UK residents to have the ability to journey to China visa-free, Starmer publicizes in Beijing

Jacob Phillips
Live reporter

We do not but know when visa-free journey for anybody visiting China from the UK for below 30 days kicks in.

Under the present system, anybody making use of for a visa should achieve this on-line after which go in particular person to a China software centre in London, Manchester, Belfast or Edinburgh, in response to the UK authorities’s international journey recommendation.

There, your fingerprints could also be scanned and you’ll have your photograph taken, the recommendation provides.

Someone should submit an software on behalf of anybody aged 13 and below, or 71 and over.

Costs for UK candidates begin from £130 together with service charges for a two-year visa, a graphic on the Chinese Visa Application Center web site exhibits.

There are greater costs for 5-year and 10-year visas. All can be found by common, categorical or pressing providers.

But Brits don’t want a visa to go to the tropical island of Hainan within the south of China.

Tourist and enterprise visas don’t enable UK residents to work in China – you’ll be able to solely work if in case you have a piece visa – and anybody travelling to China should have no less than six months left on their passport from the date they arrive within the nation and two clean pages for visas and stamping, the international journey recommendation provides.