Originally Posted by cdubose98

Is there any difference in the immigration experience between flying A-China-B-A and A-B-China-A? I have a friend in Taipei who wants to go to Shanghai for <72 hours, and he wants to fly nonstop in one direction and make a connection in Macau (not enter Macau) with Air Macau on the other. He is also a US citizen.

I am curious if, say, he were to fly nonstop TPE-PVG and show his PVG-MFM-TPE ticket to the immigration desk, what would the immigration officers say, since his arriving flight would be from TPE and his return ticket that he would show to the officers would ultimately go back to TPE? The information in this thread indicates there would be no problem, but I am interested in hearing real-world examples of this.

I am not worried about TPE-MFM-PVG-TPE.