Got an X-Visa. Multi-Entry?

[syu.edu]

Hello,

some days ago i got my X-Visa but it says i can only enter PRC for once. The guy who gave the Visa to me told me i can enter China multiple times when i registered by the local police (or some departement for aliens).

Is this true? Because i think, since i live so close to Hong Kong (and since I like Hong Kong very much) that i'd like to make some visits to Hong Kong. Can someone help me.

[roddy]

I'm going to warn you that I've never had a student visa so I might be wrong.

For work and student visas you need to get a residence permit in the first month you are in China. Previously the residence permit was just a residence permit and if you wanted to go out and come in again you needed a re-entry visa.

However (for work visas, in major cities, at least) the residence permit now doubles as a multiple re-entry permit. I assume this is the same for student visas, so when you have the residence permit, you will effectively have a multiple exit / entry permit and can go to HK as much as you want.

Can anyone confirm this?

Roddy

[syu.edu]

thanks for now roddy... hopefully i will be able to leave and enter china as often as i want.

[sui.generis]

However (for work visas' date=' in major cities, at least) the residence permit now doubles as a multiple re-entry permit. I assume this is the same for student visas, so when you have the residence permit, you will effectively have a multiple exit / entry permit and can go to HK as much as you want.

Can anyone confirm this?

Roddy[/quote']

I can. When I got my first residence permit in August, it was a seperate book and didn't work that way. But when I renewed a month or so ago, they gave me a new type of permit inside my Passport, and told me it allowed for multiple re-entry. Although, I don't recall if it's all-you-can-eat or not.

[syu.edu]

thanks a lot guys.

[liuzhou]

I can confirm the new residence permit (issued as a page in a passport rather than a seperate book) also doubles as a re-entry visa (or more correctly takes away the need for a visa - you are a resident of the mainland for the validity of the permit, after all.)

And what's more, I've just tested the system with a trip to Hong Kong. Went out and back in with no problems!

More here

[lakesandrivers]

This thread, and others like it, clarified the mystery for me. I was wondering, "Since an X visa is single entry, what, am I locked up from leaving - since upon leaving I cannot get back in on the same X visa?" Hence the residence permit as a page in the passport ...

 

But has anything changed recently (>= 2017)?

Still going through google search "site:chinese-forums.com x visa entry" giving 165 results ... 

[DavyJonesLocker]

Thread is from 2005 . Best check difference between x1 and x2 visa. Only university's and some private schools with some sort of affiliation to an official educational institution can give (>6 months) x1  visa . Its very hard for a private school to assist in an x1 as they need to send you a JW202 form. In Beijing there is only one school that can do that as far as I'm aware. The

X1 allows mulity entry (via residents permit) 

 

My friend just renewed his x1 for about the 12th time 

[lakesandrivers]

5 hours ago, DavyJonesLocker said:

need to send you a JW202 form

 

Thank you, DavyJonesLocker. In their acceptance letter, the Uni did specify they will send a JW202.

Say, why did your friend need to keep renewing his X1?

[DavyJonesLocker]

38 minutes ago, lakesandrivers said:

Thank you, DavyJonesLocker. In their acceptance letter, the Uni did specify they will send a JW202.

Say, why did your friend need to keep renewing his X1?

 

 

I went to a private language school at the time and they sent me the (stamped by the Ministry of education) JW202 form in the post to the UK. i had to present this form to the Chinese embassy in London to apply for an X1 visa. 

 

I remember at the time I rang a heap of language schools in china and were promising that they could get an X1 visa. When i pressed them on the JW202 form they avoided the question. I think it was their plan to keep applying for the X2 but i wanted multi entry visa so wasn't falling for empty promises.  Although, universities should have no issue sending you a JW202 form but best check with others on here as to what the actual procedure is.

 

My friend is retired and has been going to private language schools for more than ten years now. It allows him to obtain a multi enter visa and keeps him occupied. He doesn't want to join a uni given the vast age gap. He signs up for a year at the time so gets a yearly (well a max of 330 days for some reason) every time. I assume a Uni would give a 3 year visa

[lakesandrivers]

Wow *respect* Your friend must be a linguistics professor by now, in all Chinese dialects and accents.

 

As I kept digging, at some point I read, and was surprised, that the JW202 form and official admission notice are actual physical papers that sit in an airplane (surely not a ship). With the nearby consulate stipulating 1-4 days for urgent-normal visa processing, looks like this airmail from Shenyang to Brisbane would be the longest step in the process of kicking off my education.

 

Hehe