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Asked by Nunki from hong kong | May. 03, 2023 22:15

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SOUTH AFRICAN PASSPORT HOLDER LIVING IN HONG KONG - WAS TURNED AWAY AT LO WU

I have a South African passport and living in HK with a temporary HKID. I was turned away at Lo Wu, after the official said African passport holders do not qualify for the VOA at Shenzen border. Even though I had a letter of invitation from a company in Shenzen. Could you please confirm this is correct, as I cannot get through on the numbers for the border control centers you listed.
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Answered by Borut | May. 04, 2023 00:18

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Yes, this seems to be the case. Until now the Chinese authorities have not yet fully liberalized the obtaining of Shenzhen and other VOA, so they issue VOA just to a limited number of countries. I was surprised that certain countries, located quite close to China like Philippines, are also currently ineligible for such a visa. Maybe this has something to do with their shorter opening hours of visa offices and/or the huge number of applicants that currently wait for hours in order to obtain a visa. Hopefully, the situation will be soon normalized and the majority of countries will be allowed to obatin a VOA as it used to be the case in pre-covid times.

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