On this page below you will find all the information you need for your visa application

• The order form, click here to open
• Please fill in digitally, print out and sign it

Option 1: the new application form. This application form is mandatory from 9 May.
Click here to fill in online.

• Please note, the photo you need to upload (in JPEG format!) Must have a white background, otherwise, you cannot upload it. (The file must be between 106 Kb and 140Kb!)
• Please note, the last question (section 10), you must state that you are going to the consulate yourself. Only then can we offer your visa application at the consulate.
• Follow the instructions in the manual. After the download please print and sign.
• With the new system that the consulate uses, you can only go to the consulate with a booking. If you are in a hurry to apply for your visa, due to your departure or for any other reason, you can call us and reserve a reservation at the consulate by telephone. We will make a booking and send it to you by e-mail so that you can print it.
• If you are not in a hurry, we will automatically make a booking once your documents have been received by us.
  The reservation system of the Chinese consulate only makes reservations 3 weeks in advance.

• Follow the instructions in the manual. After the download please print and sign.

• A statement from the Chinese consulate regarding the processing of your personal data that you share with the consulate.
• Click here to open and sign
• You will see that there are two places for a signature on the last page
• The top one is for you when you sign the statement yourself.
• The lower one is for when you sign for someone else. For whom the statement is, he or she does not have to sign themselves.

• Your passport.
• We need to have the passport physically, so no copy.
• Your passport must still be valid for at least 6½ months after the validity of the visa (ie one and a half year valid if it is an annual visa).
• The passport must have at least two blank facing visa pages.

• A copy of the passport of the applicant
• Note that you also need to provide the original passport as requested on this page

• One color passport photo.
• Note that these photos are according to the Dutch standard of ‘passport photo’, that is to say, looking forward, white background, do not laugh and do not show teeth.
• Wearing glasses in the photo is not permitted
• Nine times out of ten, the consulate does not accept a photo from your own printer. If you do so, make sure you use gloss paper and there are no stripes visible from the print.
• Do not staple the photo to the application form, but rather use a Pritt stick. If you do not have a Pritt stick, please include your loose photo and we will attach it to the form for you.
• Do not stick the photos with adhesive tape

Other conditions that you must pay extra attention to:

• The photos may not be older than 3 months
• The photos may not be the same as on the passport unless the passport is not older than 3 months
• The photos must have a white background.

A visa application is possible again. You do not need a flight booking at this time! We will leave the information below for a while, for the moment that China suddenly starts demanding a flight booking again. When you complete the application form, you must answer the question about your flight! That information you need to prepare by researching the flight numbers.

Booking flight for a double entry

You are only entitled to a tourist double entry when you have to enter the mainland of China twice in your trip but you have to prove this with a booking confirmation.

• The booking confirmation from the Netherlands to China and back to the Netherlands
• If, in the meantime, you fly from mainland China to Hong Kong (or Macau or abroad) and return to mainland China, you should provide the booking confirmation of the flights to show that you indeed need a double entry.
• The booking confirmation may also be of a train, boat or bus.

Sometimes we are also able to request a double entry through hotel booking in Hong Kong. You’ll need the flight from the Netherlands (or another country) and back, then a hotel booking in Hong Kong or Macau with a clear date which is between your arrival and departure date on your flight ticket. This option is a bit dependent on the Chinese official who handles your application. If it does not work, you simply need the booking confirmation from the flight, bus, boat or train to request the double entry.

• A booking of the hotel for a minimum of one night

• Please note, if you fly directly to Hong Kong and also fly back from Hong Kong, China, you will also need
  
  a hotel booking in mainland China to prove that you indeed will stay in China.

• If you have visited Turkey and it is visible in your passport through stamps, you will probably be invited by the embassy within 24 hours (only on business days) after your visa application has been accepted by the consulate

• If an interview takes place at the request of the embassy, there will be a delay in the duration of the procedure
• In busy periods the waiting time can even increase to a few weeks, in the quiet period a number of working days
• You must then bring an extra color passport photo
• The duration of the visa application procedure will not start until the embassy has given its approval to the consulate.

   

Since 7 of August 2017, a number of additional documents are required with your application, depending on your situation you need:

• If you work for an employer, you need:
  (a) An employer’s declaration (click here for an example in a WORD file).
  (b) The declaration must be printed on your company’s letterhead or stamped with the company

• If you have your own company, you need:
  (1.) 1.) An English language extract from the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, not over three months, and your name must be mentioned on the extract.
  (2.) Plus your last VAT return, even if it may have been a zero declaration

• If you are retired:
  A recent bank statement with your name and your last pension deposit:
  B.) Your name stated
  C.) with a minimum of € 3000

• If you are a student from the age of 16: A statement or recent registration from your school (proof of enrollment)

• You are a student: an English proof of participation from your school

• You are unemployed:
  A recent bank statement with:
  B.) Your name stated
  C.) With a minimum of € 200 per day that you are going to stay in China

• You are a housewife or househusband:
  A bank statement with:
  B.) Your name stated
  C.) with a minimum of € 200 per day that you are going to stay in China unless your working spouse travels with you to China
  D.) In the event that your spouse is traveling with you, you need a bank statement with a minimum of € 3000 on your bank account

• The above information is required to present your visa application at the consulate, however, The consulate is authorized to request additional statements or documents that may delay your visa application.

• A travel report
• This must be addressed in English to the Embassy of China in The Hague

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
Willem Lodewijklaan 10
2517 JT The Hague

• short description of which cities you will visit
• Provide your name
• Signature
• Date

Note the information about minors is not related to the type of visa on this page! As an example, a minor has not the right to apply for a work or business visa or many other types of visas! Only in the case that a minor is traveling with an adult or parent or parents, or even alone, you will need to use these extra documents. Minors in the Netherlands have their own passport and are not registered in the passport of the parents, as it the case for other countries! That means that minors need always to apply for their own, separate visa.

When your underage children travel with you, you also need:

• A copy of the birth certificate, which contains the names of the child and parents.
• In the event that one of the parents does not travel and only one parent applies for the visa, or the visa application is only offered without the parents, you must also complete this form and sign it by both parents.

In case the minor child has been adopted from China, you will need:

• A copy of the birth certificate, which contains the names of the child and parents
• A copy of all the adoption papers of the child