144 Hour Visa to Start January 30
Jan 26, 2016, 10:00 pm
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144 Hour Visa to Start January 30
144 Hours visas to start for Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu from SHA, PVG, NKG, HGH on January 30 according to Shanghai Daily.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/metro/S.../shdaily.shtml
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/metro/S.../shdaily.shtml
Jan 26, 2016, 10:33 pm
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A bit more detail here:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2016...1117898349.htm
Eta: Just to be clear, this pertains to visa free transit, not visa on arrival.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2016...1117898349.htm
Eta: Just to be clear, this pertains to visa free transit, not visa on arrival.
Last edited by moondog; Jan 26, 2016 at 10:45 pm
Jan 26, 2016, 11:18 pm
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Jan 27, 2016, 2:55 am
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Now, I can take train from HK to Shanghai and then on the Xin Jian Zhen to Japan without a Chinese visa!
http://www.shinganjin.com/time_table_e.php
http://www.shinganjin.com/time_table_e.php
Jan 27, 2016, 3:51 am
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Pretty exciting.
As always - I guess the advice will be to see when this appears in TIMATIC. Without the 'official' notification, you may have difficulty boarding at your point of origin.
As always - I guess the advice will be to see when this appears in TIMATIC. Without the 'official' notification, you may have difficulty boarding at your point of origin.
Jan 27, 2016, 6:25 am
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Now, I can take train from HK to Shanghai and then on the Xin Jian Zhen to Japan without a Chinese visa!
http://www.shinganjin.com/time_table_e.php
http://www.shinganjin.com/time_table_e.php
Just pointing the obvious, these are news articles, not official publications. We'll have to wait for official statements and databases like TIMATIC to reflect this.
Jan 27, 2016, 7:24 am
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Let's remember that air-sea transit have been officially allowed for a long time but it has been impossible as they won't let you board a flight or cruise for such transit without a visa. We'll see if things are different now.
Jan 27, 2016, 11:07 pm
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Regarding the Hong Kong - Mainland HSR line, I wonder how they would enforce foreign passengers to only get off the train in 江浙沪 - By making them sitting in a designated area with immigration officers?
Jan 27, 2016, 11:29 pm
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Jan 28, 2016, 8:43 am
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To qualify as a transit flights need to be non-stop. So similarly, an HSR train from HK that stops somewhere along the way to Shanghai would probably not qualify.
Jan 28, 2016, 3:22 pm
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