Can you get a Chinese tourist visa without an arrival date?
Sometimes I find some cheap flight tickets from Stockholm to Beijing and Shanghai. I know a Swede must have a visa for touristing in China but I don't know when I'd like to go as these cheap tickets aren't availabe all the time (a very special price code).
Can you get a Chinese visa without an arrival date?
The site visaforchina.org says I should submit arrival and departure dates as Supporting Documents - something I can't do as I can only say "within the next 6 months, less than 30 days stay".
Best Answer
No you can not, as you have read, the tourist VISA requires arrival and departure dates to be written on the application, and if requested tickets needs to be provided so you cannot just make them up, what you can do is apply for a business VISA, this works different in that a company would write an invitation letter stating that you would be needed in China for the period of Jan 1 to June 1 for example multiple times for meetings, that way you do not have to provide the actual dates when applying for the VISA, the are multiple companies who can help with this.
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You can apply for a China Business Visa on Arrival only if the purpose of your visit is Business. The China Business Visa on Arrival is only available to travelers whose point of entry is Shanghai Pudong International Airport.What are the requirements for China tourist visa?
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