Everything takes on a new look at the beginning of a new year. According to the statistics of the National Immigration Administration NIA, the border inspection authorities across China inspected a total of 5.179 million visitors entering or exiting the country during the New Year's holiday, with an average of 1.726 million visitors crossing the border daily, increasing by 4.7 times compared with ...

    2024-01-05

According to data from the National Immigration Administration NIA, China welcomed 214,000 visitors from France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Spain between December 1 to 31, 2023, following the implementation of China's unilateral visa-free policy for ordinary passport holders from these six countries, representing a month-to-month increase of 28.5 percent. Notably, 118,000 ordin...

    2024-01-05

On December 1, the first day of China's implementation of the visa-free entry policy for French, German, Italian, Malaysian, Dutch and Spanish citizens holding ordinary passports of their countries, a total of 2,029 visa-free entries from the six countries were recorded. Malaysian citizens topped the nationals from the other five with a total number of 1,113, while French citizens were responsible...

    2023-12-07

The National Immigration Administration NIA's government service platform has been upgraded following a redesign process, with the original mobile App and mini-programs on WeChat and Alipay, which were all previously known as "National Immigration Administration NIA" 移民局NIA, officially renamed "National Immigration Administration Government Service Platform 12367" 移民局12367 on November 30. The serv...

    2023-12-07

The new version of the Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card of the People's Republic of China was officially issued and activated on December 1. The new cards, which incorporate the five stars of the Chinese national flag and have therefore been nicknamed the "Five-star Cards", were issued on the its first day of issuance to 50 lucky foreign nationals whose applications for permanent residency in ...

    2023-12-07

The National Immigration Administration of China NIA holds a news conference in Beijing on Sept 15. It announces that a new version of the Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card of the People’s Republic of China will be officially issued and put into use from Dec 1 2023. The conference releases the new card sample at the same time. After the launch of the new card, the current version is still valid...

    2023-09-15

According to the National Immigration Administration NIA, starting from October 9, the government service platform of NIA will be added with more functions, including online appointment, inquiry and other functions related to foreigners' visas and other relevant documents. Specifically, it includes the following eight functions and services. The first one is online appointments for applications...

    2023-09-13

1.The High-level Forum on Regional Migration Governance Policies was held in Beijing, China from 26th to 28th June, 2023. The Forum was attended by the representatives of migration departments from Brunei Darussalam, Kingdom of Cambodia, Republic of Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Republic of the Philippines, Republic of Singapore, Kingdom...

    2023-06-29