This has been touched on, a tad, but I am hoping for a more direct response.
My wife and I have a connecting flight in Shanghai from Moscow, will I be able to fly from Shanghai to Taipei using my ARC card or will the airline make me buy a ticket to the states? My wife is TWnese, I am assuming connecting in Shanghai to Taipei will not be an issue for her. The airline from Shangai to Taipei is China Eastern if that changes anything.
Thanks for any help you can give!
J
[quote=“bohlinghaus”]This has been touched on, a tad, but I am hoping for a more direct response.
My wife and I have a connecting flight in Shanghai from Moscow, will I be able to fly from Shanghai to Taipei using my ARC card or will the airline make me buy a ticket to the states? My wife is TWnese, I am assuming connecting in Shanghai to Taipei will not be an issue for her. The airline from Shangai to Taipei is China Eastern if that changes anything.
Thanks for any help you can give!
J[/quote]
Ask the frickin airline, dude.
[quote=“bohlinghaus”]This has been touched on, a tad, but I am hoping for a more direct response.
My wife and I have a connecting flight in Shanghai from Moscow, will I be able to fly from Shanghai to Taipei using my ARC card or will the airline make me buy a ticket to the states?[/quote]
I don’t understand this. Is Taiwan your final destination?
If it is and you have an ARC from Taiwan then of course you can fly here.
[quote=“bohlinghaus”]This has been touched on, a tad, but I am hoping for a more direct response.
My wife and I have a connecting flight in Shanghai from Moscow, will I be able to fly from Shanghai to Taipei using my ARC card or will the airline make me buy a ticket to the states? [/quote]
Citizens of the United States (and some other countries, i.e. Canada, Germany, UK, …) can transit visa-free for 72 hours in Shanghai and a few other Mainland cities. You may also leave the airport and explore Shanghai. As long as you have an outbound flight to a third destination within 72 hours you qualify. Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are considered “third destinations” as they are outside the Mainland.
Examples that work:
TPE - PVG - NRT -TPE
TPE - NRT - PVG - TPE
TPE - PVG - NRT
Example that does not work:
TPE - PVG - TPE
Your wife is not considered a foreigner by the Mainland China authorities. That being said, she will need further documents as the Mainland government will not let her transit with a ROC passport. Your wife will either need to apply for a “Mainland Travel Permit for Taiwan Residents” or 臺胞證 / tai2bao1zheng4 in Chinese or a “PRC Travel Document” (華人民共和國旅行證 / lü3xing2zheng4). It does not matter if she only wants to transit or not. The Taibaozheng can be easily applied for at travel agencies in Taiwan for around 500-700 NT$ and is valid for two years. The Lüxingzheng can only be applied at the PRC embassy/consulate in the US if your wife has a green card.
These are not visa but identity / travel documents and can be issued relatively quickly and without worry.
Irrelevant.
Your wife is not considered a foreigner by the Mainland China authorities. That being said, she will need further documents as the Mainland government will not let her transit with a ROC passport. Your wife will either need to apply for a “Mainland Travel Permit for Taiwan Residents” or 臺胞證 / tai2bao1zheng4 in Chinese or a “PRC Travel Document” (華人民共和國旅行證 / lü3xing2zheng4). It does not matter if she only wants to transit or not. The Taibaozheng can be easily applied for at travel agencies in Taiwan for around 500-700 NT$ and is valid for two years. The Lüxingzheng can only be applied at the PRC embassy/consulate in the US if your wife has a green card.
These are not visa but identity / travel documents and can be issued relatively quickly and without worry.[/quote]
I discovered this recently while my wife (PRC citizen leaving in TW) and I were looking for plane tickets to Europe this summer. My wife has a Tongxingzheng. With this document, she needs to apply in person for an exit to Taiwan in the PSB office where her Hukou is registered in order to take a direct Mainland to Taiwan flight (and as you said and Airchina confirmed, it is also the case for transit flights). As this thing is 6 month valid and you can’t apply from Taiwan, that leaves us no choice as avoiding flying Chinese airlines (which would not be a bad thing but they are the least expensive to Europe) or stay in China to apply an exit… Pretty annoying.
Irrelevant.[/quote]
Well. That’s why I reply to this post: I did the transit in Beijing once from Paris to Taiwan. I had to pass immigration after the transit counter and they stamped my passport with a “transit” stamp. On the opposite, when you transit with China Eastern through Shanghai, they don’t stamp on your passport at all… I was wondering if the above could work with China Eastern but would definitely not risk it.
Mainland wife is a different issue.
While Mainlanders, HK, MO and TWN are all Chinese citizens, they require different sets of documents and entry/exit permits,