<strong>First things first: LTL can of course still offer visa invitations for all it's full time students - nothing to worry about. <a href="www.livethelanguage.cn/contact-us/">Contact us</a> for details</strong>

However, for everyone else, it is the beginning of July and it is finally time for the new visa regulations to be implemented. As some of you might already have been aware of, the Chinese government and the Public Security Bureau, specifically the department of immigration, have been thinking of changing the visa regulations much more than usual since last year. The date given for the visa changes implementation was the 1st of July, 2013.

Recently the World of Chinese online and offline magazine released a <a title="World of Chinese - Visa Changes" href="http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2013/07/visa-pocolypse/">post</a> about some of the new proposed regulations and the changes made to the visa types. You can read more about it there and also check out the visa table they included (can be seen here).
<div><dl id="attachment_5115"><dt><a href="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20130702_VisaChangesWorldOfChinese.jpg"><img alt="Visa Changes" src="http://ltl-chinois.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/20130702_VisaChangesWorldOfChinese-186x300.jpg" width="186" height="300" /></a></dt><dd>Visa Changes</dd></dl></div>
Our visa specialist called the Public Security Bureau to confirm the rumors, however no comments was given about the changes, so it is only left to wait and see how harshly or not it will be implemented when foreigners try to come to China for different reasons, applying for different visa types.

We will keep you all posted!

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