Taiwan transit ban on PRC citizens (ex-China)
Jan 29, 2024, 7:11 pm
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if one already has a green card the jump to citizenship is not that big (eg you are already taxed on global income with green card).
but if you have family matters to take care of in China, it’s a lot easier to have Chinese passport and shenfenzheng
Jan 29, 2024, 10:43 pm
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It's still 大通証 that's the problem, as recently as 7 Jan, XHS users in Guangdong cannot even get the pass, let alone an endorsement.
Jan 30, 2024, 1:35 am
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What is XHS? Maybe it's different by region, but in Shanghai, as soon as they see you have the 1-pager entry permit issued by Taiwan, the PSB issues the 大通証 with no issues. This is based on what I experienced recently with my wife.
Jan 30, 2024, 2:20 am
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Jan 30, 2024, 2:57 am
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Jan 30, 2024, 9:25 am
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True. Last time we stopped in TPE from LAX and it was crazy they were refusing to let her board to continue onto China. Luckily my uncle was retired from the government and after a little back and forth they let her on. I was getting ready to book TPE-LAX-PVG. Crazy stuff.
Jan 31, 2024, 11:47 pm
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True. Last time we stopped in TPE from LAX and it was crazy they were refusing to let her board to continue onto China. Luckily my uncle was retired from the government and after a little back and forth they let her on. I was getting ready to book TPE-LAX-PVG. Crazy stuff.
Feb 1, 2024, 12:01 am
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Feb 1, 2024, 1:35 am
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Feb 1, 2024, 3:17 am
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Feb 1, 2024, 7:56 pm
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Weird, I would think that ground staff in Taiwan would wouldn't care. After all, China immigration can't really refuse their own citizen entry (again, just a lecture). Based on Xiaohongshu you can't board a flight to Nanjing with just a Chinese passport, but that's bizarre. Some airline must have been burned, but again, my belief was that China can't refuse entry.
The workaround in the past has been changing the flight to PVG instead of NKG, or choosing a Taiwanese airline instead.
Feb 2, 2024, 2:41 am
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My understanding is that this only ever happens with Chinese airlines such as China Eastern. In fact, I've only ever heard of it happening for flights into NKG. If this actually happened with a PVG flight that would be news to me.
The workaround in the past has been changing the flight to PVG instead of NKG, or choosing a Taiwanese airline instead.
The workaround in the past has been changing the flight to PVG instead of NKG, or choosing a Taiwanese airline instead.
Feb 2, 2024, 3:15 am
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I guess in this case though, this is an exit regulation that exit immigration cannot directly enforce Does CX record passenger's dissatisfaction or misbehavior on their system?, so not surprised it's imposed on the airline.
Feb 2, 2024, 8:08 am
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I'm guessing Nanjing might have something to do with this. As I've mentioned to you offline, the entry/exit division of the Ministry of Public Security that covers Nanjing and the surrounding area is quite special. In fact, my WeChat contact who works there tells me that she doesn't know of anywhere else in China that has policies with the same level of intensity as hers (I'm sure there must be other examples, though; China is a big place, she's presumably not omniscient, and maybe there's a "proudly the most draconian" factor at play as well).
Last edited by moondog; Feb 2, 2024 at 8:17 am