Sorry for top post but: Are there not other Apache EU projects suffering the same effects?
Louis On 22 October 2012 22:34, Peter Junge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have heard several Chinese speakers who want to present at the ApacheCon > EU 2012 are having problems with getting their visa in time. > > Indeed, the recent situation was very bad because the German embassy doesn't > have the resources to handle the strong demand for German visas in China, > e.g. they have only two telephone lines to make appointments for submitting > visa applications. > > Just last week the German embassy started to outsource the visa application > process to a private agency which will certainly make everything easier, > e.g. they are checking each application for completeness and correctness > while previously visa applications were declined deliberately without giving > any information about what went wrong. > > The website of the visa agency can be found here: > https://cn.tlscontact.com/cnBJS2de/splash.php > The service is available in English, Chinese and German. > > Additional information from the German embassy (in Chinese) can be found > here: > http://www.china.diplo.de/Vertretung/china/zh/01-service/visa/tls/0-s.html > > Hope it's not to late. > > Peter
