Originally Posted by
timesnaps
Flew from a thrid country via HKG on Cathay to Beijing, with one of the eligble passports. Here is a small but hopefully useful list of how it worked:
Useful trip report, thanks for sharing
Originally Posted by
timesnaps
- as I stayed with friends, I didnt get any police registration, even though one is supposed to do that within 24hrs. I was actually sick, so even if it was imperative to be doing it, I wouldnt have been able to)
This might become an issue for you in the future, there are examples of individuals who fail to complete accommodation registration on a trip who end up being denied visas or entry on subsequent trips, especially as it's now all computerised.
From my armchair point of view the intelligence to reconcile that you have failed to do accommodation registration isn't yet good enough that they catch your transgression as you try to exit China and give you a hard time due to missing overnight records, but it might come back to cause you a nuisance in future. As far as I know there is not a lot you can do
to fix it retrospectively.