Please speed up your visa application!
请加速办理你的签证申请！
I was eventually granted an tourist visa before departure.
我终于在出发前获得了旅游签证。
There is a tightening of US visa requirements.
最近对赴美签证的要求提高了。
I need to apply for a visa to visit the United States.
我需要申请一个签证去美国旅游。
My visa expired, so I had to leave the country.
我的签证过期了，所以我不得不离开这个国家。
She was denied a visa due to a criminal record.
因为有犯罪记录，她被拒签了。
The visa process can be quite time-consuming.
签证流程可能会很耗时。
I have a multiple-entry visa, so I can enter the country several times.
我有多次入境签证，所以我可以多次进入这个国家。
The visa application requires two recent passport-sized photos.
签证申请需要两张近期的护照尺寸照片。
I need to extend my visa as my stay has been prolonged.
我需要延长我的签证，因为我的停留时间延长了。
The visa officer asked me about my purpose of visiting the country.
签证官问我访问这个国家的目的。
She received a work visa that allows her to stay for two years.
她得到了一份允许她停留两年的工作签证。
Visa regulations vary from country to country.
签证规定因国家而异。
Signs of positivity – PolicySeveral measures to boost tourism were recently announced by the State Council on Sept 27, including optimizing visa and customs clearance policies, increasing international flight capacity and routes to key destinations, and improving inbound tourism products and information services for foreign visitors.
积极的迹象——政策国务院最近于9月27日宣布了几项促进旅游业发展的措施，包括优化签证和清关政策，增加国际航班容量和飞往关键目的地的航线，以及改善外国游客的入境旅游产品和信息服务。
Tencent Holdings announced on Thursday that it will fully open Weixin Pay to international card organizations like Mastercard, Visa, JCB and Discover Global Network, so as to further improve overseas users' digital payment experience in China.
腾讯控股周四宣布，将向万事达、Visa、JCB和Discover Global Network等国际卡组织全面开放微信支付，以进一步改善海外用户在中国的数字支付体验。
The pace of resumption of flights that connect China with Europe and the United States has been relatively slow due to several factors such as air rights, visa issuance and airport support capability, China Southern said.
中国南方航空表示，由于航空权、签证发放和机场支持能力等因素，连接中国与欧洲和美国的航班恢复速度相对较慢。
Wanda Group, Hisense Group, Vivo and dairy company Mengniu are four official Chinese sponsors of FIFA, while Wanda has become one of FIFA's seven corporate partners, along with Coca-Cola, Adidas, Hyundai-Kia, Qatar Airways, Qatar Energy and VISA.
万达集团、海信集团、维梧和乳业公司蒙牛是国际足联的四家中国官方赞助商，万达与可口可乐、阿迪达斯、现代起亚、卡塔尔航空、卡塔尔能源和VISA一起成为国际足联的七家企业合作伙伴之一。
YU: Innovation is the foundation of a vibrant digital economy and a core focus for Visa.
俞：创新是充满活力的数字经济的基础，也是Visa的核心关注点。
Visa opened its Beijing Innovation Center in 2019.
Visa国际组织于2019年在北京开设了创新中心。
Throughout the pandemic, the Visa Beijing Innovation Center has continued to host partners virtually.
在整个疫情期间，Visa北京创新中心继续以虚拟方式接待合作伙伴。
YU: We applaud China for its dual carbon goals and believe Visa has the opportunity to leverage its role in commerce to help inspire and empower sustainable living and support the global transition to a low-carbon, sustainable economy.
余：我们赞扬中国的双碳目标，并相信Visa有机会利用其在商业中的作用，帮助激励和增强可持续生活，支持全球向低碳、可持续经济转型。
In August, we launched Visa Eco Benefits in the Asia-Pacific region to promote sustainability-focused solutions that will help Visa cardholders across the region better understand the environmental impact of their day-to-day payments.
8月，我们在亚太地区推出了Visa生态福利，以推广以可持续发展为重点的解决方案，帮助该地区的Visa持卡人更好地了解其日常支付对环境的影响。
YU: At Visa, we believe everyone should have equal, full access to products and services that enable them to send and receive digital payments.
余：在Visa，我们相信每个人都应该平等、完全地使用产品和服务，使他们能够发送和接收数字支付。
Over the years, Visa has worked with a range of financial, technology and industry partners in China to support social imperatives around financial literacy, financial inclusion and rural vitalization.
