What are the entry methods into Macau? How to apply for a Macau pass?

Generally everyone goes to Macau to travel, but there are also some friends who are not traveling. Here are the things you should pay attention to. There are three ways to go to Macau. The editor will give you below. Please provide us with information about these three types of entry so that you can choose from them. If you just want to go to Hong Kong and Macau

Hong Kong and Macau passes and endorsements

(1) Pass

For the first time, you must apply for the Hong Kong and Macau passes in person (cannot be entrusted) Others) go to the entry-exit administration department at the place of residence to apply. But now if you work in some places, such as Guangzhou, "foreigners can apply for a Hong Kong and Macao pass in Guangzhou as long as they buy enough social security for one year and have a one-year temporary residence permit." The passes currently issued are in the form of IC cards, while the old version of the pass was in the form of a book. The two take different passages when crossing the border, but they can see each other, so there is no need to worry about getting separated. If you apply in Guangzhou, you only need to provide your ID card, color photo and photo receipt. (There will be many instant photo studios near any certificate application center in Guangzhou. They cost 20 yuan a set. Tell the people at the photo studio that you want to apply for a Hong Kong and Macao application. pass, they will know how to deal with it). The application fee for the pass is 100 yuan and is valid for 5 years. Reminder: Those who apply for Hong Kong and Macao passes, passports, and Taiwan passes in Guangzhou must first make an appointment online. Without an appointment number, they will not be processed for you. Guangzhou implements networked management, so you can make an appointment nearby. Even if your registered place is Yuexiu District, you can also go to the Haizhu District Certificate Application Center to apply.

(2) Endorsement

Everyone has a pass, but it is just a proof of identity. And if you want to go to Hong Kong and Macao, you also need to obtain an entry-exit permit. This is called a visa (visa refers to going to a third country, which many netizens use incorrectly). The place of application for the endorsement is the same as that of the pass, that is, you cannot be in Zhuhai today and expect to be able to apply for the endorsement and enter Macau tomorrow.

(1) According to time

Once every 3 months (the validity period of the endorsement is 3 months, you can go to Hong Kong at any time within 3 months);

< p>Once a year (the validity period of the endorsement is 1 year, you can go to Hong Kong once at any time within a year);

Note: One entry and one exit is called one time; there is no endorsement twice a year for Macau (If you go to Hong Kong), you can only go there once and come back before applying for the next time. You cannot apply for it multiple times at the same time. So a friend once bought Guangzhou-Macau-Harbin-Macau-Guangzhou, but it was impossible to get through with the pass alone.

(2) Depends on the open cities

G visa: "Individual travel visa", you can enter and exit Hong Kong freely without going out in a group, and you can fly directly to Hong Kong and Macao from the mainland. The areas currently open to G visa include residents of Guangdong Province and 28 cities (the 28 cities are Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Taizhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing, Chengdu, Jinan , Shenyang, Dalian, Nanchang, Changsha, Nanning, Haikou, Guiyang, Kunming, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Changchun, Hefei and Wuhan).

L visa: It is a "group travel visa". You must go out of China with a group. Without a travel agency to lead the group, you cannot fly directly from the mainland to Hong Kong or Macau.

As for whether you have a G visa or an L visa, it depends on where you are registered. It is not something you can choose subjectively, and it has nothing to do with where you live or manage. What should people with L visa do if they don’t want to join a tour group and want to travel independently? Then they can travel independently, because there is actually no difference between G visa and L visa now (in the past, they had to buy a customs clearance list on Taobao before they could travel freely. OK). Anyway, you can now fly directly to Macau from the mainland. Then, whether you are flying directly from Macau to a mainland city or from Macau to Hong Kong, there is no need to classify whether you have an L visa or a G visa.

Question 1: I want to travel to Hong Kong and Macau together. How many times do I need to apply for a visa?

Answer: Hong Kong and Macau are different administrative regions and have their own affairs, so no matter how you go, you need There is no doubt about applying for visas for Macau and Hong Kong. If you travel in the order of Mainland - Hong Kong - Macau - Hong Kong - Mainland, then you only need to apply for Hong Kong once and Macau once. If you ask the China Entry-Exit Administration Department, they will reply that you need 2 trips to Hong Kong and 1 trip to Macau. Why are there differences? Because of "one country, two systems", the two places interpret it according to different terms. China Customs requires you to apply for Hong Kong endorsement twice. This is easy to understand. Of course, re-entering after going out will be considered as a second entry. But for Hong Kong, it is handled according to the "additional itinerary" terms, that is, as long as you are within the 7-day validity period (referring to the period of stay in Hong Kong, calculated from the day after entering Hong Kong, that is, you enter at 8 a.m. on the 1st, and it is also the 2nd). One day, just leave before 23:59 on the 8th). Going to Macau and then returning to Hong Kong does not count as leaving Hong Kong. Since you have not "left" Hong Kong during this period, naturally there is no need for a second time. Signed in Hong Kong. So who should you listen to? Whether you can return to Hong Kong after going to Macau or not is the final decision of Hong Kong Customs. You know this answer.

As for the mainland - Macau - Hong Kong - Macau - Mainland, if you travel in this order, Macau does not have clear terms for "additional itineraries", but some friends say that Macau and Hong Kong need one endorsement each. , he can also walk down (for this issue, you can directly consult the Macau Public Security Police Department, which will give you more peace of mind. The Macau Border Gate consultation hotline is 00853~89800321).

Question 2: If I do not plan to enter Macau, but use the connecting service of Macau Airport to go to Hong Kong or return to the mainland, do I not need to apply for a Macau visa?

