Originally Posted by
work2fly
I'm looking to travel to SHA and HKG. We do not currently have Chinese visa but getting them probably isn't an issue given our close proximity to SF.
If we were to fly LAX-CAN-SHA on our outbound, am I correct that the only 'transit visa' available to us would be for 24 hours? If so, could we use this visa to transit and catch a flight from PVG to HKG? Then on the return, since we would fly direct from HKG-PVG, could we then avail of a longer visa to spend some time in Shanghai before catching our return SHA-CAN-LAX?
Thank you in advance.
If you've more than one stop within China*, you're down to 24hrs. (China as Mainland China, not including HKG, Macao and Taiwan, which for the purpose of TWOV are considered like other countries - all of them. So even a "domestic" schedule like TPE-PVG-HKG will qualify for 144hrs TWOV)
So when you fly SHA-CAN or vice versa, this will mean you can not have more than 24hrs between your scheduled landing into China till your scheduled departure date. Try to re-reroute your return flight to fly from SHA (or more probably, PVG) to LAX (or another other airport than HKG where you arrive from) if you like to use 144hrs TWOV. Flying via CAN too will mean 24hrs TWOV only.