多年来，Visa与中国的一系列金融、技术和行业合作伙伴合作，支持围绕金融知识、金融包容性和农村振兴的社会需求。
As a purpose-driven company, Visa is committed to delivering long-term value for all of our stakeholders, giving back to the local communities in which we operate.
作为一家目标驱动型公司，Visa致力于为我们所有的利益相关者提供长期价值，回馈我们运营的当地社区。
Since August, visas for both individual and group tours to Macao from the Chinese mainland are being restored in phases, as the country sees flattened curves in COVID-19 cases.
The team helped the construction personnel apply for visas, undergo nucleic acid tests and health checks, and equipped them with medical supplies.
We are disappointed by this unfair and arbitrary action to restrict visas of our employees who work tirelessly to contribute to technological innovation in the US and around the world.
"Compared with its major competitor Mastercard, Visa Inc made a different choice regarding its push into China.
Alfred F. Kelly Jr, chairman and chief executive officer of Visa, said last year the leading global payments technology company has applied for a bank card clearing license in China as a wholly owned foreign enterprise.
Visa expanded its Beijing office to a new building and opened its China Innovation Center in the capital city on March 22, 2019, in an effort to encourage clients and partners — including banks, merchants and fintech companies — to develop solutions for customer pain points.
Chinese citizens can apply for electronic tourism visas for trips to Turkey.
"If there are any significant changes, it might have bigger impact on visa issuance policies and air travel market demand," he said.
Driven by globalization, more convenient visa access and increasing transport links to various global destinations, the frequency of vacations abroad will increase, said Fan Jinsong, founder and chairman of Anhui Korrun.
Before the visa exemption announced in June 2016, Morocco received an average of less than 20,000 Chinese tourists per year.
"As we are engaged in the artificial intelligence and agriculture sectors, some of our employees could not obtain US visas recently," said Gong.
More than 20 major international institutions including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber have signed up to get involved with Libra, which Facebook will unveil next week, and which it hopes could transform the international payment system.
Facebook is taking the lead on building Libra and its underlying technology; its more than two dozen partners — including PayPal, Uber, Spotify, Visa and Mastercard — will help fund, build and govern the system.
"According to Spring Tour, the travel arm of Shanghai-based Spring Group, the improvement in visa policies, transportation and payment channels has made Yangon a popular destination for Chinese tourists.
Visa is getting capabilities and infrastructure ready to participate in China's mobile payment marketVisa Inc has applied for a bank card clearing license in China as a wholly owned foreign enterprise, said Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. , CEO of the leading global payments technology company.
This choice is different from its major competitor Mastercard Inc, which is resuming a push into the country by forming a joint venture with China's online clearing house NetsUnion Clearing Corp. "Our competitors will do what they think is best; we are going to do what we think is best for Visa," Kelly said on the sidelines of the annual China Development Forum recently.
"Visa is spending a lot of time thinking about what it will deliver.
In an interview with China Daily, the CEO shared his thoughts on a number of topics, such as Visa's application for China market entry and plans for local business development.
How is Visa's application for direct access to China's bank card clearing market progressing?
"The approvals of business and tourism visa have become tighter, and travel demand growth is likely to slow down," Lin said.
Earlier this year there was a perception that visas were getting harder (to obtain).
With this policy, Chinese travelers can step out to explore the world, and more and more destinations now provide better visa policies for Chinese travelers.
Experts say the boom in Chinese tourists' travels to Japan is due to the rising willingness among Chinese residents to travel, easing of visa requirements, and favorable duty-free shopping policy.
"Some of the brands sold in Japan are cheaper than those sold in China due to the tax rebates, and it's also getting much easier to apply for a Japanese visa," she said, adding the environment there is very clean.
UnionPay, a card association similar to Visa and Mastercard, first became available in Finland in 2010.
UnionPay's UK expansion signifies its ambition to rival Visa and Mastercard for global business.
Luckily, UnionPay has already built up a certain level of reputation in the UK and across Europe, as more and more retailers have started accepting UnionPay cards to attract high-spending Chinese outbound tourists who do not have Visa or Mastercard.
UnionPay card numbers quickly grew, and by 2016 the number of new cards issued by UnionPay comprised 54.9 percent of the global total, which is more than Mastercard and Visa.
In addition, business and tourism visa approvals have become tighter, which may lead to slower travel demand growth.
"Recently we've seen students coming here facing more visa challenges, more immigration questions, so even if we embrace the openness, there are barriers that already have an impact on what we're doing," Matesic added.
Liu Anyu, a lecturer in hospitality at the University of Surrey, said: “Compared with Visa and Mastercard, Alipay does not charge the commission fee for consumption, only the exchange rate loss, if any.
