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Asked by miu from canada | May. 28, 2025 19:10

About:240-Hour Visa-Free Transit

For Canadian holding Canadian passport, HK ID, Return to China card

Say if I hold a return ticket from Canada to ShenZhen transiting at Shanghai. If I fly from Canada to Shanghai, enter China with my Canadian passport, stay there for 3 days, fly to ShenZhen, stay there for 3 days, then go to HK through land port with HK ID and Return to China card, stay in HK for a few days. Then on my return route, through land port with HK ID and Return to China card, back to ShenZhen, stay there for 3 days, then fly back to Canada via Shanghai. Am I eligible for the 240-hour visa-free transit? Thank you.

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Answered by Borut | May. 29, 2025 05:53

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Miu, if you hold a valid Mainland Travel Permit (Home Return Permit), then you do not have to bother yourself about/with 240 hour visa free transit rules since you can use it (Mainland Travel Permit) to enter mainland China absolutely visa free. In case if you want to travel as a Canadian, then your itinerary as a whole is definitely eligible for 240 hour visa free transit - twice. It is just important to know that even you depart from Canada, you will have to buy a train ticket from Shenzhen or some other city of your choice directly to Hong Kong. West Kowloon station. You will print it out and have at hand, ready to be presented in both Canada and upon your landing in Shanghai. You will do your entry formalities in China in Shanghai and after that your flight to Shenzhen will be a domestic one. So, this section is resolved. On your return, you will leave Hong Kong for mainland China (Shenzhen) by ferry to Shekou because it is only the ferry that is eligible when traveling from Hong Kong to mainland China. Also, it is only Shekou and Nansha ports that are eligible for 240 hour visa free transit scheme. Here you will have your round trip ticket from Shenzhen to Canada via Shanghai as a proof that you will leave mainland China for a third country and this is also eligible for 240 hour visa free transit for the second time. Please, just remember, you will really have to take exactly that train from Shenzhen to Hong Kong that you have presented in both Canada and Shanghai. Also, you should be aware that you cannot combine the Mainland Travel Permit and 240 hour visa free transit scheme. It is only Mainland Travel Permit without 240 visa free transit or a Canadian passport only and with 240 hour visa free transit. This is a detail that you have to decide yourself.

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