Required Documents
1. Certificate of your residence approval. The applicant may entrust his relatives in China to transact the certificate for your residence approval with the local authorizes (the administration for supervising the enter/leave the country);
2. Your valid and actual passport with blank visa pages and at least 6-month period of validity (counting from the day you submit the application);
3. Fill in the Application Form, attached with 2-inch passport photo (black & white or colored are all accepted).
4. A Physical Examination Certificate.
Note: Please fill in the application form faithfully, completely and clearly, or possibly your application will be refused and accordingly make your oversea trip protracted.
Transact Way
The applicant can handle the visa personally, or entrust other people, travel agency and visa handling agency to transact the visa he wants according to different consular jurisdiction of the embassies or consulate-general.
1. Make an appointment ahead of time is NOT needed.
2. Application by mail is not accepted, but the postal service back to you is provided.
3. The normal processing time for handle the visa generally is 4 working days. If you need urgent service, 30 US dollars will be added as the additional fee for 1 working day processing while 20 US dollars for 2 to 3 working days processing.
Visa Expense, Validity and Duration of Stay
1. VISA, MasterCard, Money Order, Cashier's check, Company's Check and Cash are all accepted (based on the written stipulation), but you are suggested to pay for the visa expense by cash due to the actual experience.
2. Visa Fee: the fee is different according to your nationality and the number of entries. Generally speaking, the fee is higher if the number of entry is more. For US citizens, 140 US dollars per person/visa while 30 US dollars for citizens of other countries if you apply the visa in the Chinese Embassy in the USA.
3. The period of validity of D visa is 6 months for only once. The visa holder should enter China within six months and transact the correlated residential procedure at local public security bureau in the following 30 days after you enter China.
