China Visa
Really easy and straightforward to get in Tehran (Iran).
Probably one of the easiest and cheapest places to obtain the Chinese visa. It was not in the plan to apply for this visa in Tehran, but as the embassy is really close to the Uzbek one, we went there to try our luck and it turned out to be a great decision.
The embassy opens on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 9 to 12 in the morning and a couple of hours in the afternoon. There's a really nice English speaking girl there. No queues no waiting at all.
You need a letter from your embassy saying you can go to China (easy to get at the Spanish embassy in Tehran), a couple of pictures , a filled in application from their website and 40 USD to get a single entry 90-day visa.
The most difficult part was the application form. We went to an internet cafe and it was impossible to find the form on the address the girl gave us. Instead, we downloaded one from the Internet and filled it in.
When we went back to the embassy we discovered the applications were not valid. The girls there said we could go to a nearby building where, for a fee, a girl can give us the correct applications and fill them up for us. As we had no choice there we went and after one hour we got our new applications filled in. Back into the embassy and the girl gave us the paper to go to a nearby bank to pay the visa fee and told us to come back in 4 working days.
After 10 days we went back (we were travelling in Iran and we had to wait for the Uzbek visa) we came back and we got our passport with a nice Chinese visa in it.
Note that the embassy keeps your passport for these 4 days, so you better photocopy it together with your Iranian visa (we did that and had no problems travelling 10 days around Iran with copies instead of passport).
Probably one of the easiest and cheapest places to obtain the Chinese visa. It was not in the plan to apply for this visa in Tehran, but as the embassy is really close to the Uzbek one, we went there to try our luck and it turned out to be a great decision.
The embassy opens on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 9 to 12 in the morning and a couple of hours in the afternoon. There's a really nice English speaking girl there. No queues no waiting at all.
You need a letter from your embassy saying you can go to China (easy to get at the Spanish embassy in Tehran), a couple of pictures , a filled in application from their website and 40 USD to get a single entry 90-day visa.
The most difficult part was the application form. We went to an internet cafe and it was impossible to find the form on the address the girl gave us. Instead, we downloaded one from the Internet and filled it in.
When we went back to the embassy we discovered the applications were not valid. The girls there said we could go to a nearby building where, for a fee, a girl can give us the correct applications and fill them up for us. As we had no choice there we went and after one hour we got our new applications filled in. Back into the embassy and the girl gave us the paper to go to a nearby bank to pay the visa fee and told us to come back in 4 working days.
After 10 days we went back (we were travelling in Iran and we had to wait for the Uzbek visa) we came back and we got our passport with a nice Chinese visa in it.
Note that the embassy keeps your passport for these 4 days, so you better photocopy it together with your Iranian visa (we did that and had no problems travelling 10 days around Iran with copies instead of passport).
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