(April 8 2016) The General Consulate of Italy in Chongqing and VisaMetric opened in Chengdu the first of 11 new visa request centers for Italy in China. The Chengdu center will be officially inaugurated by the Ambassador of Italy in China, Ettore Francesco Sequi, on April 26th. Centers are also opened in Hangzhou and Xi’an, which will be followed by the second new center of southwest China, which will be established in Kunming in April. The two new Chengdu and Kunming visa centers of southwest China’s join the existing four (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing) and the nine that will open soon across China (Xi’an, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Changsha, Fuzhou and Jinan). The new Chengdu visa center will organize shipments of passports to the Consulate in order to reduce transit time. Accredited travel agencies for Ads visa (the visa for tourist groups) will also be able to choose to continue to collect the passports to the General Consulate of Italy in Chongqing or collect them from the visa center that will be more comfortable to them. (Red)
