Dave Crocker [mailto://dcrocker@xxxxxxxx] writes: > On 8/24/2010 8:28 AM, Mary Barnes wrote: > > My question then is whether you tell them at border control that you > are > > attending a meeting or whether you are there on vacation. I am > unfortunately > > not a good liar ;) > > > Let me get this straight. You are going to go to China and you are > /not/ going > to do ANY site-seeing? If the answer is yes, I think you have deeper > problems > than the visa... > My thoughts, exactly. > If you are doing some site-seeing, you are a tourist. Saying you are a > tourist > is, therefore, not lying. > > Are you planning on making sales pitches, signing contracts, getting > paid by > locals for work, writing code? The concern for business visas is that > conduct > of these sorts of business activities. That is, commerce. Merely having > conversation that are work-related is not (really) conducting business. This is just what the Chinese Embassy told me when I asked before my first visit... ... _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf