Answer to One China Travel Question
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Q: My accomodation is in hong kong, and I will go in and out of guangzhou to Hong kong daily. I'm a Singapore Permanent Resident but holding a Malaysian passport. Would I need to get a China multiple entry visa to do so, or I do not need to as hong kong is considered china's SAR?
| | A: Citizens of many countries can stay in Hong Kong for a certain period without visa. To enter China proper, however, they need visa. There is a visa exempt treatment for Singaporean citizens. This treatment is for those who hold ordinary (meaning not for officials, diplomats, journalists, etc.) Singaporean passports who visit China for no more than 15 days for the purpose of sightseeting or family-visiting (not for work, study, etc.). Citizens of other countries should have visa. So you should have visa to visit China. There are single entry tourist visa, double entry tourist visa, and 6 month multiple entry tourist visa.
If you tour as a member of a traveling groups organized by a travel agency registered in Hong Kong and Macau and visit only certain cities in Guangdong (Guangzhou is one of them) then you may use a group visa.
If you're going stay in a hotel and have to go to Guangzhou on a daily basis, wouldn't be more convenient, and possibly less expensive to stay in Guangzhou? It takes about two hours to go from central part of Hong Kong to Guangzhou.
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