Other American companies on the 2018 ranking include Visa Inc and Charles Schwab.
Nowadays, Chinese citizens holding national passports traveling overseas are able to enjoy visa exemption or visa upon arrival in 68 countries and regions.
The top 10 in order of ranking are Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Tencent, Facebook, Visa, McDonald's, Alibaba and AT&T.
The Development Research Center of the State Council signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based payment technology company Visa Inc on Saturday, in a move to leverage digital technology innovation to enhance inclusive finance in China.
Al Kelly, CEO of Visa Inc, said China is a leader in financial inclusion, with remarkable progress in bringing financial services to the population.
DRC and Visa will work together to understand the challenges, progress and innovations to date, and recommend paths forward, Kelly said.
Growing disposable income and favorable visa policies have pushed the number of outbound Chinese travelers to new heights.
Weiyi Ma, assistant professor of human development and family sciences at the University of Arkansas, who is working in the US on a H-1B visa, conducted the study with neuroscience researchers from China's Ministry of Education and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu.
In 2016, 3 million Chinese travelers went to the United States, up 15 percent year-on-year, thanks to the favorable 10-year multiple-entry visas that the two countries granted to each other's citizens.
British Airways' chief executive has called on the government of the United Kingdom to relax visa requirements for Chinese business and tourist travelers.
"Now, we need the British government to take urgent action on its visa policy by making it easier for Chinese businesses and tourists to come to the UK," Cruz said.
The tourism and convention board also discussed with the US Department of State the possibility of increasing the number of visas issued to Chinese travelers.
"Using the renminbi as a settlement currency, as well as providing more convenient tax and visa facilities, can prompt more Chinese companies to invest in BRICS," Huang said.
黄说：“使用人民币作为结算货币，以及提供更加便捷的税收和签证设施，可以激励更多中国公司在金砖国家投资。”
They have visas of almost 40 countries and can arrive at any spot, wherever the client needs, in a short time, Cao said.
""When conflict came to Singapore in 1942, Mr Parkane Hwang from the Bank of China's Singapore branch decamped and sort a visa to travel to Australia to establish a branch of the Bank of China in Sydney," Lowe told Xinhua.
"One can only imagine it must have been a difficult and stressful time, but true to Australia's welcoming nature, especially for those in need, the visa was granted.
And visas are now more supportive of foreigners starting up in China.
If you have graduated from a Chinese university, you can apply for an entrepreneur visa with letters of support for your application (in the prescribed certificate format) from your financiers, university, startup incubator or the industrial park you are based in, along with a copy of your viable business plan.
The new policy announced this year grants a two- to five-year visa for fresh Chinese university graduates from other countries with viable business plans or demonstrable entrepreneurial potential.
For example, those with startups in such areas can apply for a permanent resident card after achieving 70 points in China's point-based visa system.
But in cities like Shanghai, you can apply for entrepreneur visa if you have graduated from a Chinese university, produce a financial guarantee and demonstrate a viable business plan.
When your application is approved, an S2 visa valid for up to six months will be issued.
There is not much difference in government policy in terms of sectors or industries, but you will be more likely to receive an entrepreneur visa if your business plan or startup is related to your academic background.
Versatile flights, convenient visa policies and advanced technology are making travel easier, and this is helping to fuel the growth in companies and websites specializing in the sector.
"With trips fueled by an open visa policy and emerging budget airlines, this is an industry that is changing fast, and presenting opportunities and challenges," she added.
“得益于开放的签证政策和新兴的低成本航空公司，这个行业正在迅速变化，并带来了机遇和挑战，”她补充道。
"Since the end of 2016, Chinese tourists can obtain a "visa on arrival" at UAE international airports.
Earlier in the week, the UAE General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs said up to 265,698 Chinese tourists visited Dubai in the past five months since UAE began granting visa on arrival for Chinese citizens.
During Li's stay in Switzerland, China announced a unilateral visa-free treatment to Switzerland, and the Swiss side more visa facilitation for Chinese citizens as well as Chinese enterprises investing in Switzerland.
For instance, the US should make it easier for Chinese citizens to get visas while China also needs to make it easier for Americans to come, he said.
Despite some current issues such as those related to visas and lack of direct flight services between the countries, the big Indian presence at the Canton fair demonstrates the impetus for strong India-China friendship, the Chinese diplomat noted.
