Will my Chinese visa still be valid if I renew my passport?
Will my Chinese visa still be valid if I renew my passport? If so how does that work?
I have heard that you can travel with your new passport and just show the old passport with the valid visa when entering China. Has anyone done that? Recently?
I have also been told that you have to get a new visa, which seems somewhat logical but frustrating, especially when my Chinese visa is only a few months old.
My Chinese visa was issued in late Nov 2014 and I heard the rules changed between the US and China. My visa says it's good for 10 years and my US passport expires in 5.
Best Answer
When you renew your passport, you have to send the previous one to the passport office. When they return your old passport, they will invalidate it somehow. I have seen at least the following methods:
- Clip a corner off the cover (top right)
- Cut the cover page in half vertically
- Punch several holes along the right hand edge
If they punch holes in the right hand edge, it destroys the machine-readable area of the passport and any included visas. This will render your visa unusable. Some countries, if you request it, will use a method of invalidating your previous passport that does not destroy any existing visas that you have affixed to your passport. You will want to make sure that you can do this when you renew your passport.
I don't know specifically about whether or not China will accept a visa affixed to an old passport. Sometimes you will have to request a visa transfer from the foreign consulate, where they will print a new visa label and affix it to your new passport (this will likely cost money, of course).
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Answer 2
The China site says you just need to travel with old and new passport: http://www.mychinavisa.com/china-visa-faq/
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