CIBTvisas is a registered agent with the Chinese consulate as a non-governmental visa expediting service. The CIBTvisas service fee for managing your visa application starts at at £205.00. To apply for a visa in person visit the consulate website. You will be required to make an appointment to submit your visa application in person and will not be allowed to submit your application without an appointment. The consular fee starts at £140.00.

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Only CIBTvisas Offers These Services

  • We manage your application for you. A CIBTvisas visa expert will manage everything for you including a complete review of your documents, scheduling of your fingerprint submission appointment, and the pickup and return to you of your visa and important documents from the Visa Application Centre.
  • We will schedule a fingerprint submission appointment for you. Once your application materials are complete and received at our office, CIBTvisas will schedule an appointment for you to provide fingerprints at a Chinese Visa Application Service Centre in London, Manchester, or Edinburgh. When you get to the Visa Application Centre for your scheduled appointment, a CIBTvisas representative will escort you to the CIBTvisas area where you will be checked in and attended to as soon as possible.
  • Our visa experts are available Monday - Friday. If you have questions, our visa experts are available by phone or email so you can the information you need.
  • We send you personalized emails and give you secure access to see the status of your order 24x7. We give you a secure login in to see the exact status of your order so you can see it anytime 24x7. We send you emails updating you so you know when we received your documents, when they were sent to the embassy, when they are expected back to the embassy and when they have been shipped to you.


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