Pen slash on my visa at immigration

[MaraKoma]

Hello All,

 

I just entered China on 180 days single entry family visit type.

 

While at the airport the immigration officer put a big slash mark with pen on the place where its written 180 days.I didn't knew it that time.When I left Shanghai for another city and was going through my passport I noticed the pen slash mark.In my previous visit here on a different visa nothing of that sort was done.

Can anyone point me on what exactly would that mean ? Would I have any problems in case of extension of the same visa or while exiting China ?

[anonymoose]

I don't think it means anything. I have pen slashes on most, but not all, of mine. I think it is probably just to show that the visa has been used.

[Yorin]

I've pen slashes of different shape and size on all of mine. I'm pretty sure it just means that you've used up all of your entries.

[fanglu]

It means no more entries.

[Lu]

Mine have pen slashes too. No need to worry about it!

[MaraKoma]

Thank you very much for the replies.You guys saved me from the pain of visiting the PSB as the PSB here(Harbin) is quite far from where I stay and its damn cold outside.

 

Its quite strange that China immigration uses pen to mark entries on the visas.For all the 14 countries I have visited till date of which 3 of them have been third world countries none of them used pen markings for entries.

 

Thank you very much once again for the replies.

[TomThomas]

Nah it's common. Thailand, Cambodia etc. all mark visas in some way.