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    He said many cities worldwide have come up with visa waiver projects to attract more tourists, including Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur.

    ?????

    I thought Japan (and Singapore and Brunei) passport holders don't require a visa for China?

    http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/hzqz/zgqz/t84248.htm

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    I don't see what the issue is. Who would want to overstay their visit in China anyway.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mat:
    Do you know how much a visa for the US cost if you are not part of the few lucky holding a EU/Canadian passport and having visa free entrance?

    China bashing full speed as always.

    Yes, but how many Americans are overstaying their time in China? and historically how many Chinese have overstayed their time to get into the US?


    The US has a reason to request visa's from Chinese travelers (large enough percentage of Chinese would stay in the US if they could). As far as I know the Chinese don't have one for the US.

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    does that mean one can have two separate tix, in and out of Beijing, so no real stopover?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Morrison:
    does that mean one can have two separate tix, in and out of Beijing, so no real stopover?
    What it means is you need to be able to show that you will be flying for example HKG-PEK-[other desitnation] AND not HKG-PEK-HKG.

    Not clear as to whether you can have HKG-PEK PEK-[other desitnation] as two seperate tix.

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    http://www.iatatravelcentre.com may have some answers. But since the regulation will only start next year it's probably not in yet.

    The airlines have a similar (same?) databank with up to the minute visa data. If it said there ' transit' then they will not let you board the flight without visa.

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    Seems its now been extended to Shanghai (which apparently allowed 48 hours visa free):

    http://hktravelblog.com/2012/12/72-h...ai-and-beijing


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    Yes, you can have separate tickets. The immigration guy only looks at your onward ticket confirm and boarding pass from where you came from.

    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    What it means is you need to be able to show that you will be flying for example HKG-PEK-[other desitnation] AND not HKG-PEK-HKG.

    Not clear as to whether you can have HKG-PEK PEK-[other desitnation] as two seperate tix.

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    As I understand it, the 'visa exemption' will only be valid for Beijing (or Shanghai). Therefore, if you were to fly into Beijing, and fly out of Xi'an, you would still need a full visa even if less than 72 hours.