China resumes visa procedures – WORLD

China resumes visa processingChina said in a statement that visa procedures, suspended at the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, will be resumed.The Department of Consular Affairs of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that embassies, consulates and visa offices at customs will resume visa procedures that were suspended at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. , it was noted that visas issued before March 28, 2020, when visa procedures were suspended, will also remain valid. In addition, it was reported that visa-free entry for group trips to Hainan Island in the south of the country and from Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions to Guangdong Province will be granted. China closed its borders to the outside world in March 2020. after the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic and suspended all visas. On January 8, 2023, ceased treatment for Covid-19 as a “Category A epidemic”, lifted the measures and restrictions imposed under the Border Sanitary and Quarantine Law, and reopened its borders.