UPDATE: Getting a Chinese Visa, Kazakhstan, June 2017
- Madeleine Knight
- Jun 19, 2017
- 2 min read
Most recent updated on getting a Chinese visa from bordering country.
Chinese visa laws change almost daily, making it incredibly difficult to find reliable information on your personal visa situation. For example, we left China 1 week ago (13th June 2017) and everyone we knew who had gone for a visa-run to neighbouring countries in the last month were declined.
A few websites we found useful during our research are:
We arrived in Kazakhstan, where the online information said we can not get any type of visa. We were also speaking to travel/visa agents in China and in Kazakhstan who all said it would be impossible without residency in Kazakhstan. The agents we used were:
Almaty agent:
Name: Nazmetova
Mobile: +77754447494
Astana agent:
Name: Lazzat Talgat
Address: Astana cit St, 40 Kenesary, BC, <7 Continent>, floor 9, No910
Mobile: +77026757376
Telephone: +77172968765
Email: talgat_astana@bk.ru
Website: www.tamirlan-ns.kz
With our hope of approval starting to fall apart a little we got together the paperwork needed for a tourist visa and went to the Chinese Consulate in Astana… where we applied for 1 month single entry visa… but were offered a 2 year, multiple entry visa, with 30 days per stay.
Price: 33,600Tinge ($100 approx., or $30 approx. for 30 day single entry)
Processing time: 7 days
Paperwork needed:
passport
copy of passport
2 x passport photo*
bank statement saying you have enough money to fund trip
visa application documents**
reservations for flights in AND out of China***
reservations for hotels throughout trip****
Office opening times: 9-12am Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Office Address: 28, Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, Astana (close to Khan Shatyr shopping mall)
After handing over passports we received a piece of paper as a receipt, which we must take to Qazkom Bank, No.12, Dostyk Street. We have 6 days to pay the total cost.
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If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know! This is our experience in Astana, Kazakhstan, in mid-June 2017, but PLEASE REMEMBER Chinese visa laws change ALL THE TIME.
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*They are VERY picky about this. We almost missed out on getting ours done on time because the line was huge for me to get my photos re-taken. It costs 750Tinge and is done in the first little building on the right of the gate to the Consulates (with a ‘V’ shaped roof).
**Can be found here [INSERT LINK]
***Can be faked through this website [INSERT LINK] with a step by step guide here [INSERT LINK]
****We did this through Booking.com by finding hotels that are ‘book now, pay later’.
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