China Visa Guide for Hong Kong

It is very easy to get a China tourist visa or China business visa in Hong Kong. I will tell you exactly how to do so in this short guide.

How to Get a China Visa in Hong Kong

1. For a China Business Visa - Prepare at least two business cards, a visa photograph, and your passport. The business cards should have your name, the name of the business or company you are a part of, an address, phone number, fax number, and email that are all based in a country other than China. Do not try to apply for a China business visa with a business address in China!
   
2. For a Tourist Visa - Prepare a visa photograph and your passport.
3. Go to Tsim Tsa Shui in Downtown Hong Kong - Scout and/or ask around until you find a somewhat legitimate looking tourist/visa office. To get your passport and visa back the same afternoon, you should arrive before 8:30 AM or so. To get it back the same day, anytime before 11:00 AM should be fine. If you turn in your passport later than this, you will probably have to wait until the next day to get your passport back.
4. Update: China Travel Services - If you’re running late (won’t make it downtown until after 11:00), go straight to the China travel services (中国旅行社) main office at the entrance to Wan Chai station on Hong Kong island.  I got a visa application in at 12:00 there once.

That’s it! It’s very easy to get a visa for China in Hong Kong.

Info on China Business Visas from Hong Kong

This information may be outdated by the time you read it, but a business visa from Hong Kong obtained in the manner proscribed above will take one of two forms. The first two times you get a business visa for mainland China in this manner, it will be a two-entry visa with each entry limited to 30 days. This visa should cost about HK$1350.

After you have used up two of this kind of visa (the third time you go for a business visa to mainland China), you can get a six-month, unlimited entry visa for HK$1600 or so. As an American, my visa has a restriction of 30 days for each ‘visit’ to mainland China (although I live here on a pretty much full time basis). People from other countries seem to get a China visa with no time restrictions besides the full six months of the visa.

Also note that if you get a different type of China visa at any time, you must start this process over again (first getting two two-month visas before you can get a six-month business visa).

Hope this helps someone out there get a business visa to China! People who are not part of a legitimate business have been known to get visas in this way, although I am not recommending this!

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1. 1|Kyle Burns says:
   

   ok guys…im a teacher in China..I have just come back from HK and now have Z visa. Its only a single entry..is this right when im here to June/Aug time.

   Also am i right in saying all i need to get now is a Resident Permit for about 10 months.