Visa Applications

Our next step was to obtain documentation from China (evidence of permission to come to China and work). These documents were received by Courier from Provo. We then completed our part of the visa application form and off we went to the Chinese Consulate in downtown Calgary. It looked much like the Canadian Passport office with many people waiting holding their number designating their turn. We sat by a Chinese lady who saw our paper work and asked what we were doing. She had been an English teacher in China for a number of years before coming to Calgary.

The closing time was about to expire but we were called just in time and submitted our paper work. The next step is to pick up our passports from the consulate, hopefully with our visa endorsed.

We had not seen the Calgary Stampede Parade for a number of years so decided to attend - a couple of parade photographs are attached.