[News] From Jan. 2011, the services of L to F visa conversion and X/Z to F visa conversion are available again in Beijing.

[News] From Jan. 1, 2011, to apply for China F visa invitation letters, foreign applicants need to provide extra incumbency certification. And this certification has to be translated into Chinese.

[News] From the end of Sep. 2010 on, F visa extension is available again.

[News] From July 26, 2010 on, F visa extension, L to F visa conversion and X/Z to F visa conversion services are suspended temporarily.
L visa extension for 1 month, F visa notification letter and China work visa application service can work normally.

[News] BEIJING - Starting from June, 2010, foreigners who have close relatives in China will be able to apply for residence permits that are valid for up to two years with multiple entries. Before they can only apply for up to 1 year visiting-relative L visas. For more details, please click here.

[News] If you have got the Employment license or foreign expert license in Beijing and don't want to go to HK or your home country to apply for a Z visa, we can help you get residence permit for work without leaving.

[News] If you are a lawyer who work officially in China and want to apply for a Z visa in HK, you'd better avoid the trip recently. It is reported that there are some refusal cases due to the communication problems among HK visa office, the authority in China mainland who issue Z visa notification letters, i.e. Bureau of Commerce and Bureau of Justice. - May 20, 2010

[News] For French citizens only
From May, 2010 on, it was reported frequently that French passport holders encounter numerous difficulties to get China visas in Hong Kong, whatever Z, L or F visa. It seems in France there are no problems to get China visas. In Beijing, it remains as usual. Here comes our suggestion for French: avoid the recent visa trip to HK until it becomes better.

 

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Travel with both pasassports
Child born in China faces dual nationality conflict

Travel with both passports
In case you need to apply for a new passport as the old one is going to expire soon or there are almost no blank pages or the passport is damaged, how to deal with your current valid China visa?
If you are in your home country to apply for a new passport and the Chinese visa is still valid when you plan to come back to China, you DON'T need to re-apply for a new visa. You can use both passports to travel, with the valid visa on the invalid old passport (holes punched or edge cut) and the entry stamp made on the new passport. You should NOT apply for a new visa if your current Residence permit for work is still valid and you will still work for the company. When you come back to China, please do in turn within 10 days to change the information on the Alien Employment Permit and transfer the residence permit to the new passport in the local authorities with necessary documents provided.
If you are in China mainland to apply for a new passport and your current visa is a residence permit for work, after you get your new passport, please do in turn to change your information on Alien Employment Permit and transfer the residence permit to the new passport within 10 days. If your current visa is an F visa or L visa, you don't need to do so. Just carry the two passports to travel.

Child born in China faces dual nationality conflict
In China, dual nationalities including Chinese nationality are not accepted.
Nowadays, many foreigners marry Chinese and stay in China. Their children will face the problem of dual nationality conflict. According to Chinese laws, if one of the parents is Chinese and the child is born in China, the child is considered as a Chinese. And many parents prefer the foreign nationality instead. How to deal with it?
You can register the child at your embassy and get the passport for him/her. Don't worry about the fact that there is no valid stay permit. Only when you want to take him/her to leave China mainland need you to do nationality validation and apply for exit permit for him/her. You can do it at the local Exit & Entry Division of Public Security Bureau. The exit permit is 3 month valid. When you are in your home country, you can apply for a China visa for your child when you both want to come back to China.
Some parents take the other way - keep Chinese nationality before he/she is 18 years old. Then do the hukou cancellation and Chinese nationality renouncement and take the foreign nationality.