It's more effective if you write to your MP at House of Commons SW1A
0AA or google for their email address.
Your MP will then write to the FCO and get a Ministerial reply.
Regards
Julian
On 8 February 2016 at 11:09, Kate Hammond
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> Dear All
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> There is a page on the Chinese Embasssy web site about group visas.
> http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng//xnyfgk/t514403.htm
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> However for tourist visas this increase in price was a reciprocal agreement
> made in January by Philip Hammond, Secretary of State, between the foreign
> office and China and obviously the implications for students was totally
> missed. We have written to him to ask if he could go back to the Chinese
> and come up with a reciprocal agreement about student cost for tourist
> visas.
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> I suggest everyone who is affected writes to him. Email
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> Happy New Year
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> Kate
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> From: Mandarin Chinese Teaching
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Theresa
> Munford
> Sent: 08 February 2016 09:59
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: China VISA price increase
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> Dear All
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> Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but our trip organizer (the
> Bath Sino Education Trust) says that they are applying for a group visa that
> works out at £80 per head.
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> Happy New Year!
> Theresa
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>> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 12:38:28 +0000
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: China VISA price increase
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> Here is the link to the new schedule of prices.
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>> http://www.visaforchina.org/LON_EN/upload/Attach/mrbj/289577.pdf
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mandarin Chinese Teaching
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marcus Reoch
>> Sent: 06 February 2016 12:21
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: China VISA price increase
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>> Hi penny
>> Thanks for this.
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>> I cant see anything online about it. Do you have a web link about it?
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>> Thanks
>> Best
>> Marcus Reoch
>> Dragons in Europe
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> > On 6 Feb 2016, at 11:05, Penny Lynch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> > If you are planning a trip to China soon, you may not have noticed that
>> > the visa fee for British passport holders has recently increased from £96 to
>> > an eye-watering £151.
>> > You might need to adjust your costings accordingly, I know I did!
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad
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