans un autre PSB mais ça sera surement le même refrain "l'ordinateur vérifie la date", peut être qu'avec le permit Tibétain en poche...
Merci beaucoup!
Tchao
pas de panique, il y a une solution
d abord, il faut t exipliquer le pourquoi de ta "galere"
c est par ce que tu es francais...tu sais bien qu en ce moment c est un peu difficille question visa pour les francais (simple lubie politique passageres)
la plupart de mes collegues francais de l université de shanghai qui doivent faire renouveller leur visa en ce moment sont aussi en galere...
cette histoire de 3 ou 7 jours c"est des conneries, crois moi...
si tu n arrive pas a faire renouveler ton visa a lijiang (san bien sur faire mention du tibet au flics) va a lhassa et va au PSB service renouvellement de visa, le DERNIER JOUR de validité de ton visa...on te le renouvellera a lhassa sans problemes pour un mois, d autant que tu as le fameux permis....
moi je j ai deja fait renouveller plusieurs fois a lhassa (et sans permis ) et je n ai jamais eu de problemes...
sinon tu peux aller au PSB de xi ning au qin hai et on te le renouvellera en une heure...
160 Y....
il est dit beaucoup de choses pour decourager les etrangers a venir au tibet , mais le tibet est soumis a la m^me loi que partout ailleur en chine...
voila, c est tout
oliwen
Bonjour Lucq!
Merci pour ta réponse complète mais je ne pense malheureusement pas que ce soit aussi "simple"!
Tout d'abord pour les Français, en effet il y a en ce moment des difficultés et ce, depuis le 18Mai, vas savoir pourquoi mais au Vietnam (contrairement à la Thaïlande), il est impossible pour un Français de faire un visa Chinois!
Mais ça ne tient pas car ma femme est Russe!
Nous avons essayés aujourd'hui même à SangriLa ou nous avons été reçu par une policière d'origine Tibétaine très sympathique, attentive et arrangeante. Malheureusement cela n'as pas suffit car elle ne peux, comme à Lijiang, saisir un dossier sur l'ordinateur sans que celui ci ne bloque à cause de la date. Il faut à présent déposer sa demande 1 semaine avant la date d'expiration, pas avant.
Bon nous n'avons pas insisté plus que cela car nous n'avons pas encore en main le permit, le billet de train et une lettre de notre agence qui certifie que le PSB de Lhassa refuse strictement de faire la moindre extension de visa.
Par contre, la policière nous à conseillé de nous rendre à un PSB d'une plus grosse ville genre Kunming et Shanghai. Elle indique que les petits PSB comme ceux de Lijiang et Sangrila délivrent l'extension dans la journée contrairement aux PSB des grosses villes qui demandent pres de 3 jours pour s'executer, la restriction doit donc être plus souple, genre 10 jours avant la fin du visa.
Je vous tient au courant mais dans tout les cas, présenter une demande d'extension à Lhassa est la solution la plus risquée, les chose changent si vite en Chine.
1 jour de dépassement de visa c'est 500RMB d'amende, nous sommes deux et demandons une extension de seulement 7 jours!
je vais justement lundi au psb de shanghai a minh sheng lu faire prolonger mon visa, lundi matin...
pour quoi il est difficille de faire un visa par les frnacais, c est par ce que le france est e premier pays ueropen test pour les passeports biometriques...et que justement la chine n en a pas encore fabriqué...le gouv chinois prend donc cela ppur une attaque personelle...
hehe...µ
oui, tu dois te presenter dans un psb qulconque le dernier jour de ton visa, sinon tu perfera des jours...p ex, si ton visa se termine le 2 juillet et que tu veux rester jusqu' au 2 aout, tu va au psb le 2 juillet car si tu y vas le 29 ou 30juin, la peolongation sera uniquement valable jusqu au 29 ou 30 juillet...
c est la date ou tu dépose ton visa au psb qui est prise en compte, pas la date indiquée sur le visa...
en chin cela ne se passe pas comme en thailande ou au cambodge par ex...
Salut Lucq
Pourrait tu me faire la faveur de toucher un mot de mon histoire au PSB de Shanghai lorsque tu déposeras ta demande, quel est leur délais de traitement et surtout si ils peuvent traiter ma prolongation 15 jours avant l'expiration de mon visa, je n'ai besoin que de 8 malheureux jours supplémentaires!
Grand merci!
