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On April 8, Henan Provincial Visa Application Platform for Chinese Citizen was officially launched in the Asian Economic Development Summit 2019, which means Zhengzhou people would locally apply for a visa rather than go to the embassies in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou.

4月8日，在郑州举行的“2019亚洲经济发展峰会”上，河南省中国公民签证申请受理便利化平台宣布正式上线。这意味着，今后办理签证，或不需要再跑京、沪、广的该国使领馆，郑州人在“家门口”即可申办。

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On April 9, the Platform took the first fingerprint collection on mobile devices. Henan Union Visa Application Service Center invited French visa offices to take on-site fingerprint collection for nearly a hundred citizens for French visa application.

4月9日，河南省中国公民签证申请受理便利化平台首次法国签证移动指纹采集进行，河南联合签证中心邀请法国签证官现场为近百名市民办理移动指纹采集。

This Platform is jointly initiated by China-Asia Economic Development Association, the People’s Government of Zhengzhou, and the Management Committee of Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone, and operated by Henan Union Visa Application Service Co., Ltd.

河南省中国公民签证申请受理便利化平台由中国亚洲经济发展协会、郑州市人民政府、郑州航空港经济综合实验区管委会支持发起，河南联合签证中心有限公司运营。

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The Platform adopts an automatic form filling system, and provides full-work-flow services from policy advisory, document preparation instruction, forms filling, multilingual translation, consular authentication, visa delivery and complaint for the refusal of visas for personal trip of all types.

除了自动填表系统等创新措施外，该平台还实现了因私签证各个种类、签证申请各个环节全覆盖，提供从签证政策咨询、材料准备指导、表格填写、多语种翻译、领事认证、代为送签到拒签申诉等全流程服务。

As the EU Visa Center in Zhengzhou is still in preparation, the platform opens a green channel in Visa Service Center in Beijing for Henan residents who urgently need a visa during the transition period. They invite visa officers for destination countries such as France and the United Kingdom to provide door-to-door fingerprint collection service monthly. So that people can finish their visa application at home. The door-to-door visa services to non-EU tourism countries such as Canada and Australia will also be opened.

由于欧盟郑州签证中心还在筹备中，在过渡期，此平台为急需办理签证的河南居民，在北京签证中心开设了绿色通道，邀请法国、英国等出境目的地大国的签证官，每月定时送服务上门，进行移动指纹采集，当面受理，家门口办结。加拿大、澳大利亚等非欧盟旅游大国上门签证服务也将陆续开通。

At the “Asian Economic Development Summit 2019”, Philippe RIGHINI, First Counselor and Consul General of the French Embassy to China, stated in his speech that he hopes the French Visa Center would be set up in Zhengzhou as soon as possible; Cambodian Ambassador to China Mrs. Khek M. Caimealy Sysoda said that Cambodia is already considering the cooperation with “Henan Visa Application Platform” so as to facilitate the application of the Cambodian visa by the public in Central China.

在“2019亚洲经济发展峰会”上，法国驻华大使馆一等参赞兼总领事李纪飞在致辞中提出，希望尽早开设郑州法国签证中心；柬埔寨驻华大使凯·西索达表示，柬埔寨已在考虑搭上“河南签证申请平台”，以使华中省份公众申请柬埔寨签证便利化。

According to the officer of Henan Union Visa Application Service Center, both French visa and British visa can be applied for in April but are respectively available on April 9 and April 16 via the platform.

据河南联合签证中心负责人介绍，4月份，在该平台可办理签证的有法国和英国，前往法国的签证是4月9日办理，前往英国的签证是4月16日办理。

In addition, for Asian tourist countries that do not adopt the policies of the Visa Center, they have granted the exclusive agency qualification or the priority agency qualification to the Visa Application Platform in Henan according to their Embassy policies. Furthermore, the Platform invites large travel agencies with visa agency qualification to share the office platform, so as to provide applicants with more considerate choices.

此外，对于不实行签证中心政策的亚洲旅游国家，根据使馆政策，有的授予河南签证申请平台独家代办资格，有的授予该平台优先代办资格。并且河南签证申请平台邀请具有签证代办资格的大型旅行社共享办公平台，为申请者提供更齐全的选择。

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Henan Union Visa Application Service Center is located at No. 63 Yuanhang Road, Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone, and it will set up offices in the downtown to facilitate the citizen’s life in the future.

河南联合签证中心位于郑州航空港经济综合实验区远航路63号，为了方便郑州市民办理业务，该中心未来将在市区设置营业网点。