Answered by Borut
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Aug. 18, 2025 00:31
Thuy, it is important to understand that 24 hour visa free transit is strictly based on 24 hours counting from your scheduled arrival time until your scheduled departure time. A time until and from the immigration counters is irrelevant. However, you are lucky because of the fact that Beijing airport and Beijing airport only does not count 24 hour visa free transit in this way, but they start counting 24 hours a day after your arrival. In other words, you are arriving at 8:45, but Beijing immigration will start counting your 24 available hours starting from 00:01 of the day after your arrival. So, you are eligible for 24 hour visa free transit, but only because you are flying via Beijing. If you were transiting through any other airport, your itinerary would be non eligible. Just to conclude, you are eligible for 24 hour visa free transit in your case because you are flying through Beijing regardless of the fact that your total transit time exceeds 24 hours. Hopefully you are flying on Chinese airline from Moscow to Beijing because they will be familiar with this detail. Have a nice journey.