Answer: If you don’t know what intermodal service is, please first look at the service content of Macau Airport at /mo/transportation/express-link-service. Air-sea combined transport means that you do not enter Macau after arriving at the airport, but take a boat directly to Hong Kong. In theory, you only need a Hong Kong endorsement, but in fact you only have a ticket to fly to Macau, even if you still have a boat trip from Macau to Hong Kong. ticket, but if you don’t have a Macau endorsement, the Chinese Immigration Inspection will still not let you out (some travel friends called and asked about the reply from the Shanghai Immigration Inspection); sea and air combined transport means that the Hong Kong Terminal goes directly to the Macau Airport, and it also does not go through the Macau Customs. But this only applies to flights of Air Macau and Xiamen Airlines. That is, if you are not returning to the mainland by these two airlines, you still need to apply for a Macau visa and enter Macau first and then go to the airport; land and air combined transport refers to the control from Zhuhai Gongbei area (that is, the middle area between the Chinese border inspection and Macau customs) directly to the airport, but the same problem is that the Chinese border inspection will not release people without a Macau endorsement, and this service is only applicable to overseas flights. Air-land combined transport refers to direct transportation from Macau Airport to Gongbei Control Area without entering Macau. The only function of this is to use a passport to fly from China to Macau and then directly back to China (for example, someone cannot get a pass and only has a passport. And from Shanghai to Zhuhai Air tickets are expensive, so some people will fly from Shanghai to Macau, and then from Macau to Zhuhai), which will not leave a DT record in the passport and Macau customs (please see the passport description below for what DT is). Going to a third country via Macau or flying to Macau from a third country

Passport and air ticket itinerary

Take a trip to Thailand as an example. You can leave China with your passport and air ticket itinerary (do you need a visa from a third country when leaving the country? It depends on the situation. For example, this is not required when going to countries such as Thailand that have visas on arrival, but China does not provide visas on arrival for Chinese passports. country, you need to provide a visa from that country before you can leave the country), and you will get a free 7-day stay in Macau (it was changed from 5 days to 7 days in July 2015). Then fly to Thailand. Finally, I flew back to Macau from Thailand and once again obtained the right to enter Macau with my passport. That is, if you go back and forth to Thailand through Macau, you can theoretically stay in Macau for 14 days. Finally, you can return home by sea (such as taking a boat from the Hong Kong and Macao pier to Shenzhen), land (such as Gongbei Port to Zhuhai or Guangzhou), or air (such as flying from Macau Airport to mainland cities), and return to China with your passport. embrace. In this case, you don’t need to prepare a Hong Kong and Macau pass for the entire journey.

Supplementary information:

Information 1: How to get to Macau Airport from Gongbei Customs. Before departure, you must print out the airline ticket itinerary confirmation letter (if there are multiple people traveling together, you can print out only one copy), and write the Chinese names of everyone in the corresponding position. When going to the entry-exit hall in Zhuhai, you must queue in the passport-only lane and cannot queue with people using passes. (The dedicated passage is in the old border inspection hall, the lane on the far right facing the customs officers. However, under normal circumstances, the staff will ask you to queue outside the glass door first, because this is the only place where the staff will collect your ticket. Make sure you go directly It's useless to queue in the passport-only lane, because they have to pre-enter your ticket information. It's a bit abstract, so it's best to ask a staff member or security guard before queuing, how do you queue if you have a passport? ). When you pass through the customs in Macau, there are no separate lanes for passports and passes, so you can queue in the same queue. After passing customs, you can take a taxi if you are in a hurry. Under normal circumstances, the journey takes less than 20 minutes and the taxi fare is about 90 MOP. If you are not in a hurry, take AP1 to the bus terminal on the negative floor of the square. The fare is 4.2 MOP and the journey takes about 30-45 minutes. If you still have time to eat, you can take a bus to the Venetian in the square. After eating at the Venetian or Guanye Street, return to the main entrance of the Venetian and transfer to the airport (the Venetian will wait for the bus to the airport) time, usually no more than 15 minutes), this method is free of charge. Of course, if you have more time, you can go to other places before going to the airport. For example, if you want to go to Ruins of St. Paul's, you can find direct buses to the airport at nearby Emperor and Wynn after your visit.

Information 2: Instructions on DT tags. This mark refers to someone who entered Macau using a passport but was unable to go to a third country from Macau due to illness or various subjective reasons and returned directly to China or Hong Kong. When leaving Macau, Macau Customs will stamp the DT mark on the passport. The consequences of this mark are: first, entering Macau's blacklist, and you may be refused entry when you go to Macau or Hong Kong again; second, with such a mark, when you use this passport to apply for a visa from other countries, your chances of being rejected are greatly increased. The probability of visa rejection (Take Thailand visa as an example: You can check the visa service fee on a certain website. The normal passport service fee is 10 yuan. Once there is this mark, the service fee will be at least 100 yuan or more). Therefore, some merchants on a certain website provide passport services to Macau, so please choose carefully. So if you don’t plan to go to a third country via Macau, I suggest you just apply for a Hong Kong and Macau pass. Going to Taiwan via Macau or flying from Taiwan to Macau

The Chase Pass and valid Taiwan endorsement, Taiwan entry permit, and air ticket

The specific terms are consistent with entering and leaving Macau with a passport. Repeated.

But the transit procedures are the same as those for holding a Hong Kong and Macau pass. That is, everyone has to queue for the pass, because we are not "going abroad" when we go to Taiwan. Don't wait in line with the people who hold the passport. Haha~ There are also mixed queues when going to Macau. .