11 August 2016

China Requires Your Old Passport

Effective immediately, the Embassy of the People's Republic of China requires that all persons seeking a Chinese visa of any type provide their previous (old / cancelled) passport, in addition to their current valid signed passport.

1)
The new rules state that if your current valid signed passport was issued on or later than 1 January 2014, you must provide the original of your previous passport.

or,

2)
If you no longer possess the old passport, you must provide a typed and signed original letter explaining why you do not have the previous old passport,

and,

3)
You must also provide a typed and signed original letter with a full and complete list of all countries visited in the last two (2) years in the following format:
“FRANCE - Paris, June 2015, 10 days”
"KENYA - Nairobi, January 2016, 5 days"

All three requirements are mandatory. Any application without the second passport, or the letters, will be automatically rejected by the Chinese visa officers.

Click here for China visa forms.