So are you going to have a stay in china any soon? If you have, you would know that you need to register your visit to China as a foreigner. But do you have to re-register each time when you come to China after a stay in any foreign country? This answer is different for every person that has a visa versus the person having the residence permit. A person who has a visa must register after every move to any new place in China.
It may be a hotel or an apartment where he is staying. And every time he or she returns from any place in the abroad, he must have to get him self registered. The answer is never so clear in contrast to people holding any valid or an expired residence permit.
At the national level, instructions written by the Ministry of Public Security before the enhancement of Exit and the Entry administration Law say yes, then re-registration is needed. The draft regulations implementing the new law have said that the foreign national possessing the residence permit that indicates him or her residence location need not be re-registered for that accommodation when retraining from any other location. But the provision was deleted from final regulations; hence it is not authoritative.
- So check the local rules. For example, PSB in Fujian province and Guangzhou claims that a person having a residency permit returning to the previously registered china address must not be re-registered.
This explains all the queries you may have about getting re-registered in china after you have come from a stay in another country or abroad. According to the new Exit and Entry Law that came into effect on 1 July 2013, all the foreigners have to register with the local public security bureau within 24 hours of the arrival in-country. In comparison, a failure to do so may cost you a maximum fine of RMB 2,000.
Now you know registration is mandatory for people entering china with the Public Security Bureau through a local police station. Either you are a student who is studying in China, a business person, or a tourist, you will have to get registered.
In China, many foreigners keep entering and exiting the country for the whole year. But all of them are made to stay registered in china if they are planning to stay. Not doing this is out of law and you are convicted of a fine. You can stay in Airbnb in china as a foreigner, but this may be tricky if not impossible, to get a tourist visa.
There may be some complications; this is why you must be cleared of the visa process before you get an authoritative notice about the matter. So are you ready to come to china and pay your worthy visit?