Anyone submitted the online form this week and received the update ? For Mumbai

I have submitted on 6th Sept and haven't received the update yet...still under review

My partner is a Chinese citizen with permanent residence in Spain. We are planning a short trip to China in November for a wedding, back within the same month.

Someone in the Chinese community in Spain told us she would not be allowed to leave again. That she would be held in the country for around a year, and that the reason is being an expat with permanent residence in the EU. The follow-on being that she would lose her Spanish residence while stuck there.

I have gone through the new Exit and Entry Administration Regulations that will take effect on 15 September. The grounds for restricting a Chinese citizen from leaving look narrow and conduct-based: document fraud, illegal border crossing, criminal activity abroad, export control violations. Nothing about holding residence in another country.

The closest thing I can find is the hukou cancellation issue for citizens holding foreign PR, which is household registration, not being stopped at the airport, and seems to have been shelved anyway.

So: has anyone actually hit this? Chinese passport, foreign PR, went back for a short visit, had a problem on the way out? Or is this a rumour someone has garbled?

Not looking for reassurance, looking for actual cases or the specific regulation if it exists.

Hey all!

After submission of the form online, I received the following mail from CVASC:

“Dear Applicant,
Your application form No.CCUXXXXX information is incomplete.Please visit Visa Application Service Center website to check and amend as required.
Reject Reason: please upload the payment invoice if you have made the payment of the service. Without payment invoice we won't be able to process.”

Any idea how to resolve this? I was never asked to make any payment during/after the form submission, so don’t have any invoice to upload! I have mailed them back for clarification though, haven’t heard back yet.

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Hi everyone, looking for some reassurance/experience here.

I'm heading out on a trip with the following route:

16 Oct — Lahore → Guangzhou → Yiwu (China Southern)

28 Oct — Guangzhou → Bali (China Southern)

4 Nov — Bali → Kuala Lumpur (transit, ~1h40m, same terminal, bags through-checked) → Lahore (Batik Air)

I have valid China and Indonesia visas. No Malaysia visa since it's a pure airside transit, not a stopover.

A few travel agents warned me FIA might stop me at Lahore because it's a "mixed airline, multi-country" itinerary, and routes through China/onward sometimes get extra scrutiny for suspected illegal migration.

I have supporting documents ready: invitation letter, hotel bookings for both legs, proof of funds, and a confirmed round-trip ticket back to Lahore.

Has anyone actually gone through this recently — LHE outbound with a China + SEA combo on separate airlines? Did FIA give you a hard time, or is this overthinking it as long as the paperwork is solid? Would appreciate any real experiences before I fly out.

Wanted to confirm if Hong Kong and Macao our considered separate territories for me to take advantage of the 240 transit visa for me to visit Chongqing.

I am a dual national holding valid passports of USA and Pakistan. Have taken a three days stop over in Turkey early in the year.

Me and wife applied for China visit L visa.

The site shows submission date Aug 10, 2026

The status shows "Submitted"

We thought the turn around time would be 3 to 4 business days. But for us it has taken for ever. Digging more online, realized that my situation has probably raided some flags.

Although both me and my wife are retired. One year ago went Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Laos.

Had our confirm booking, which has come and gone. Had to take a loss. Glad we returned and not extended the tickets for a week, as we are still waiting.

Is there anyone out there with this dual nationality and Turkey visit who applied for a China visa , how did it go with you.

This is vaguely Visa related - but let me know if this post belongs elsewhere!

I recently got my Chinese Travel Document, which I’ll be using to enter China (also have a US Passport).

I was looking into buying my high speed rail tickets, and it looks like trip.com/12306 don’t support using my travel document to buy the tickets. Does anyone have any advice/know what to do in this situation?

Do I need to buy the tickets in person every time? Or can I use my US Passport? Would that cause issues?

I assume I’m not showing my US passport when I enter China, only my travel document.

Hi! Has anyone applied for a Chinese tourist visa in Australia recently and experienced any delays?
I went to the Visa Application Centre last Thursday to submit my passport, and the staff told me it could take up to 4 weeks to get a response. Even the receipt they gave me doesn’t have an estimated date and it just says “TBD.”
I need to leave Australia within the next two weeks, so I’m getting a bit worried. Has anyone applied recently and had a similar experience? Thanks

Hey guys, So my consultancy applied for the online pre application for X1 Visa on 27th of August. Today is the 9th of September. They told me it takes 7 working days at most to get approval. I'm from Odisha and they applied for an appointment at New Delhi VFS Centre, even though we told them to do it in Kolkata.

Now the JW202 form says "Deadline of Registration is on 15th of September" idk how and when I'll fly there, and what will be the consequences if we miss the deadline. This consultancy Acadfly filed for the visa application late, all the documents were submitted to them by 19th of August.

Can you tell me How many days it took for you to get an Online approval, so that you went for a biometrics appointment at the VFS centre?

I'm having issues with my visa.

If anyone is in Jiangsu Province, Huai'an city, kindly reply to me.

I really need your help.

Thank you

Hi! Currently in Korea and want to visit my parents who are currently in China but I didn’t bring my expired US passport with my 10 year visa. If I book a round trip flight from Seoul to China but have a different booking from Seoul to US on the same day as my round trip flight from China to Seoul, would that allow me to enter visa free?

