Shanghai expands landing-visa service
July 18, 2011 Category Foreign trade, Weekly
Shanghai is expanding a last-minute landing-visa service to foreigners who fail to get a visa from Chinese embassies but have urgent business in the city. There are 10 conditions under which foreigners can apply for a visa on arrival. Shanghai offers about 16,000 landing visas every year. The ten conditions which qualify to apply for a landing visa are:
• Invited by local organizers’ last-minute decisions to participate in trade fairs
• Invited to participate in bidding or to sign business cooperation contracts
• To supervise export shipment and import commodity inspection or to check on the completion of a contract
• Invited to work on equipment installation or to make rush repairs
• Invited by the local party to solve compensation-related problems
• Invited to provide science and technology consultations
• Foreign groups invited to the country are able to increase or change group members with the agreement from its Chinese host
• To visit patients in critical condition or to conduct a funeral
• Foreigners in transit who, because of forces outside their control (such as weather delays) are unable to leave China by their original aircraft within 24 hours or have to leave China by other means of transport
• Invited foreign guests having no time to get visas from Chinese embassies with authority letters which allow them to apply for landing visa
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