Ministers have tried to address criticism from business and travel leaders about slow visa processing by sending 150 extra consular staff to China to handle the busy summer period.
The Heathrow queues fiasco prompted the CBI employers’ group and tour operators to put pressure on the government to act on the issue of visas – the other big bugbear of travellers heading for the UK.
The new deployment – formalised by Damian Green, immigration minister, during a trip to China last month – is an attempt to lessen delays after an 80 per cent increase in demand for visas from Chinese tourists between 2009 and 2011.
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