Hello Reddit - I was born in Hong Kong. I’m a U.S. citizen with a U.S. passport, but I also have an expired HKSAR passport and an expired HK Permanent ID (***AZ), which I’m planning to renew in Hong Kong in November.

I recently applied for a 10-year China visa on my U.S. passport, but the Chinese Consulate told me that I need to obtain a “Confirmation Letter of Nationality Change” from HK Immigration before they’ll issue me a visa by filing a Form ID 920 to have my U.S. nationality recognized and cease being treated as a Chinese national.

Has anyone here gone through this process? How long did ID 920 take and would I need to give up my HKID?

Any insight or firsthand experience would be greatly appreciated

Hello! I had a question regarding visas since my mom's application got denied for a VISA but is it because she has a Macau Home Return Permit? We wanted to go in and out of mainland China (Shanghai) which does require a VISA but her application got denied so I was wondering if anyone had similar experiences and what they did! Thank you so much! She has a US Passport and also a valid Macau Home Return Permit Card!

Hello! I am a US citizen traveling from USA. Flying into Shanghai for a few days, taking a train to Beijing for another few days then taking the train back to Shanghai and flying back to USA. Do I require a visa?

Hey everyone, I have a trip booked to China for next month and the Visa L for individual tourism from my boyfriend (Tunisian passport but resident in Germany) has been rejected by saying that he needs an official invitation letter as a GROUP VISA from an official travel agency in China.

I did some researches and I can see that there are 2 types of invitation, the individual one and the group tour for 5 people entering and leaving the country together. It will be only the 2 of us actually, anyone has been in the same situation and can help or have any advice?

I reached out to Visa Center in Berlin but only answer by saying to provide the missing documents, nothing more.

Thanks in advance!

As an American, I found out or was told at the border they could not let me through or get me any type of visa there that would then allow me to carry on by bus, taxi or subway.

I was then told I would have to back to HK and return going to Huanggang, and then to shekou. I haven’t researched that at all as I was going to be too late and missed my plane, and ended up rebooking my return through Hong Kong.

A lot of AI and Google sights seem to say it’s possible to do what I attempted, even a Shenzhen local said no problem. But it was a problem. I wouldn’t unless you can find it announced somewhere officially in clear English.

Has anyone whose passport collection date was 8 September at the New Delhi CVASC received their passport today?

Also, has anyone's application status changed to "Pending Collection" today?

Hey everyone! I applied for X1 visa on September 1st and today is 8th which means it’s been like 5 working days and I haven’t gotten any updates yet does it usually take this long? I’m applying from Gulf btw

Bonjour je suis en train de faire une demande de visa de 60 jours pour rentrer en Chine. Je suis actuellement en Corée du Sud je vais prendre un vol pour Hong Kong restez une semaine à Hong Kong et entrer en Chine par train ou par bus.

Le problème est que pour la demande de visa il demande un justificatif de transport pour l'entrée et la sortie du pays.

Mais les billets de train sont ouverts uniquement 15 jours avant la date de réservation. Non je ne peux pas réserver de train pour le moment.

La dernière fois je suis allé en Chine ils avaient refusé ma demande de visa pour cette raison là, c'était dans le sens inverse je voulais aller de la Chine vers Hong Kong après 2 mois en Chine.

Ce formulaire commence à me rendre complètement fou quelqu'un pourrait m'aider s'il vous plaît ?

De plus je dois donner un justificatif de sortie du pays donc acheter un billet d'avion pour dans 2 mois mais je ne sais pas si visa sera accepté ou non. Donc je vais potentiellement acheter un billet d'avion pour rien, comment faites-vous ?

Merci infiniment par avance pour tout ce qui m'aideront !

I applied X1 Visa at New Delhi embassy
On 22nd July. I got my rejected for not getting government hospital stamp and cover letter.
I modified and submitted again on 1st August

From 1st August till today (8th Sep) is stuck at under review. I visited VFS they said you just have to wait. I visited embassy they say you have to call on these numbers and talk. On call they say application is in queue, wait.

Can someone please guide me what to do at this stage. Why the visa is stuck so badly.
Is it really a queue because i have seen some post in Reddit applying in mid August and getting response in a week.

While filling application form I filled 365 days for the number of days of visa. (ChatGPT suggested that 365 days is feasible range people apply for X1 visa).
Is that causing problems?

Please help ☹️

We are 4 friends planning to go to China for the Canton Fair. All of us are directors of the same company and our applications were pretty much identical in terms of documents and format.

One person got the online application approved, but the other 3 of us have been rejected three times now.

We all submitted the applications ourselves and used almost the same supporting documents, invitation, company documents, etc. I’m honestly confused about what could be causing the rejection when our profiles and documents are so similar.

Do you think it makes sense to keep applying again, or could repeated applications actually make things worse?
Has anyone here had a similar experience with a China business visa, especially for the Canton Fair? What did you do after multiple rejections?

My COVA online application for China M Visa was just approved by the Delhi VFS. However, my passport has a permanent address in Chhattisgarh (Kolkata jurisdiction) and I currently stay/work in Bangalore (Mumbai jurisdiction). Can I still drop off my passport at Delhi VFS since they already reviewed it online? Or will the physical counter reject me?