Tourist visa work

1. Different visa recipients:

Tourist visa is a kind of visa, which is generally a quick way to apply for a visa in order to develop tourist resources for the convenience of tourists.

Work visas are aimed at foreign workers who come to their home countries.

2. The handling requirements are different:

Work visa generally needs: employment permit, work invitation letter, employment permit, one-year residence permit, etc.

Tourist visa requirements: to apply for an individual tourist visa, you must provide an official letter from the reception unit; If there is no reception unit, an economic certificate that can guarantee the living expenses in China must be provided. Applications for group tourist visas will not be accepted in principle. For reasons of force majeure, you can apply for a zero-time group visa with a valid period corresponding to the actual situation, and you can only apply once, and you must provide an official letter from the reception unit.

3. Different handling procedures:

【 Work Sign 】:

The employing unit shall apply for the Employment Permit for Foreigners before it intends to hire foreigners to work in China. The employer who is allowed to employ the foreigner shall present the Employment Permit Certificate for Foreigners issued by the administrative department of labor security;

Foreigners who are allowed to come to China for employment should apply for professional visas at China's embassies and consulates abroad on the strength of the license issued by the labor department, the letters and telegrams from the authorized units and their valid passports or certificates that can replace passports;

The employing unit shall, within fifteen days after the entry of a foreigner who has obtained a professional visa, go to the Labor and Social Security Bureau with the relevant materials to handle the Alien Employment Certificate for the foreigner. Foreigners who have obtained employment certificates should apply to the public security department for residence permits within 30 days after their entry.

[Travel sign]:

Foreigners' visas should be applied to the Exit-Entry Administration Office of the Municipal Bureau, and I will apply in person. Among them, relatives can be represented by their relatives in China; Group tourists can be handled by the reception travel agency; The doctor can be handled by relatives or reception units.

Foreigners who want to travel to China need to apply for a tourist (L) visa from China's embassies and consulates abroad. Those who travel to China in groups of more than nine people can apply for a group tourist (L) visa. Foreigners who go to Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Xiamen Special Economic Zones may apply for "Special Zone Tourist Visa" directly to the above-mentioned port visa authorities.

If you stay in Hainan Province for business, tourism and visiting relatives for no more than fifteen days, you can temporarily apply for an entry visa at Haikou or Sanya Port. Foreigners in Hong Kong do not need to apply for an entry visa to travel to Shenzhen Special Economic Zone for 72 hours.

Source of reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-China Work Visa

Source of reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tourist Visa

1. No matter which country or region holds a tourist visa, you are not allowed to engage in any work in the local area. Workers must apply for a job or a visa of the corresponding type.

2. Many countries, even if they have obtained local visas, are required to show round-trip air tickets to show that the immigrants will leave the country on schedule.

3. Even with a visa, officials of the Immigration Department still have the final decision to decide whether or not to allow entry. This can be handled by complaining to senior officials of the Immigration Department. However, the Immigration Department has the final decision to allow entry, not the visa in hand.

4. In reality, some China passport holders use tourist visas to enter the country, for the sake of work, which causes fixed thinking for immigration officials in some countries and focuses on examining Chinese faces.