The required documents for applying Tourist/Family Visit Visa (L Visa)

1. The Registered Permanent Residence Book or Driving License and their copies.

2. One properly completed Visa Application Form with one recent passport photo attached on it. Applicants should write clearly their address and telephone on the Visa Application Form. If applicants want to stay in China for more than 30 days, please write the name, address and telephone of their relatives or friends in China.

3. The passport with at least 4-month validity and one blank visa page.

Special required documents for applying Tourist/Family Visit Visa (L Visa)

1. If applicants are high-ranking officers in South Korea including members of parliament, senior officer, vice senior officer, mayor and vice mayor in DO (Province) or Special City, please tell the consular officers and provide the schedule in China and the name & telephone of host organization in China.

2. If applicants are religious people, they must offer a letter of guarantee with their signed name and seal. They can't organize religious activities in China.

3. If applicants are journalists or personnel of media institutions, please tell the consular officers and guarantee that they won't make interviews in China.

Note: Tourist/Family Visit Visa (L Visa) is also applicable for people who enter China for investigation or exchange but they can't offer the official invitation letter.

The Tips for applying Chinese Visa

1. The embassy doesn't accept applications by post/mail. If you can't go to the consular office in person, you can entrust different organs to submit applications according to the visa types.

2. If you apply for Tourist/Family Visit Visa (L Visa), you can entrust the Travel Agencies that are authorized by the Chinese Embassy in Korea to deal with it. The exact information of the Travel Agencies is on the website: http://gwangju.kr.china-embassy.org/chn/lsfw/visa/t345226.htm (Chinese Version).

3. If you apply for other types of visa, you can entrust your company, organ or the Travel Agencies that are authorized by the Chinese Embassy in Korea to deal with it.

4. If a company or travel agency applies for visas, please submit the Visa Application Form with the company seal in the lower right-hand corner.

5. Please show your Pick-up Receipt when you pick up your visa. If it is lost, the applicant should go to the Consular Office in person with the Lost Certificate of Police Station, Identity Card and its copy.

6. If the consular officer calls you and asks you to hand in other documents, please hand in them and then pick up your visa.

7. After picking up your visa, please check it carefully.

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