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AIT uses booth to promote visa-free entry to US (2012/10/21)
 
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AIT uses booth to promote visa-free entry to US (2012/10/21)

Starting from next month Taiwanese citizens will be able to travel to the United States without a visa. Ahead of the launch, the American Institute in Taiwan hit the streets to promote the new program.

A crowd gathers in front of this department store, not for a year-end sale, but to learn more about going to America visa-free. They are visiting a booth set up by the American Institute in Taiwan.

Questions are immediately answered by workers who speak Chinese and English. The de facto embassy also has personnel hand out marketing materials.

There is a computer at the stand so people can apply for their visa on-site. Some brought their credit cards and passports then got in line.

Mr. Yuan
It’s convenient, says this man. It should have been this way in the past. Before I didn’t want to wait in line for a visa, so I haven’t gone in many years.

Mark Zimmer
AIT Spokesman
Our visa officials felt we could use these booths to introduce this system, says AIT spokesman Mark Zimmer. We welcome Taiwanese to come to the United States for travel.

People who experienced the long, difficult process of applying for a U.S. visa were moved by the AIT’s new proactive approach. The booths were open for two days and may return in the future.
 
     
     
 
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AIT擺攤

推廣11月上路的赴美免簽，美國在台協會AIT繼昨晚饒河街夜市擺攤宣傳後，今天下午選在忠孝東路上的百貨公司門口繼續擺攤，AIT不僅派出美女領事官現場發放傳單，還準備電腦提供民眾現場申請。

百貨公司門前人擠人圍成一團，這可不是為了週年慶搶優惠，而是衝著赴美免簽證而來的，因為AIT在這擺起詢問攤位。

有疑問馬上說明，不用怕英文不好，講國語也可以，AIT官員甚至主動出擊，派出混血美女領事官和發言人逢人就發免美簽ＤＭ。

攤位上還有電腦，讓民眾當場可以上網申請免美簽，上年紀的民眾，帶著信用卡，護照聞風而來，排隊等申請。

[[民眾 袁先生]]
“方便啊本來應該這樣子，以前我們去排隊等(簽證) ，好像所以我不要去好多年沒去”

[[AIT發言人 金明]]
“我們的簽證官的想法(擺攤宣傳)， 藉這個機會介紹這個系統，歡迎台灣人都來美國旅遊”

比起過去，得親自到ＡＩＴ排隊辦簽證，台灣民眾認為這次AIT主動出擊很貼心，而兩天擺攤宣傳免美簽，也讓AIT認為成效不錯，不排除未來在週末還會繼續擺攤宣傳赴美免簽證。
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