China confirms visa-free travel for UK and Canadian nationals

[londons_explore]

The old policy was visa-free travel for 10 days (they called it a transit visa, but you didn't need to be transiting and didn't need to do paperwork in advance or pay).

Now it's 30 days.

Great, but it really doesn't seem like as big a change as politicians are pretending it is.

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The new policy is not an updated version of China's 240-hour visa-free transit policy which is limited to a handful of ports.

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-visa-free-travel-p...

[thenthenthen]

Its pretty great imho, you can just fly to China and walk through the border. Not hotel reservations needed, no return flight needed, no bank statements, oh yeah and its free. On the other hand China is continuing to restrict work-residence permits, raising the required income and experience requirements.

[rjh29]

The 10 day transit visa explicitly required proof of onward journey and it couldn't be the same place you came from. That's the kicker. The current policy allows round trip visits anywhere for 30 days.

[nobodywillobsrv]

Isn't visa free travel just going to create more problems at the border where border force has very little time and no paper work to review your case?

Pre applying is usually less stressful as you are trying to do your best to show that are ok. Just showing up is a not great for either side.

I often wonder the reasoning.

[OJFord]

Do you mean specifically because it's China? Otherwise, no, have you not travelled anywhere that doesn't need a visa? Like (assuming from the UK) Canada, the USA, almost(?) anywhere in Europe? It's fine, there's very little 'review your case' to happen.