In September 2026, a British physicist posted an update to a months-long Reddit thread, writing that he finally had a K visa and that the visa “does exist.” The process had taken roughly five months from application to passport collection, although he acknowledged that part of the delay was his own doing, since one of his degree certificates had to be reissued and an embassy email sat unnoticed in his spam folder. The application itself, as he described it, was simple; there was no interview, no invitation letter, and no…
One Year On, China’s K Visa Remains an Opaque Promise
