Originally Posted by
sniles
Perhaps the officers on duty when I was there were not aware of the procedures for foreigners registered for e-channel. I was stopped upstairs at the fingerprint scanning machines and told to scan despite telling them i had e-channel registration and again at the entrance to the e-channel lanes despite again telling them i was registered.
In any case will try again next time around.
It is so frustrating, that they never know the rules. My wife got a new passport a few months ago, and her 10 year toursist visa is in her old passport. When we flew into KMG a few days ago, the boarder guard who stamped us in, was new and being trained, and a supervisor was standing behind his shoulder. The supervisor said in Chinese that he was pretty sure that foreigners aren’t allowed to have a visa in an old passport.
Last year, I was using the eChannel, and one of the times I was in line for the eChannel at PEK, a boarder guard came over and told me it was not for foreigners. She was shocked when I was able to enter the country though the eChannel.