Hi, I'll be taking my Chinese gf to hk with me next month. Does anyone know whether there's any visa or entry requirements for mainland passport holders? Thank you for your help.
Paul

Yes, and your gf should know about it.

yeah its a blue book they have to get and pay for X number of entries. Not hard to get takes a week.

Each stay is only limited to 7 days as well, if I remember correctly I took the mrs over to HK last year. Yah you need to get the blue book as everyone said.

Hi thanks for the replies. My girlfriend is from Jiangsu province, so looks like we may need to go through with a tour group... Can anyone please tell me which tour group you recommend, and how we can locate them? Is the tour group a SH company or Shenzhen company? Also is this route reliable? I'm a little worried about getting turned back on the border after paying for the flights...

I asked my girlfriend about the blue book, and she seems to think that you need this to return from HK to SH, can anyone please confirm?

Thank you very much.
Paul

No you need it to enter HK and Macau. The blue book is a LIKE a visa to enter HK. As you are entering a diffrent zone. The term 1 country, 2 systems very much applies. The exit and entry forms for China and HK and desks are different and not joined in anyway.

My gf has a Bluebook which has 3 visits to HK and 2 to Macau, she is shanghainese.

Some provinces require stricter controls and you need to go with a tour group. I would
get you gf to look up some of the tour groups as there has been some bad press over
the last year about these groups.

I am sorry, but, should she not be able to find readily available information from local websites/visa offices?

CaptainCook wrote:Yes, and your gf should know about it.

Benoist_Shanghai wrote:I am sorry, but, should she not be able to find readily available information from local websites/visa offices?

Exactly my thought. I find it absurd ask this on an expat website.

Fair question to be honest.

Many expats have a Chinese girlfriend - so maybe they have been through the same process. Also, maybe the girlfriend is a thicko and can't search for information on her own.

^^ or maybe he has experience with his gf not giving him the full story and been caught out before - ie she is a thicko (love that term)
also like thick as a brick or not the sharpest tack

Frankly - if some of my GF's would ask me this I would tell her "Why TF are you asking ME ? You are Chinese and this is China for God's sake" and would seriously consider end it for her stupidity/incompetence/lazyiness/. Should work opposite direction - if YOU need something from Chinese government SHE should take care of it.

Besides that, guys, why shouldn't he ask ? Doesn't hurt anyone ....

It actually hurts him. Beeing pusşy-whipped...