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Q: If your visa application is "Refused" are you pretty much screwed?
I recent heard through a friend that a mutual acquaintance who was down in Hong Kong on a visa run had his passport stamped "Refused" for "sensitive" reasons that I don't want to get into. When this happens (your passport is stamped) does it pretty much mean that it will be impossible for you to ever get a visa into China again? Does it go into a system or is it just on the Passport? That is to say, if you get a new passport, will that help at all? I'm just really curious about what happens next for this person. As far as I know China was their home and now they're stuck in Hong Kong with none of their stuff.
11 years 31 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
It means it will be very difficult for you to get into China later on yes. That means you must have violated one of their rules which is why the stamp of refusal was given. It's not impossible to get in, but I would have to say you would need to wait a year or more to actually try to get back in the country!
Depends on the crime too! And if it wasn't a crime it all just depends what the stamp was for.
thedude:
Typical dim-witted answer Matty....but hey...ya got your 2 points so all is good in the eChina universe.
You give no details, so how do you expect an answer? I have never heard of a passport being stamped "REFUSED."
It depends on what the "sensitive issues" were.
Some would fade with time, others would screw the person over for life.
As I dont know what the "sensitive issue" was, I find it impossible to give an answer.
I have never heard of a passport being stamped "refused" either. However, I do know someone who went to HK on a business trip and was denied entry back into China even though his visa was still valid.
He owned a business in china, 2 apartments, even had several Chinese bank accounts. He lost them all. Since China refused him entry to the country, he went out of business, he can't access his accounts and his apartments are just sitting there with all of his belongings.
The closest thing he could figure out that he had done wrong (since the border officers refused to tell him anything) was that he was from the wrong country. He is Nigerian and was trying to cross the border at the same time that China was trying to kick hundreds of thousands of Nigerians out of China. Granted, some (several thousand) were in China illegally and others were in the drug & prostitution business, but there were a lot of good people caught up in the nets as well.
Sorry guys. Looking back at my post, I guess it is a bit vague, largely due to the fact that it's a "friend of a friend" situation, and I don't know much about it other than that there is a pending threat that the guy might not be allowed back in the country because, spoiler alert, he works for some unsanctioned NGO here on the DL. (Yeah I know it's not legal, but that's a whole other issue).
I don't know if it's called "refused", "rejected" or "denied", but I thought that there was some sort of stamp that your passport could get that served as a major red flag (other than being deported). And according to the way I heard of this guys situation, that's what happened to him, although maybe I misunderstood.
Anyways, it sounds like you all think this situation is unlikely, and you're all usually pretty well-versed in such legal matters, so I'll just drop it. Thanks for calling me out on my crap. 
GuilinRaf:
Not a matter of "crap". It was just vague, so we were not able to help. And, you DID warn us that it was a sensitive issue, so it is not as if you were being deliberately vague.
