China has imposed further curbs on business and tourist visitors, just a week after it stopped issuing multiple-entry visas, Hong Kong travel agents were quoted saying.
“You now need a copy of your travel ticket both in and out of the country and a hotel voucher before they accept a visa application. Without that they will reject it,” Daryl Bending, a travel consultant with Concorde Travel, told AFP.
“I think it will deter a lot of people from travelling to China. They will just think it is too hard.”
Another agent was quoted saying that visitors from around 30 countries were no longer allowed to apply for China visas in Hong Kong and would have to apply at their local Chinese embassies.
“It is becoming more and more serious, it is really out of control,” the agent was quoted saying.
She added that visas were also now coming back much later.
A statement on the website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said that there had been a “recent drastic rise” in the number of applicants.
“To spare applicants of the unnecessary trouble, for non-resident of Hong Kong, please apply for the Chinese visa at the Chinese embassy or consulate-general in his or her home country or resident country,” it said.
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