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我很高兴地宣布：今天我们要重新开启我们的美国使馆签证处博客，作为申请人获取在华签证申请资讯的新来源。对于如何申请签证感到困惑？期待着作为投资者访问美国？担心签证面谈时要带什么材料？这些只是我们将要在这里用简洁明了的(希望是好玩的)博文回答的问题中的几个而已。在我们开始谈论签证事宜之前，先让我来做下自我介绍。

我叫白智理，担任驻华领事事务公使衔参赞，但是请别担心我的这个长头衔：你们就把我看成是“签证老王”就行。我在签证领域工作很长时间了，准确来说有25个年头了。和骆大使一样，我也来自华盛顿州，然而在我的职业生涯里，大部分时光都是在亚洲度过的。这是我第二次来北京任职，就生活与工作而言，我认为，中国是世界上最令人兴奋激动的国家之一。在我不忙着出差去访问各个驻华领馆并前往视察领事及签证处工作的时候，我很喜欢去参观中国众多的美丽寺庙，博物馆以及旅游胜地，并且喜欢去了解中国丰富的文化遗产。我也喜爱技术，喜欢学习研究最新小玩意。这就是为什么我一直在鼓励我们所有的领馆来使用新工具，比如社交媒体，与我们的签证申请人进行沟通和交流。

现在让我们谈谈你们大家齐聚于此的原因 - 那就是要成功地申请一个美国签证。如果你正打算申请一个签证，那你可不是一个人！仅仅去年一年间，就有大约150万中国公民在驻华使领馆申请了签证。鉴于在华赴美签证需求量如此之高，你可以相信人们对签证信息的需求量就更大了。这就让我们回到了为什么我要写这篇博客 – 我们每个月将就申请人最关心的话题提供一次相应的信息，目的就是帮助你们在申请赴美签证时获得成功。

然而如果我们得不到你的回复，这就不能称之为社交 媒体了。所以请回复我们的博文，留下你的评论与问题。每次我都会挑选一条来书写一篇新博文，并尽我所能给出最好的回答。

今天就先写到这里。感谢阅读。下一篇博文我要和你谈谈应该行前多久计划申请签证，到时见吧。“签证老王”先下线啦！

白智理

领事事务公使衔参赞

Blog Introduction

Hello Weibo Friends!

I’m happy to announce that today we are re-launching our blog as a new source of information and news about visas in China.  Confused about how to apply for a visa?  Looking to visit the U.S. as an investor?  Worried about what documents to bring to your visa interview?  These are just a few of the questions we will be answering here with short, simple and (hopefully fun!) blog posts.  So before we get started talking about visas, let me introduce myself.

I’m Chuck Bennett, Minister Counselor for Consular Affairs in China, but don’t worry about the long title: you all can just think of me as the “qianzheng laowang.”  I’ve been working in this business a long time – about 25 years to be exact.  Like Ambassador Locke, I am from the state of Washington, however, I’ve spent most of my career in Asia. This is my second tour in Beijing, and I consider China to be one of the world’s most exciting countries in which to live and work.   When I’m not busy traveling around China to visit our consulates and oversee all of our consular and visa offices, I enjoy visiting China’s many beautiful temples, museums and tourist sites  and learning about the country’s rich cultural heritage.   I also love technology and reading up on the newest gadgets, which is why I am encouraging all of our consulates to utilize new tools – such as social media – to communicate with our visa applicants.

Now let’s get to the reason you all are really here – to successfully apply for an American visa.  If you are planning to apply for a visa, you’re not alone!  Just over the past year, roughly 1.5 million other Chinese applied for visas throughout all our offices in China.  With demand for visas in China that high, you can bet the demand for information is even higher.  And that bring us back to why I’m writing this blog – to fill you in once a month on the topics which we believe our applicants care about most and, ultimately, to help you be successful when you apply for a U.S. visa. 

This wouldn’t be social media, however, if we didn’t hear from you!  So please reply to our posts with your comments and questions.  I’ll pick one every time I write a new post and respond to it as best as I can.

That’s it for today.  Thanks for reading and see you next time for a post on how soon before you travel you should plan on applying for your visa.  “Qianzheng Laowang” signing off!

Chuck Bennett

Minister Counselor for Consular Affairs