New Chinese Visa Regulations to be implemented. According to that, it will have a lot of changes for the China visa new application (apply the visa outside of China) / extension (apply the visa in Shanghai) rules. We will keep updating our website focus on those changes if we get more information, feel free to refer to your friend if it helpful. Following are some changes we just get confirmed:

Some new visa type will be available: when you apply the China visa in the Chinese Embassy/Consulate outside of China, it will have 16 types of Chinese visas can be choose now. More details, Please check government website here. or you can download the new China visa introduction here: English version or Chinese version.

When your apply the Z visa in Hong Kong, you don't need to carry the medical check report anymore. But you need to carry your house rental contract or registration form of temporary residence or hotel booking document.

When you apply the Residence permit in shanghai, now it takes 7 working days instead of 15 working days.

When family member apply the family Residence permit in shanghai, before you only need to provide the marriage license and birth certificate copy, now they need it to be notarized by the Chinese Embassy/Consulate outside.

When a living partner (not married) apply the family residence permit in shanghai, before a certification from the applicant's consulate to prove they are living together as partner is enough, now they must register in their home country and the registration certificate must be notarized in the Chinese Embassy/Consulate outside.

All visa applicants are required to use the new Form from September 1, 2013

If your wife/husband is Taiwanese or HKese, you still can get 1 year family residence permit.

Before we have business F visa, not it is replaced by business/trading M visa. It's the same function at all. So for intern, they need to apply M visa to enter China for their internship now.

If your wife/husband is Chinese, you have chance to get 2 years family residence permit.

When you extend your tourist L visa in Shanghai, a big chance, the immigration officer might request you providing a Original certificate of bank deposit (1 day = 100USD deposit, so if you want to extend it maximum 30 days, then you have to show 3,000 USD or an equivalent of 19,500 RMB deposit in the bank certificate).

New! If you have working residence permit in shanghai, now you can sponsor your father and mother in law to get the same length family residence permit.

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【Important Notice】

All the above information is based on the public information of the government departments and our practical experience, such as the immigration authority, human resources and social security bureau and so on. If you decide to apply the visa or permit by yourself following the above documents list, we are not responsible for the loss of above information or other reasons. We recommend you to check with the government departments by yourself before submitting application documents. Please refer to the information provided by the government department.

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