All travelers with Dutch nationality, both tourist and business, need a visa for China. However, there are 3 exceptions:

• People with a Chinese passport
• Persons traveling only to Hong Kong with a maximum stay of 90 days
• Persons who arrive in China for a transfer, do not leave this airport and leave China within 24-72 hours, provided they hold a Dutch or Belgian passport and land at one of these airports:
  • Baiyun International Airport
  • Beijing Capital International Airport
  • Jiangbei International Airport
  • Pudong International Airport
  • Shanghai Hongqiao Airport
  • Shuangliu International Airport
  • Taoxian International Aiport
  • Xianyang International Airport
  • Zhoushuizi International Airport

If you want to go to China for a holiday or business trip, you must apply for a regular visa before entering the country. The visa is a sticker issued by the Chinese government and affixed to the passport. With this visa you have permission to enter the territory of China. This visa is usually issued by the Embassy of China or the Consulate General of China in The Hague.
The visa will be checked during passport control in China. If you arrive by plane, the first visa check will probably already take place at the airport.
Our staff will work professionally to ensure that your visa application for China is presented flawlessly at the Chinese consulate or embassy, so you can travel with confidence.

If you want to stay with family (up to 180 days) or friends (up to 30 days), an invitation letter is mandatory, this letter must:

• Be written in Chinese or English
• State the entry and exit dates
• Provide the passport details of the traveler
• State the relationship between traveler and invitee
• Include the name, address and contact details of the invitee
• Dated and signed by the invitee

A copy of the Chinese identity card of the invitee must also be submitted. If this person is not a Chinese citizen, a copy of the passport of the other nationality and a copy of his / her residence permit must be provided.

Various visas are available for China. The type of visa depends on your destination. The most common are a visa for tourist reasons or a visa for business purposes. However, you also have a visa for journalists, a student visa for China, a work visa, a transit (transfer) visa and a visa on a personal invitation.
The purpose of your trip determines the type of visa you need to apply for. If you are unsure which visa is most applicable to your situation, do not hesitate to contact us! Our employees can advise you on this.

Yes, anyone traveling, regardless of age, must be able to present a visa when entering China. This means that everyone must therefore also have their own passport (children are therefore not credited in the passport of a parent / guardian), which will contain the visa.

As of December 2019, China has a new arrangement that all travelers between the ages of 14 and 70 must provide their biometric information before applying for a visa. This means that, upon receipt of your documents, we will contact you by telephone to schedule an appointment at the Chinese visa application center in The Hague where your fingerprints will be taken. Our service includes this standard appointment assigned in order of entry. You can also make use of emergency appointments in urgent cases

No, after you have provided your biometric data, you can apply for a new visa without having to make an appointment again, if you travel with the same passport within 5 years.

Pay attention! You may be invited to come to an interview. This is different from the biometric data appointment and should be done at the embassy itself instead of in the Visa Application Center.

How long you can stay in China depends on the type of visa you apply for. Visas can be requested with a validity of 3, 6, 12 months.
Please note: additional conditions are attached to the 6 and 12 month visa!

When applying for the visa for China, you can choose 1, 2, or an unlimited number of entries.
Please note: extra conditions apply for applying for a visa with the right to multiple entries.

The costs for the visa for China vary depending on the type of visa, processing time, and the method of submitting and returning your passport. You can find the base price for the China visa on this page.

If, after paying your visa, you have not received an email from us within an hour, first check the junk mail folder (spam box). Didn’t receive an email there either? Please contact us by phone or e-mail via the contact page.

The visa application procedure for Indonesia starts online. To do this, open the online application form. After filling in all the details of the traveler (s) concerned, the application can be paid very simply. It is possible to do so with iDeal, Bancontact, Paypal or with Credit Card. When the payment has been completed you will receive (within a maximum of 1 hour) an email from us with instructions on how to deliver the required documents. To deliver these documents, you can choose to drop them off at our office, send them by registered mail or courier, and you can also use our secure collection service.
Once the documents are received by us in Hoofddorp, we will thoroughly check the package for you. We will adjust the data that we can do ourselves where necessary. If we miss data, we will contact you by telephone or email.
As soon as the package is ready and in accordance with conditions, we will go to The Hague with the application. When we submit the documents, we will be informed whether additional documents are being requested. Even then we will contact you directly.
After granting the visa, you will receive the passport with the visa for China back from us. You can select the method of return in the application form, namely; Registered mail, DHL courier, personal collection from our office or ready at Schiphol.

The visa application for China is possible between 90 days and about 3 weeks before departure, depending on the visa type you have chosen. You can also use our emergency procedure. To ensure that the visa is issued on time, we recommend that you submit the application a few weeks before departure.

Yes, the visa for China can also be applied for urgently. You can choose from 2, 3 or 4 working days procedures on the application form. More information about the extra costs and operation of these procedures can be found on the page with costs and delivery times visa China.

This depends on the type of visa, but you must travel within the validity dates specified on the visa. If you have changed your trip and it is no longer within the validity of the visa, you must apply for a new visa.

Please note that for China you must already be in possession of both a hotel confirmation (or an invitation if the stay will be with friends or family) and a flight schedule by name, for both the outward and return journeys.

No. After obtaining your first single or double entry visa, it is possible to apply for a multiple entry visa, with which you can travel in and out of the country several times. Here, however, the requirement applies that you can present a copy of an old visa (which is not older than 12 months) and that you have at least 3 Chinese stamps in your passport, all three not older than 1 year.
In all other cases it is possible to request a double entry, but you must be able to prove by means of a flight and hotel confirmation when you will enter the country both times.

