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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: While waiting for a new passport would I be able to get an L visa in a few days time?
My new passport is being mailed to mainland China but my residence permit will most likely expire a day before it arrives. With about 7 days time left, would I be able to apply for and receive an L visa? Or possibly head to Hong Kong to complete the tourist visa process?
4 years 51 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
I'd look at the HK option if I were you. Any situation where you're in China without a visa is a bad situation.
diverdude1:
right u are old bean! I may be the only guy in the history of the planet to beat a China Immi Official siiting at his desk. I overstayed a 'humanitarian' visa by one day, can't exactly remember the reason but it was a good one, like how to count dates and such,,,, anyway I was exiting into HK and I thought I had made it,,, I was tripping out! Then at the very last second he catches it,,, called in his supervisor and everything! Well,,, they had thier confab and gave me a fair amount of 'stink eye', but finally just told me to gtfo. I'll never forget that, not like them to even let one day slide..... oh well, it's a crazy world. btw OP, I second Stigg's suggestion.... git yo azz down to HK....
Stiggs:
I remember reading somewhere - might have been here I dunno - about someone on their way home whose domestic flight to Beijing or wherever they were flying out from was delayed so they missed their flight home. Shouldn't have been any big deal, they just re-book you on the next flight out but in the meantime his / her visa expired.
That's not something anyone can control, if it's anyone's fault it's on the Chinese side but it didn't stop them throwing the book at the poor foreigner who probably didn't know that when you're booking a flight in China you have to allow time for the almost inevitable delays. Don't expect your connecting flight to land at the scheduled time leaving you just enough time to grab a beer and get on the next plane, and don't plan to fly out hours before your visa is due to expire.
I'd look at the HK option if I were you. Any situation where you're in China without a visa is a bad situation.
diverdude1:
right u are old bean! I may be the only guy in the history of the planet to beat a China Immi Official siiting at his desk. I overstayed a 'humanitarian' visa by one day, can't exactly remember the reason but it was a good one, like how to count dates and such,,,, anyway I was exiting into HK and I thought I had made it,,, I was tripping out! Then at the very last second he catches it,,, called in his supervisor and everything! Well,,, they had thier confab and gave me a fair amount of 'stink eye', but finally just told me to gtfo. I'll never forget that, not like them to even let one day slide..... oh well, it's a crazy world. btw OP, I second Stigg's suggestion.... git yo azz down to HK....
Stiggs:
I remember reading somewhere - might have been here I dunno - about someone on their way home whose domestic flight to Beijing or wherever they were flying out from was delayed so they missed their flight home. Shouldn't have been any big deal, they just re-book you on the next flight out but in the meantime his / her visa expired.
That's not something anyone can control, if it's anyone's fault it's on the Chinese side but it didn't stop them throwing the book at the poor foreigner who probably didn't know that when you're booking a flight in China you have to allow time for the almost inevitable delays. Don't expect your connecting flight to land at the scheduled time leaving you just enough time to grab a beer and get on the next plane, and don't plan to fly out hours before your visa is due to expire.
Go to the PSB and you can get a 14 day or 30 day extention.