
Help please. I am flying in June to Shanghai to board a cruise to Japan.
I would like to avail the 72 hr visa free transit at the Shanghai airport. I read your rules listed above and I think I Qualify. However the cruise is going to Japan with stops there. I was planning on getting my free Japan visas on arrival in Japan. However this means when I am at Shanghai Airport trying to obtain the China 72 hr free visa at that point I will not have the Japan visas in my passport meaning I do not technically have yet the Chinese requirement for showing a visa to my next destination. What do you think? Will the officers at Shanghai give me the 72 hr free knowing that I get Japan visas free there when I arrive? I am worried since then I could be prevented from traveling to the cruise center to board my already payed for cruise.