How to apply for a china visa with 2 and half months alien card?

How to apply for a china visa with 2 and half months alien card?
Aug 17, 2011 11:34
TOBIN Points: Join Date: Aug 17, 2011 Status: offline	I am an Indian working in Korea. And already booked the ticket from Seoul to Beijing on 9th sept. I just obtain the information that the alien card needs to have 6 months availability for China visa application. Anyone knows anyway I can make my china trip with the following conditions? - my alien card has 2 and half months before expired - I have visited china in 2009 march, which is 2 and half year ago. - currently I am in seoul - and more important I need to go to beijing to visit my girlfriend.

Aug 17, 2011 11:34

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I am an Indian working in Korea. And already booked the ticket from Seoul to Beijing on 9th sept. I just obtain the information that the alien card needs to have 6 months availability for China visa application. Anyone knows anyway I can make my china trip with the following conditions?
- my alien card has 2 and half months before expired
- I have visited china in 2009 march, which is 2 and half year ago.
- currently I am in seoul
- and more important I need to go to beijing to visit my girlfriend.

Aug 17, 2011 20:59

GUEST3895

You can apply for China visa through China embassy in seoul directly, please don't use the travel agency because it will ask you to provide the alien registration card with at least 6 months validity.

You need to prepare the following documents：
1. your passport
2. filled visa application forms V.2011A and V.2011B
3. one passport photo
4. the alien card and its copy
5. copy of previous China visa
6. round-trip flight tickets
7. hotel bookings

Aug 17, 2011 22:33	#2
TOBIN Points: Join Date: Aug 17, 2011 Status: Offline	Thank you very much. So you mean i can apply for the visa via Seoul embassy directly with my current conditions?

Sep 22, 2011 06:57	#3
GUESTMINH	Dear Friends, I have a same problem. Now I am Vietnamese student studying in Taegu, Korea. I've already bought the airplane ticket to China on Oct 30, 2011 for Conference in Shanghai . However, when I went to the travel agency to make visa, they said I could not get the visa because my alien card has 5 months availability. So, anyone knows how I can get the visa to China?? Thanks

Sep 22, 2011 21:20

GUEST7886

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Originally Posted by GUESTMINH

Dear Friends,
I have a same problem. Now I am Vietnamese student studying in Taegu, Korea. I've already bought the airplane ticket to China on Oct 30, 2011 for Conference in Shanghai . However, when I went to the travel agency to make visa, they said I could not get the visa because my alien card has 5 months availability. So, anyone kno...

The embassy requires that ARC card should at least have 6 months validity. I think that you can not apply your visa in South Korea. You may try it in Hong Kong.

Feb 26, 2012 19:51

GUEST76132

There are many westerners (american, canadian, british, australian) working in korea and would like to travel to china during our vacation. we encounter the same problem that we must have more than six months on our alien card. many of us would like to travel at the end of our contract when our card expires but the current rules do not allow us.
The chinese government needs to decide if it wants out tourism dollars and foreign currency. Its much easier for us to travel to thailand or vietnam which have no such restrictive rules. Its too costly to make a special trip to Hong Kong to get the visa so many of us just goto somewhere else in Asia instead for our vacation

Mar 29, 2012 01:28	#6
GUEST52168	In my opinion, having been to a few countries, China isn't that great of a place to visit compared to Thailand, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, etc. Having traveled, lived and worked in Asia for a few years this is just my opinion.

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