Do tourists with 10 year 60 day visas need to check in with the PSB whenever they reenter China?
Do tourists with 10 year 60 day visas need to check in with the PSB whenever they reenter China?
Yes! Theoretically within 24 hours, and I always do it, although if it's on a weekend I find that the person in charge of registering me is not working until Monday morning. So I point out to them that, well, here I am today, see you again Monday (and at my PSB paichusuo it's all relaxed and friendly). But if, somewhere down the road, it is decided that lazy law-breaking 'tourist' foreigners are a problem I don't want to get jumped on as part of some category that 'they' do not like or whom they have lost patience with.
Alien, I agree the process is painless. Never had a problem showing up on Monday or even a day or two late.
In fact, the ladies that do the registration get to know you so it is all smiles, then you wait a few minutes. Then they give you your passport and the Registration Voucher and you say 好好,好的, with profuse 谢谢谢谢,再见,再见! A big smile helps too.
Seems a bit odd since I doubt that most "real" tourists coming to China have never heard of the PSB and often land wherever in China and then proceed to go on tours. I don't recall the customs people telling me to register (and most foreigners can't speak Chinese and probably couldn't find a PSB office
If you are staying in a hotel, they will do it for you. If you are staying with friends they will need to help you.
Air b'n'b seems to be a grey area, and there was a big news story on Kunming/Yunnan TV last week about unregistered visitors/tenants (Chinese nationals) in Dianchi Weichen area, and so I expect a clampdown on Air b'n'b type services in China as well as other countries now doing it.
As far as I know you only have to register at the local police bureau. That is if you not staying at a hotel or guesthouse that does the registration for you.
surprised they don't just attach a tracking device onto my passport. save me a trip, smirk
thats what mobile phones are for
why would they track your passport when they have facial recognition to track you.
I am from BJ. My flatmate was a non-Chinese. In July around less than one month before his work visa was expired, a policeman called. He also asked me to register telling that non-locals should do it if the stay was over 3 months in KM. In the evening two policemen came and photoed our documents with a special APP in the phone.