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Asked by Alice from usa | Oct. 01, 2024 07:43

About:China Visa-free Policy

Fly into Shanghai under 72 hours?

My friends and I are planning a trip to Shanghai and HK Disney. If we stay in Shanghai under 72 hours, is this valid or would we have to fly into another country/region beforehand? Like Taiwan as an option?

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Answered by Borut | Oct. 06, 2024 12:43

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Alice, you can stay in wider Shanghai area for 144 hours (6 days) absolutely visa free, but your flight itinerary has to follow the pattern:

A country - B country (mainland China) - C country

As you can see, the immediate points before and after Shanghai have to be in two different countries or eligible territories. Eligible territories are Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau and they act as third country in this regard.

To be even more transparent, your itinerary has to look something like this:

South Korea - Shanghai - Taiwan

or

Hong Kong - Shanghai - Taiwan

or

Japan - Shanghai - South Korea

It is just important to remember the rule with the immediate points before and after and the rule that you cannot have two mainland Chinese stops in a row or in other words, an itinerary of this kind is not allowed like

Seoul - Shanghai - Beijing - Taiwan

Have a nice journey.

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Answered by Ot | Oct. 12, 2024 06:32

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On a British passport can I do hongkong guangzhou hongkong

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Answered by Keith | Oct. 13, 2024 18:35

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To utilize the visa free transit. Sorry, it's not an available transit route.

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