Valid national passports are required for persons traveling to China. You must have at least one blank page inside of the passport, and it must be valid for at least six months after your intended date of departure from China. Your passport must be a legal passport issued by your country of citizenship. You will have to submit your passport to the Chinese embassy while your application is being processed.
You will have to complete a visa application form. The application will require you to input information such as citizenship, passport, family, itinerary, education and work history information. The application will require you to submit one additional passport photo along with the visa application.
Work or study visas may require additional documentation such as verification of employment, or verification of acceptance into a Chinese university.
You will have to submit the visa application as well as all additional documentation to the nearest Chinese embassy or consulate to your place of residence. Also, when you submit the visa application, you will also be required to supply a money order to pay for the visa processing fee, which is nonrefundable.
Due to tighter restrictions put in place by the People's Republic of China, you may be requested to come to the Embassy for a personal interview with an immigration officer. Also, although multiple entry visas have been granted in the past, most of the visas that the Embassy of China approves are single-entry visas that are meant to be used within a specified 90-day period.
American citizens are allowed to enter the Hong Kong for 90 days or less for tourism without a visa. If they wish to work, study, or live in Hong Kong for any period of time, all American citizens must apply for the appropriate visa. If you are not an American citizen, check with the Hong Kong Department of Immigration to see if you will be allowed to enter the Hong Kong without a visa, or what the appropriate visa is that you will need file before your departure.
Citizens of fifty-three countries (including the United States and Canada) are eligible to enter Macao for a purpose of tourism without a visa. Once again, if you wish to work or study in Macao, then you must apply for the appropriate visa before you leave your country of residence.
