China Entry Path Finder
Enter the passport, purpose, stay, and route conditions that decide which official China entry checks to complete next.
Open the source that matches your route
These pages support a verification order. They do not issue a visa, approve boarding, or promise admission.
Use this live index to find current national entry-policy notices and mutual-agreement routes.
Check the live nationality list, ordinary-passport condition, permitted purposes, and 30-day limit.
Check the third-country or region route, confirmed onward ticket, port, permitted area, and time limit.
U.S. jurisdiction example only. Use the Chinese mission responsible for your own place of residence.
What this result can do
The tool gives you an official check order only after the required route fields are complete. It does not decide that you qualify, issue a visa, approve boarding, or promise admission. Nationality alone is never enough: passport type, real purpose, entry date, stay length, full route, entry port, and current policy dates can all matter.
For a destination stay, the tool uses the current 30-day limit only to decide whether to show the cited unilateral visa-free route for checking. A longer stay is sent to a visa or exact-agreement check. For transit, enter the places immediately before and after China plus either the confirmed departure date and time or the total transit hours.
Open every recommended source and compare it with the document and itinerary you will actually use. If a booking changes, run the check again.
Keep the route private and small
The form runs in your browser. It does not need a passport number, date of birth, booking code, home address, or payment detail. Do not enter those items. The result is not saved as an official record.
If you save a personal note, record only the passport nationality and type, purpose, dates, entry port, previous and next country or region when relevant, official URL, and the date you checked it.
When the answer is still unclear
Call NIA 12367 at +86-12367 for immigration-policy questions or contact the Chinese embassy or consulate responsible for your place of residence. The U.S. Embassy source shown on this page is a U.S.-jurisdiction example only, not a global visa procedure. Give the responsible authority the exact conditions, not only a country name. Keep fixed bookings changeable until the permission route is clear.