eligible territories ... please confirm

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Thank you for such great information.  I would like to ask if you can point me directly to authority that eligible territories for A and C (in your schematic of eligible routes) DO include both Taiwan and Hong Kong.  We are US citizens and our daughter (who is now a US citizen but was born in Taiwan) will be in Taiwan for 2 weeks this summer for a language immersion camp.  When we pick her up, we would like to travel to Shanghai and Nanjing on the 144-hour visa-free process (stay 3-4 days).  We would then leave Shanghai and travel to Hong Kong and then return to US.  Alternatively, we could fly from Taiwan to Hong Kong, then fly to Shanghai, and then return to US.I have not found official documentation that Taiwan and Hong Kong are eligible territories for A and B.Lastly, when I look at the application for a regular tourist visa (L), there are comments about when a person was born in China (including Taiwan) and that their old passport from China/Taiwan needs to be included in the application process.  Do you know of any issues with the 144-hour visa-free process that we may have with a child who is fully a US citizen now with a US passport, but did once have a Taiwan passport (that passport still exists and is valid)?Thank you so much for any information

Borut · Answer

David, you can easily check this detail by opening a free Timatic access at United Airlines website. It is not their Timatic, but they thankfully allow free access to it. Timatic is a comprehensive database that summarize all national travel/visa/transit rules of every single country and is used by all airport authorities in determining every single person eligibility for travel. In other words, you can insert as your origin point Taiwan and as your destination Hong Kong and a transit through Shanghai. You will see that this route is eligible since both Hong Kong and Taiwan, along with Macau, are eligible territories under 144 hour visa free transit. This is something that the authorities in both Taiwan and Shanghai will clearly see written in the way as you can see it as well. To conclude... The fact that your daughter has/had Taiwanese passport will not affect her transit in Shanghai area (you are definitely allowed to visit Nanjing as well) because she is not arriving on a visa, but based on 144 hour visa free transit, so there is no visa at all. If she was planning to visit Shanghai on a visa, that would be different thing as you have already written. In this case (144 hour visa free transit) she does not need to accomplish any formality and she can rely on US passport only. She can bring Taiwanese passport as well, there is no problem about that, but it is US passport that matters in this case. You should not worry, but just to proceed with your travel plans and to enjoy in every second of it.

"Eligible Territories" ... please confirm

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