Originally Posted by
moondog
My US passport was issued 03/19/2008 and expires 03/18/2018 (note that 18 is one day short of 19).
Mr. Downie's (post 45) PRC visa was issued 11/11/2014 and is valid until 11/11/2024 (note 11 = 11).
Based on this, either Mr. Downie has a special long-validity passport, or his PRC visa shall outlive his passport. Guess where my money is?
Or Mr. Downie's passport was just issued to him and has essentially 10 full years of validity. Hard to tell. My current passport expires in January 2016 and the current plan was to get a 12-monther, then go for something longer when the new passport is issued end of 2015. But if one can roll over a live Chinese visa into a new passport, that would be too good to be true.