Yes, it is possible to add multiple travelers traveling to China together on one application form. Because a lot of data only has to be entered once, this can save a lot of input. Ask us about the possibilities.

There are several submission methods available: you can drop off your documents at our office in Hoofddorp, send them yourself (registered mail or courier), or have us pick them up (the next day or, in urgent cases, on the same day).

Sometimes our pickup service can be utilized on the same day. The availability and costs of this depend on the pickup location, the time of day, and the workload of our courier service. Additionally, the costs for next-day pickup also depend on the pickup location.

You can contact us by phone for more information about our pickup service options.

There are several ways to receive your passport back with the visa for China. In the online application form, you can indicate your preferred option: picking it up yourself at our office in Hoofddorp, picking it up at Schiphol, courier delivery the next working day, registered mail, or courier delivery on the day of approval (surcharge upon request)*.

*Please call us to inquire about the possibilities, as this is not always feasible.

The prices are per application and not per visa. If multiple visas are requested with one application form, the shipping costs remain the same (with a maximum of 4 passports per shipment).

After submitting the online application form, you need to complete the payment. You can do this with iDeal, PayPal, Bancontact, or credit card. If there is a surcharge for the pickup and/or delivery method you have chosen, it will be added directly to the total amount.

If you use a customized express courier service (for pickup and/or return), the costs will be invoiced afterwards.

The information and documents you need to provide depend on the purpose of your trip (tourist or business), the number of entries required for China, and the desired validity period of the visa. After you have submitted the online visa application for China, you will receive a personalized email from us with instructions on how to submit the necessary documents for your situation.

You can enter nine zeros (000000000) in the input field on the application form.

You must enter all given names as they appear on your passport or identity card. If you have multiple given names, make sure to enter all of them.

An emergency passport is not accepted.
What your passport must meet is depending on what type of visa you apply for online, especially it is important that the passport is valid long enough.

• With single-entry visa and valid for 3 months: passport valid for at least another 6 months on arrival.
• With a double-entry visa and valid for 3 months: passport valid for at least another 7 months on first arrival.
• With a double-entry visa and valid for 6 months: passport valid for at least another 12 months on first arrival.
• With unlimited number of entries and valid for 12 months: passport valid for a minimum of 18 months upon first arrival.

In addition to the validity requirement of the passport, it is also required that at least 3 opposite pages in the passport are still empty. The passport may also not be delivered with a cover or cover.
Do you live in the Netherlands, but do you have a passport issued in/from another country? Then you must also have a Dutch residence permit.

Document numbers in the Netherlands never contain the letter “O”, but they can contain the number “0”. Even though it seems that there is a letter O in your passport, it will be the number 0. It is also important to know that document numbers in the Netherlands are 9 characters long.
Belgian document numbers may include the letter (s) “O” and / or the number “0”. Belgian document numbers are 8 characters long and always start with 2 letters followed by 6 numbers.

The schedule should include all flights you make to, within, and from China. Even if you apply for a double or a multiple entry visa, all flights must already be booked and must be stated in the schedule. You must also be able to provide the booking confirmations for all flights.

Each traveler also has to provide a full schedule per day of all activities you’re planning to do while in China, such as sightseeing and resting days.

Yes, for China you need to demonstrate that the visa is genuinely necessary. You do this by submitting a travel itinerary with confirmations of all flights to, from, and possibly within China, as well as confirmation of all hotel bookings for the first trip.

If you are employed by an organization, you must submit an employer’s statement, even if you are not traveling for business. After completing the online form, you will receive a sample by email, which only needs to be filled out and signed by your employer.

The information and documents you need to provide depend on your travel purpose (tourist or business), the number of entries required for China, and the desired validity period of the visa. After you have submitted the online visa application for China, you will receive a personalized email from us with instructions on how to submit the necessary documents for your situation.

After you have submitted the online application form and payment has been completed, you will receive the embassy form by e-mail. This form will be filled in for you by a visa expert with the information you entered on the online form. All you have to do is sign this form and submit it to us together with the other documents (passport photo, passport etc.).

In order to obtain a business visa for China, you must provide an English letter of invitation. A sample of this will be sent by e-mail immediately after submitting your online application.
The invitation letter must contain at least:

• Information about the traveler (full name, gender and date of birth, nationality, job title, passport number, date of issue of the passport and expiry date of the passport)
• Description of which business activities
• An explanation of who pays the travel insurance
• The required period of validity as well as the number of entries required
• All entry and exit dates with the destination per individual trip
• Must be signed and stamped with the Chinese company stamp

It is possible that additional information is requested on the basis of the information provided by you. This mainly occurs when the traveler performs technical / specialist work.

If your invitation letter does not have a serial number, you can enter nine zeros (000000000) in the input field.

If you cannot provide an employer’s statement but are following a course as a student / pupil, you must provide a statement from that educational institution, even if the trip is touristy and has nothing to do with the course.

After completing the online form you will also receive an example by e-mail, on which you will find exactly what should be in this statement.

All applicants under the age of 18 for a China visa traveling alone or with one of their parents must have a letter of consent written in English signed by the parent (s) / guardian and a copy of the parent (s) / passport provide guardian.
They must also provide a copy of the birth certificate.

If you are unemployed and not pursuing an education, or if you are retired, you must be able to demonstrate that you have sufficient financial resources to cover your stay in China (at least €100 per person per day) by providing a copy of your bank statement.

If you are an independent self-employed person or entrepreneur, in addition to your own employer statement, you must also apply for an extract from the Chamber of Commerce (in English, no more than 1 year old, at the Chamber of Commerce). The most recent turnover tax return must also be submitted.