Editing China (section)

====Applying For a Visa in Your Home Country====

It is strongly advisable that you obtain your Chinese visa in your home country. It is impossible or near impossible to get a visa in some countries: at this time many of the eastern countries of the old USSR are reported to be a problem, as is South Korea.  In all case you can usually only get a single entry visa for 30 days outside the country of your passport.

The Chinese Government has a uniform policy on visa application fees, meaning no matter which Chinese embassy consulate or visa issuing office you are applying to for your Chinese visa (be it your home country, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand or Vietnam), you will pay the same application fee - ie. the only difference is that you are paying a different currency.  However, China has established offshoot visa processing services in some countries, which you must use, and you will find that these charge an additional processing fee.


Differences between different types of visa: [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=111&post=9158118 Discussion]