Answered by Borut
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Nov. 19, 2025 23:56
The first and the most important detail is that you are eligible for 24 hour visa free transit and you do not need any kind of visa.
Here is what will you do upon your landing in Haikou:
- Upon your landing in Haikou you will fill out arrival card that you will find at the airport and maybe it will be also dispensed at the aircraft and you will tick the box - transit on it.
- You will perform fingerprinting at automatic fingerprinting machine.
- Approach 24/240 hour visa free transit where you will present your flight tickets and where you will apply for a temporary entry permit to be allowed to cross the immigration because you simply have to collect and re-check your luggage and for this reason you have to formally enter China. This is all free from any charge.
- When you have completed the first three steps, you will cross the immigration and head to the carousel with your luggage and you will collect it.
- Head to the departure hall and find a check-in counter for your flight to Sydney.
- When you have re-checked your luggage, head to the exit immigration and then to the gate for your flight to Sydney.
If you do not have any checked luggage, you will probably be allowed to stay within the transit area of Haikou airport, but this is a detail that I cannot confirm because I am not sure whether the airport has airside that allows a transit without the exit in the landside. In any case, you will be fine and just remember the procedure.
It is true that you have quite a limited time, so be very fast and agile to accomplish the above explained formalities. It is doable, but you have to be fast and also do not skip any of the mentioned steps. You will catch your flight to Sydney and enjoy your journey.
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