I want to take a one-day tour from Xiamen to Kinmen. Do I need a passport and visa?

No, you can apply for a temporary pass for mainland compatriots to travel to and from Taiwan Province Province, and apply for an entry and exit permit for Kinmen overseas after arriving in Kinmen.

Taiwan Province entry permit, each team has only one visa number, and must go through the entry and exit procedures with the group. You can't go through the entry and exit formalities alone or with other travel teams, otherwise you will be refused entry and exit.

Tourism-related endorsements mainly include:

1, l endorsement: travel (team), suitable for all regions, with the travel agency's reservation form, at the specified time;

2, G endorsement: individual tour (free travel), go to the entry-exit management office by yourself.

Visa is the annotation and seal of the sovereign organ of a country on the passport or other travel documents held by its own or foreign citizens to show that they are allowed to enter or leave its own territory or pass through it. It can also be said that it is an endorsement certificate issued to them.

Generally speaking, a visa is a document issued by a country's entry-exit administration department (such as immigration bureau or its embassy or consulate abroad) to express approval to foreign citizens.

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Visa function:

It is a measure taken by a sovereign country to safeguard its sovereignty, dignity, security and interests. Visa is an important means for a sovereign country to implement entry and exit management. Citizens of a country who want to travel, settle down, do business and study in other countries must have valid passports or travel documents, and another condition is to obtain visas to other countries.

Under normal circumstances, a country issues visas to foreigners on the principle of equality and reciprocity between foreign countries and their nationals, and provides the same preferential treatment and convenience for the nationals of the two countries to interact with each other. However, there are also visa-free countries, such as 18 visa-free countries with China passports and 130 visa-free countries with American passports.

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