What documents do I need to apply for when going abroad?

The documents required for going abroad are as follows:

1. passport: a legal document issued by a country to prove the nationality and identity of its citizens when they enter or leave its territory and travel or stay abroad. The word passport means port pass in English. In other words, a passport is a passport for citizens to pass through international ports in various countries. Therefore, some countries in the world usually issue passes instead of passports.

2. Visa: refers to the procedure that the sovereign organs of a country endorse and seal passports or other travel documents held by domestic or foreign citizens to show that they are allowed to enter, leave or transit. 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 (such as immigration bureau or its embassy or consulate abroad) to approve the entry of foreign citizens. Visas are generally endorsed on passports, and some are endorsed on other travel documents instead of passports. Generally speaking, a visa must be used at the same time as a passport to be valid.

3. Travel documents: Citizens who have gone abroad for a short period of time cannot use their passports abroad because of their loss, theft or damage, and should apply for a travel permit of the People's Republic of China from China's embassies and consulates abroad or other overseas institutions entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Travel documents International passengers should go through all formalities such as passports, visas and travel documents before going through the flight and exit formalities. Passengers' passports, visas and travel documents should be carried with them and not transported in their luggage. The carrier shall not be responsible for the losses and expenses caused by the incomplete travel documents of passengers. However, the passenger shall be responsible for all losses and expenses incurred by the carrier, including (but not limited to) fines.

Legal basis:

Passport Law of the People's Republic of China

Twenty-second passport issuing agencies can charge fees for passport making and filling. The collected fees and filling fees shall be turned over to the state treasury. The standard of passport fee and filling fee shall be stipulated and published by the competent price department of the State Council in conjunction with the finance department of the State Council.

Twenty-third citizens who have gone abroad for a short period of time cannot use their passports abroad because their passports are lost, stolen or damaged, they should apply for a travel permit of the People's Republic of China to the China embassy or consulate abroad or other overseas institutions entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Twenty-fourth citizens engaged in border trade, border tourism services or participating in border tourism may apply to the entry-exit management agencies of public security organs of local people's governments at or above the county level entrusted by the Ministry of Public Security for People's Republic of China (PRC) entry-exit permits.

Article 25 Citizens who enter or leave the country as seafarers and work on ships of foreign nationality shall apply to the maritime administrative agency entrusted by the Ministry of Communications for a seaman's certificate of the People's Republic of China.