The general consensus on the web seems to be that you have three options:
- Go through a travel agent.
- Apply for a visa with the Chinese embassy in your home country.
- Go to Hong Kong and spend a few days waiting for the visa to be processed.
According to this Chinese Forums post, going via a travel agency will involve shipping your passport to a neighbouring country/republic with a Chinese embassy.
If however you feel like going on a visa run in Hong Kong, note that this guy did it, back in 2007, in 10 hours of which 4 were needed to process the visa application. There seems to be a reliable travel agent, China Travel Services, with a desk at the airport just outside of immigration which can help with this type of procedures. Indeed, another more recent thread from the same forum as the 2007 guy, dating from 2013, mentions this company and the straightforward visa application procedure.
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4 Mar, 2024
4 Mar, 2024