To visit China, you must open a visa. However, this is not so easy to do. First of all, it is necessary to decide what kind of visa you need to be issued, and after that, to collect a package of documents.
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Prepare a passport, which expires no earlier than six months after the trip to China.
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You need to receive an invitation from the Chinese side. If the purpose of your travel tourism, you should invite representatives of the travel company to the territory of the state, which is registered in the Great Middle Kingdom. To do this, purchase a ticket. Alternatively, you can invite a hotel in which the rooms have been booked at the time of your stay. Invitation will not be required only if your stay in the PRC will be no more than 24 hours. In this case, you will make a transit visa. To make it, you should present a passport, filled out, tickets there and back, as well as a visa to the ultimate country.
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It is not difficult to find a suitable Chinese travel agency on the Internet. Take a few, learn their cost of booking rooms in hotels, compare with the prices of the hotels themselves. Select the option that suits you. Keep in mind, most likely you have to make a complete prepaid company's services.
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If the purpose of your student's trip, you can open this type of visa only with the presence of the original and copies of the application from the Chinese educational institution for the arrival of foreign students. In addition, you will need to collect such documents: the notice of admission to the university and a certificate of student health.
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You can visit relatives in China only after getting an invitation from them.
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When traveling on workers or commercial issues, you will need documents from the Chinese company that awaits you. In this invitation, your name and surname must be indicated, the purpose of the visit and the time of stay. In addition to the invitation, you should have an original and a copy of the allowing documents for the management of an inviting organization in China and the Mednifrack. When issuing a commercial visa, the original invitation of the first degree from the Chinese company in order to issue a visa for multiple entry throughout the year.
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When traveling with children, a birth certificate will be required, as well as the resolution of one of the parents if the child enters the country with one of the parents or a third party, and the passport data of the principal.
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Make color photos 3x4 format. If you are traveling with a child, his photo will also need.
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Next, you must fill out the questionnaire at the Chinese Embassy. It is filled in Russian, in English or in Chinese. In addition, an additional questionnaire in the consulate will require fill in such categories of the population: people who go to the PRC to learn or work, which are sent to the country with children, inscribed in a passport that do not have citizenship of the country where they currently live. In general, in the Chinese embassy quite loyally relate to the presence or absence of tickets in both ends, certificates of income and insurance. However, it is worth all these documents still take with me just in case.
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It will not be necessary to make a visa to China if you stay in Hong Kong for a period of no more than 2 weeks. And also if you have a diplomatic passport. In addition, residents of border-earthly regions are entitled to a visa-free short-term stay in China. In order to get to China, in this case, it will be necessary at the border to present a passport with registration in this region.
To date, the airports of Beijing and some resort cities of China have a service - getting a visa directly upon arrival at the airport. This service costs about $ 100, and the receiving party is obliged to meet a foreign guest before passport control.