The visa center charges "arbitrary" fees, super fast visa is 8,421 yuan! Who should control the charging standards of the visa center?

Every summer is the peak period for tourism. In 2018, the number of Chinese citizens traveling abroad has reached 149.72 million, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%. If you want to go abroad, a tourist visa is indispensable. If you want a visa, you must apply for one. The center handles and the signing center is an intermediary service organization between the handler and the embassy. It mainly conducts business consultation, material collection and preliminary review, visa retrieval, etc.

At present, the embassy in China mainly outsources visas, focusing on three service providers: VFS Hlobal, TLScontsct and BLS. However, in Beijing, there has been a phenomenon of signing centers charging arbitrary fees. Express delivery of a text message costs 80 yuan. A notification is 20 yuan, printing a page is 10 yuan, taking photos is 40 yuan, VIP service is 390 yuan, and super quick signing is 8,421 yuan. It is simply a sky-high price for signing.

Is this legal? Experts warn that the nature of a market-oriented enterprise does not mean that the visa center has the right to charge arbitrarily.

Qiu Baochang, an expert from the Expert Committee of the Chinese Socialist Association, believes that the visa center has exclusive attributes due to its corporate relationship with the embassy of a specific country, and has actually formed a market dominance monopoly. Taking advantage of this monopoly and exclusive position to implement high and arbitrary charges has violated the relevant provisions of Article 17 of the Anti-Monopoly Law and is illegal. Qiu Baochang suggested that market supervision departments and anti-monopoly law enforcement departments should promptly investigate and deal with relevant illegal activities.

It is wrong and unpopular for those intermediaries to arbitrarily raise charging standards with the power given to them by relevant parties.

When Chinese citizens go abroad to seek help from them, they take advantage of the opportunity to go through various procedures and visas. They open their mouths and use the power that should not belong to them to illegally increase prices. Consumers find that they can Report them, because there is a unified price list for visa fees in our country and other countries. You can compare the price list to know whether the fees are arbitrary. You should not be taken advantage of. If you find such arbitrary fees, you should report it immediately.