我是早上9点到的上海南站,直接打了辆出租车到远东国际广场,33元,大概9:30到的领事馆大楼,到了22楼,果然如论坛上有的人说的那样,瑞士签证的人很少(我一整个上午就只看到2个学生签证的,剩余大概有20来个商务签证)。门口阿姨问我是干嘛的,得知我是PhD+陪读签证,直接让我在门口等,我很纳闷,不需要领号?阿姨说学生签证除了里面的一个人之外就我一个,她记得住,不需要号码,没办法,和我太太就在那儿等呗。
就这样好几个和我一起等着办商务签证的进进出出,大概半个小时后,阿姨猛吼了一句,“那个办博士签证的”,我一听到我了,一阵开心,结果阿姨给我一张号,“博士签证属于商务签证,不是学生,拿号等候”,郁闷,白排了那么久,跟阿姨商量是否可以先放我进去,未果。
终于轮到我了,早些时候有论坛朋友好意提醒我,2号窗口MM是新手,不要选她,很慢的,我牢记此警告,结果进去后才发现,自己压根就没得选,哪个窗口报到你号码你就得去那个,而且总共也只有2个窗口,我去的时候另外一个窗口好像还没工作,只有到2号了。MM果然慢,什么都不太知道,说要去问问领事是否能办陪读,结果领事在开会,让我等;不过由于我是按学生签证准备的材料,突然换成商务签证,不知道需要哪些材料,一下就乱了套,MM最后还催我快点:),郁闷。幸喜的是虽然不知道能否陪读签出去,还是同意让我太太递交了申请。
等我办好出来后都快12点了,耗了我2个半小时。期间要注意的事项有:
1、 领事馆从9点到12点工作,而且学生签证速度巨慢,要办学生签证的一定要早,在我前面有个安徽MM8点不到就到了,结果和我一起差不多快12点才办好,而且一上午就只办了2个学生签证;
2、 博士因为有工资,属于商务签证,读博士的一定要注意了,因此要跟门口阿姨说清楚,不要像我那样不知道,在门口苦等那么久,商务签证比学生签证快多了;
3、 资料准备要充分,只要你觉得可能派得上用场的资料都要准备,以我为例,我把当初学校给我的邮寄录取通知书的信封带上,结果果然派上用场了。如果什么东西忘记带了,在3楼商务中心可以复印,不过巨贵,2元钱一页纸,我有的资料就忘记复印,24页,收了我48快,简直就是抢钱;
4、 网上说的资料复印件要3份,结果基本上都只收了2份。不要向我那样自作多情的分类,我把所有资料都分成了3份分开,结果窗口MM要求一样一样的递交,我又手忙脚乱的重新找复印件;
5、 申请表上的照片事先贴好,免得里面再去现贴,麻烦;
6、 办理陪读签证的2个人一个号,一起递交,而不需要分开申请。
2007年6月6日
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瑞士博士和陪读签证过程及注意事项 |
2007年5月30日
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马克吐温语录 |
无意中搜索到这样一个网站,收集了马克吐温的一些经典语录,感兴趣的可以看看。试摘录几句跟金融相关的如下:
BANKER
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
BUSINESS
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
Let your sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight--this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one--this is business.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
- Following the Equator
The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right--as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
- Speech, 3/30/1901
ECONOMY
It isn't the sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name.
MATHEMATICS
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
STATISTICS
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."