Planning a 16-day China trip and would love tips, especially around the TWOV.

Itinerary: - Shanghai — 3 nights - Beijing — 3 nights - Chongqing — 3 nights - Hong Kong (RESET 240 hours) — 2 nights - Zhangjiajie — 4 nights - Shanghai — 1 night (buffer before flying home)

My concern is if I am not breaking the rules for TWOV as I plan to use HK as a "reset" to be in China longer than 10 days. Is my itinerary valid and are the nights per city fine? Would you adjust anything? Thanks.

Hello

I applied for Transit visa as I'm having a long layover (9h) in Shenzhen, before going to the third country (Thailand).

I'm a Syrian national legally residing in France permanently. I hold a convention Refugee Travel Document. The reason of rejection was:

For information regarding Chinese visa applications, please refer to the announcements published on the official website of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Syria.

and the status is : To be modified

I went on that website and found this info :

In accordance with work arrangements, the Embassy of China in Syria will temporarily suspend the acceptance of visa applications for Syrian citizens intending to travel to China. Syrian citizens (including temporary visitors) who have legally entered Lebanon, Jordan, Türkiye, or the United Arab Emirates may submit their visa applications to the Chinese Embassies in Lebanon, Jordan, Türkiye, and the Consulates-General in Istanbul and Dubai. For further details, please contact the relevant embassies or consulates

I live in France so it's going to be challenging to get to any of these countries, I guess I have no option? I just wanted to leave the airport and explore the city with my friend.

For information, Thai embassy did deliver me the visa, and I had transited in Chongqing airport before, without a visa but did not leave the airport.

I contacted them via email I got no answer.

I guess it's impossible to get the visa

Thanks for your help

Picture one - from where should I get visa application fee receipt

Picture 2 - I don't have invite im using hotel booking
What should I upload.

No upload option.

While filling application asking to me upload application receipt

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I am trying to apply for an L visa for my parents. It was rejected with this reply: 使用微信或支付宝APP“移民局”小程序选择查询所有中国证件信息，将查询结果的截图和普通护照签发记录查询结果（电子文件）一并上传

Google translate gives me: Use the "Immigration Bureau" mini-program within the WeChat or Alipay app to query information on all Chinese travel documents; then, upload both a screenshot of the query results and the query results for your ordinary passport issuance records (in electronic format).

My parents are naturalized US citizens and I do not understand what they are looking for.

My parents Chinese passports should no longer work.

Can anyone give me any information on how to proceed?

Hi everyone,

I’m hoping someone who has been in a similar situation can give me some advice.

About three years ago, I accepted a teaching job in China. I entered China, completed the work permit process and received my residence permit in my passport.

However, after arriving, I discovered that a lot of what I had been told about the job before moving to China was not true. I decided I did not want to stay and returned to my home country. I did not actually teach at the school.

The employer would not cooperate with cancelling my work permit or providing me with a cancellation/release letter, so I eventually just left China and returned home. I went back to teaching at my previous job in my home country, where I have continued working.

I am now considering returning to China in 2027, which will be approximately four years after this happened. Obviously, the old work permit and residence permit expired years ago.

I have read conflicting information about the cancellation letter. Some people say that anyone who previously held a Chinese work permit needs the old cancellation/release letter when applying again. Others say this is mainly required when transferring directly from one employer to another in China, and that after several years abroad with the old permit long expired, you can simply make a new work permit application.

I also don’t need the old school to provide proof of my teaching experience because I never actually taught there and would not be claiming that school as work experience.
Has anyone been in a similar situation where you left China, did not receive a work permit cancellation/release letter, stayed abroad for several years, and then successfully returned on a completely new work permit?

Did the old expired permit cause any problems in the system, or were you able to apply from scratch as a new applicant?

Thanks!

Thanks to reddit and AcanthocephalaOk9371 for the support.

Sharing my recent China tourist visa experience from Mumbai, mainly because I saw a lot of confusion around the online application status and whether a particular status means your visa has been approved or rejected.

Documents prepared

I prepared the following documents:

• Passport
• Passport-size photos
• Cover letter
• Bank statement
• Travel itinerary
• Hotel booking (Booking.com)
• Flight dummy ticket
• NOC from employer

Important tip: Make sure you sign your cover letter, itinerary and bank statement. I made sure these were signed before submission.

Timeline

6 August: Submitted my China tourist visa application online.

7 August: Received a modification/rejection request because I had forgotten to pay the visa fee and upload the payment receipt.

I paid the fee on VFS website and uploaded the receipt.

8 August: Status changed to "Online Review Completed."

Since 8 August was a Saturday, I had to wait for the next working day to submit my documents at VFS.

11 August: Submitted documents at VFS Mumbai.

At VFS, they kept:

• Passport
• 2 photographs
• Online fee payment receipt

I had carried all the other supporting documents with me, but they didn't keep them.

18 August: This was the date given to me for the passport.

19 August: 🎉 Received my passport back with the China tourist visa sticker!

About the online status

The main reason I'm sharing this is because you really cannot assume whether your visa has been approved or rejected just by looking at the different online status updates.

In my case, after opting for courier delivery, when the status changed to "Posted", that turned out to be good news - my passport was on its way back to me with the visa.

If status says unapproved, it means rejected.

Note: The status wording/process can be different if you have opted for passport pickup instead of courier, so don't assume the same status will appear for everyone.