Facing weak global demand for production, consumption and investment, and "decoupling" or "de-risking" moves from certain countries, China has taken further steps to help companies secure orders and expand their markets, including hosting trade expos, increasing the numbers of international flights and facilitating visas for foreign businesspeople.
We hope that in the future, visa issuance and the freedom of movement between the two countries can return to the levels before the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the meeting, departments including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Development and Reform Commission conducted an in-depth interpretation of the guideline and responded to concerns raised by foreign investors, including facilitating visas for foreigners coming to China, enhancing services for foreign investment projects and reinforcing intellectual property protection in government procurement of pharmaceuticals and medical consumables.
So far, the task force has assisted the firm in obtaining industrial product production licenses, as well as visas for senior-level foreign staffers, Turrina said.
However, China will take further steps to help companies secure orders and expand their markets, including hosting trade expos, increasing numbers of international flights and facilitating visas for foreign businesspeople, Li said.
Since the start of 2023, executives from multinational corporations, such as Siemens AG, ASML Holding NV, Tesla Inc and Visa Inc, have been engaging in a notable trend of consecutive visits to China, displaying their strong enthusiasm to explore and expand investments in the Chinese market, she added.
Other possible reasons include worsening geopolitical tensions between the US and China, US visa policies, personal safety considerations and increased competition from UK, Canadian, Australian, Singaporean and Chinese universities.
On April 25, the General Office of the State Council, China's Cabinet, published a guideline containing 18 specific policy measures, including the orderly resumption of live trade exhibitions in China, facilitating visas for overseas business people and continued support for automobile exports.
As CEO of LifePlus, an international education institution, Martin Klopper, from the United Kingdom, was delighted to obtain a multiple-entry visa for China this year to attend conferences and investigate the market.
It eliminates the need for holders to possess visas when visiting other APEC economies, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A new ferry terminal at which business representatives can get visas upon arrival to attend the 133rd China Import and Export Fair will be open during the event, according to a senior official in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.
Chinese embassies and consulates globally are putting in extra hours and workforce to process visa applications, which are rising since China resumed pre-COVID visa policies, said Wu Xi, an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Having an official invitation from the Canton Fair, one can apply for a visa at any Chinese embassy or consulate, Wu added.
Families of participants are also welcome to come on tourist visas.
For holders of virtual APEC Business Travel Cards, China will grant business visas free of charge until the card comes into effect on May 1, said Wu.
Additionally, Chang said Hong Kong could consider a pilot program in the GBA for issuing special working visas for mainland residents who are willing to work in its Northern Metropolis — a region that the special administrative region government strives to turn into an innovation and technology hub near its border with Shenzhen.
Given the difficulties faced by enterprises in going abroad to participate in exhibitions, such as rising costs, visa application difficulties, and increased uncertainties in some countries, the CCPIT will take the initiative to communicate and coordinate with relevant ministries and commissions, release risk warning messages timely, and hold pre-exhibition meetings for projects heading for specific countries to help enterprises reduce risks and uncertainties.
The document eliminates the need for holders to possess visas when visiting other APEC economies, said China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In addition, 12.67 million certificates were issued for travel to and from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, an increase of 837.7 percent, and 122,000 visas and residence permits were issued to foreigners, up 33.1 percent.
Seven member countries of RCEP have accepted self-printing certificates of origin from China's export enterprises by the end of 2022, which benefits 90 percent of the export value of the total exports with RCEP visas.
Tourism:xa0Availability of flights, visas key in recoveryChina's outbound tourism market is showing good growth momentum and is expected to make a robust recovery amid the nation's optimized COVID-19 response measures and relaxed travel restrictions.
Xu said that consultancies for international trips and searches for visa information, flight tickets and hotels surged on the platform after authorities announced on Dec 26 the downgrading of COVID-19 management from Class A to Class B starting on Jan 8.
"Searches for visa information increased fivefold on the platform that day.
Visa consultancies rose by 100 percent for two consecutive days from Dec 27, it said.
Figures from online travel agency Fliggy show that searches for international flight tickets on the platform increased eightfold after the policy adjustments on Dec 27 and views on its digital visa center increased 8.3-fold year-on-year.
Gu Huimin, a professor at Beijing International Studies University's School of Tourism Sciences, told Beijing Business Today that outbound tourism may see the first wave of recovery during the Spring Festival holiday later this month, but the recovery will also depend on the epidemic situation and the availability of flights and visas.
Thousands of miles away, Roy van den Hurk, general manager of Theland Global R&D at Milk New Zealand Dairy, is busy applying for his visa to attend the coming 2022 expo.