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Asked by Anna Young from united kingdom | Nov. 08, 2018 11:39

About:Shanghai 15-day Visa-free Policy for Cruise Tour Groups

Sailing into Shanghai for two days then two days at sea before arriving in Tianjin

where the ship will be for a further two days. Then sailing off to next port in Japan. Do we need a visa?

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Answered by Gene | Nov. 08, 2018 22:16

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Yes, you need a visa.

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Answered by Heather | Nov. 12, 2018 12:02

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Hi Anna
I think I am on the same cruise and think you can use the 15 day visa free mentioned above. If you go on an organised tour in Shanghai, you will also be covered in Beijing. This is how I read it.

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Answered by Rob | Nov. 14, 2018 08:15

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Anna and Heather – looking at your questions, it’s possible that my wife and I are on the same (or at least similar!) cruise to yours. We are on Queen Mary, with the SH to Beijing sector covering 22 Feb ’19 to 27 Feb inclusive. I have also been struggling to resolve the visa question, and both Cunard and their ‘visa agent’ CIBT have proved unable to answer the (I would have thought) straightforward question! I have wondered if the 144 hour no-visa rule, which *separately* applies to our SH and Beijing stops, would apply. So, in practice, one would go into SH apply there for the 144 waiver; depart SH, in effect closing that waiver down; and then arrive in Beijing and applying there for *their* 144-hour waiver. What I can’t work out is whether this would be invalidated by the fact that we do not go to another country immediately after SH, which appears to be a condition of this arrangement. I contacted the UK Chinese visa center in London, which acts as a front-end for the Chinese Embassy, but they were also unable to answer this question/proposition! What we are doing on these two visits is clearly within the spirit of the 144-hour waivers, but I can’t get an answer to the question of whether you can do two of these sequentially, as it were.

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