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Old Dec 30, 2017 | 3:59 pm
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Originally Posted by jiejie
Since you have visas, I'd use the visa queues. While they might be long, there are also more of them. If the single TWOV queue gets buggered up with passengers with issues, you could end up waiting longer.
Agree.

Given the recent report of TWOV being denied at PEK because the transit wasn't over 8 hours, there is potential uncertainty as to the exact minimum time needed... and that could change (could be 12 hours next week).

Visas will get around that issue.
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