Vraiment il ne faut pas attendre Lhassa, ils ne veulent pas traiter d'extension, mon agence me dit d'ailleurs que tout les PSB savent que ceux du Tibet ne font pas de prolongation et continuent à s'étonner de l'apprendre d'un étranger!
Est tu absolument certain que l'on peux déposer sa demande le dernier jour de ton visa, j'ai entendu dire que la demande ne pouvait intervenir que entre 7 et 3 jours avant la date d'expiration, si moins de 3 jours, tu es prié de quitter le territoire!
Quoiqu'il en soit, la seule durée que l'on vous proposeras seras 1 mois, ni plus ni moins et pour le tarif unique de 160RMB.
Merci encore et bon week-end!
Tchao
ou ou i c est ca un mois pour 160 yuan
concernant la chine je vais t appendre une chose (et y a un forumeur de ce forum qui a mi cette sentence en bas de sa plage de texte)
"il ne faut pas croire ce qu ils disent , mais ce qu'ils font" et n oublies pas que la chine est le pays de la desinformation...
rassure toi, j ai habité en chine depuis 4 ans et je bosse avec les universités de pekin et shanghai...on a de bonnes infos concernant les visa et les procedures...
en ce momzent certains francais parvienne a avoir leur visas et d autres pas...avant hier, un collegu francais vas au psb pour son visa: refusé...
hier unnautre collegue francaise va u m^me psb poue son visa: sans problèmes...
hehe...
ne déseperez pas...
le plus simple et le plus proche: allez a kun ming ou a xia guan da li et faites renouveler vos papiers sans mentionner le tibet...
moi perso, je pars au tibet fin du mois et ensuit e le nepal et les vacances...et je n ai pas l intention de m emmerder avec les permis , les agences et les autres conneries olympiques a la mode en ce moment...
oliwen
Bonjour tout le monde!
Bon ben finalement nous avons réussis à déposer notre demande à Kunming! OUFFF.
Le policier fut très compréhensif (à la vue de notre permis Tibétain) et n'as pas refusé tout de suite en prétextant ce délais d'une semaine.
On peux désormais dire que l'on peux prolonger son visa sous ces conditions :
Grosses villes, pas d'histoire qu'ils ne peuvent pas 7 jours avant la date d'expiration mais tout de même 1 semaine de délais pour faire le visa!!!!
Petites villes, pas moyen de déposer sa demande plus de 7 jours avant la date d'expiration mais visa prêt le jour même!
Maintenant nous voila bloqués à Kunming pour 1 semaine, on a déjà explorés la région... A ce propos, impossible d'accéder à Dequin en ce moment, la route est fermée pour cause de rénovation.
Shanghai, c'est trop loin en train et trop cher en avion, décidément!
Quant à notre transport à Lhassa, tout est full, ça doit être EuroDisney Lhassa...
De Kunming, ca prend 4 jours en train et 1500RMB en hard bed alors que l'avion c'est 1600RMB et quelques heures... Dommage.
Tu dis Tibet Lhasa full en ce moment, ce qui veut dire pas de permis ou pas de places en train ?
Juillet aout, c'est impossible partout !
Et les chinois de + en + nombreux à prendre des vacances
merci pour la réponse, nous sommes en partance pour ce trip
La plus grande des misères est de ce sentir misérable
Proverbe tibétain
c est pas impossible avec une agence de voyage...c est pas le permis le plus difficille c est le prix de l agence qui propose le tour qui est irréaliste...
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I need to apply for a new eTA for Canada.
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I contacted Avis Canada, and they told me a credit card is absolutely required. I asked my bank for a credit card (a *real* credit card), but they only offered me a deferred debit card.
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I’ll explain my situation.
Unfortunately, I lost my passport, and I only realized it two weeks before my departure for a humanitarian mission in Libya. I’m a nurse, and this mission really means a lot to me.
First, I applied for an emergency passport, but it was denied by the Val-d'Oise prefecture on the grounds that a planned humanitarian mission wasn’t considered an urgent reason.
So, I submitted a biometric passport application on July 20th. Since then, the tracking has been stuck, and the town hall can’t (or won’t) give me any clear information. Every time I call, I get a different story. The last update I received was that the passport had been produced since July 23rd with a status of "about to be shipped," but nothing since then.
I’ve managed to push my departure back to next Tuesday at the latest, but I’m starting to really panic.
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