The time requirements of the visa for Customs clearance of personal items

9th June 2016,  the time requirements of Customs clearance of personal items on the "foreign expert certificate" / "Alien Employment Permit" "residence permit"

Recently, some foreigners told us they got great trouble to the customs clearance for importing personal articles, just because the valid period of “foreign expert’s certificate", "alien employment permit", or "residence permit" is less than one year (365 days). IF the foreigner, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese need to the customs clearance of imported personal articles, the employer should sign the labor contracts more than 1 year (365 days), and apply one or one more year “foreign expert’s certificate", "alien employment permit", or "residence permit".

To customs clearance, customs need to check the valid period of “foreign experts certificate", "alien employment permit", or "residence permit" ("foreign experts certificate" / "employment card" issued by Human Resources and Social Security Bureau; "residence permit" is issued by the Exit-Entry administration bureau) to define whether it belongs to “Long-term non-resident passengers” or not. If the period of permit is more than a year (365 days),including one year.it can be identified as non-resident passengers identity, the customs will handle the installation procedures of entry goods; if the time period is less than 365 days, it will be identified as short-term passenger identity for imported goods procedures.

“Long-term non-resident passengers” refers to the foreign citizens, individuals from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese who are ratified to enter China Customs territory by the police and continuously reside in China Customs territory for one year（i.e. 365 days）or more than one year, and shall return to the settling places out of China Customs territory on the expiration of residence.

Therefore, The HR should ask whether employee need the clearance or not, if yes, suggest signing one year (365 days) or one more year labor contract, The HR should tell the officer you want apply one year or one more year "foreign experts certificate" or "alien employment permit".

More details about how to apply it, please check it with our visa consultant.

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