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anonymous
Q: How many times can you get a tourist visa in a row?
People I know keep having to go out of the country and back in again for new tourist visas. Don't they get suspicious if you keep doing this every 3 months that maybe just maybe you are actually working.
10 years 9 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
So long as your papers are in order you can get visas as many times as you want. When you report to the PSB to get the temporary residence permit, write "work" in the box that says "purpose of visit". So if you get checked by police, you show that you are properly registered. If they probe further just say that you are waiting for the contract. They usually accept this.
Is that a serious answer louischuahm or are you being delibratley sarcastic and misleading? You're either taking the piss or giving false information on purpose. I know there are quite a few questions on here that the posters could answer themselves if they could be bothered to search this site but dishonest answers are no use at all.
It has been quite clear for sometime now that getting multiple consecutive tourist visa's (especially in Hong Kong) is being stopped. In China it is now one tourist visa extension and as far as I know equally strict in HK.
As for advising the poster to state "work" on the temporary residence permit you are asking for them to be deported. You know that people can't come here on a tourist visa and convert it inside China to a Z-visa/work permit/residence visa. If the OP does as you state they will be in trouble.
ironman510:
Hotwater is correct.. My friend in Shenzhen tried a second time in the PSB for L visa extension and was rejected.
louischuahm:
If I appear to have misled you, then I must apologize. However, I am answering based on my experience. I have, since September 2013, been doing this and the PSB personnel didn't even bat an eyelid. Of course, I have all the papers to prove it if you deem it necessary. Also, perhaps I didn't include that I have a Singapore passport which grants me unlimited access into China for 15 days each time, without a visa. Again, I apologize for not making this clear. Citizens from Singapore, Brunei and Japan are granted this visa free entry. I trust that this clarifies the matter. Once again, my apologies if you were offended but rest assured no malice was intended.
Hotwater:
Thanks for the quick response Louis. It;s appreciated. Sounds like your passport gives better options than most people here.
Hotwater:
My reply was also a bit strong-worded so apologies if i caused offence.
ironman510:
Wow surprising Japan would be on the visa free entries.. Well given their relationship.
louischuahm:
Ironman@ Both China and Japan are interdependent, whether they like it or not. Both know that each will suffer economically should anything happen. The visa free thing was arranged way before the fight over the rocks. China needs the technology transfer and Japan needs the market. If you asked me, I'd say it's a similar relationship Apple and Samsung have right now. Samsung still supplies Apple with parts but on the top they are beating the crap out of each other. Strange relationship.
ironman510:
That's some good insight on that topic... Funny how the competitive world works..
Whatever you do don't extend a tourist visa inside China. You may be refused a new visa.
In HK you can't get a multiple entry visa now unless you have a HK ID card.
Staying in China on L visas is not a good idea. Not unless you can afford to fly to your home country every few months.
ironman510:
They don't fly home anymore, they just mail their passport home.
ScotsAlan:
I think you have to be careful doing that Ironman. How do they get around not having an entry stamp?
I have a similar story, but not of much use to the OP.
A Chinese national I know get UK citizenship a few years ago, but she did not tell China and kept her Chinese passport.
So she would fly from HK to the UK on her UK passport, and enter China on her Chinese one. But one day she was stopped at theChinese border. " Where is you HK entry stamp they asked?" She was directed to the office and had a lot of questions to answer.
Now she gets visas in her UK passport.
My first 3 years in China were on tourist visas. 3 one year mult-entry. I left China every three months for a vacation or stepped into HK for a second. Of course, I don't work. Every year, I went to HK, mailed my passport to America where a company handled my visas. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone necessarily, but it can be done. Now, I'm on a spousal family residence visa, so I need not do this to remain in China.
ironman510:
Have you had any problems or new requirements to renew your family resident permit?
xinyuren:
I'm still on my first 6 month visa. I'll let you know in a few months.
I used to know many people on L and F visas who had lived long term. Now I don't. The moral here is get a work or spousal visa if you want to live in china for more than few months. It's only gonna get harder and the government will not relent on kicking out illegal foreigners.
