This visa qualifies exclusively for:

• family members of Chinese citizens or foreign citizens with a permanent residence permit in China, which plan a family visit or foster care (concerning children) in China. "Family members" refers to spouse, parents, sons, daughters, sons- or daughters-in-law, brothers and sisters, grand children and parents-in-law. (Q1)
• people who are related to Chinese citizens or foreign citizens with a permanent residence permit for China and who wish to travel to China for a short-term family visit (Q2)

Q1 is required for a long-term visit of more than 180 days.
Q2 is required for a short-term visit of less than 180 days.

Required Documents

• Visa Application Form
  
  • before submission of all documents, the visa application form needs to be filled in online. In order to ensure an uncomplicated and trouble-free process visumPOINT will gladly take care of this with the data stated (subject to extra fee). You will then receive the visa application form from us for your signature. Please send us the completed filling aid together with a scan of your current biometric photo and a copy of your passport's biodata page in advance if you want us to fill in the application form for you. 
  • alternatively, you may also fill in the form yourself. For more information please see the embassy webpage. Please make sure to choose the correct consulate (see submission possibilities) and state that your documents will be submitted and picked up in person (please select "By visiting the Visa Center" for item 9.1B in the visa application)! Afterwards please send us the two-fold signed application (sheet 1 and page 8 of the application at 9.1a) together with your documents
  • please pay attention to the document Instructions for filling in visa application, otherwise the application may get rejected!
• Original Passport
  
  • valid for at least 6 more months/ min. 12 months for half year visa/ min. 18 months for one year visa
  • at least with 2 free opposing pages
  • in case of Turkish entry stamps in your passport, please fill in this form and state all you past travels abroad visible in your passport
• Passport Photo
  
  • please make sure you comply with the following requirements, otherwise you may have to have new passport photos taken at the appointment. The waiting time for this can take up to two hours:
    • do not wear glasses
    • the passport photo must be recently taken (no older than 6 months; may be used only once when applying) and biometric
    • neutral facial expression, head must be centered and not tilted, looking straight into the lense
    • no jewellery or ornaments
    • facial characteristics (e.g. eyes, eyebrows, ears) must be visible (long hair should be tied up behind the head)
    • white background and not wearing wearing light-coloured clothing
    • in colour
    • further requierements
  • please do not glue the photo on your application, just enclose it separately
  • the photo you bring to the submission appointment should be identical to the passport photo uploaded during the application process!

  No recently taken photo at the moment? You can take a photo yourself and send it (from the shoulder height to the top of the head, in front of a white background, JPEG format) to visa@visumpoint.com. We will edit it as requested by the consulate. The corresponding service fee can be found in the price calculator, please see 'Additional Services'.
  visumPOINT creates all passport photos with the highest possible precision. However, the Visa Application Center makes a final decision based on case by case whether to accept or reject the documents. If your photo is rejected, another one can be taken on site.
  

• Original and Copy of respective Civil Status Certificate
  
  • e.g.: Certificate of Marriage, Cerificate of Birth etc.
• Consent to processing and transmission of data Frankfurt
  
  • Please use this form
  • must be filled in and personally signed by the applicant with date and place two times on the right-hand side
  • must contain the original signature, i.e. scans/copies are not permitted for submission
• Private Invitation
  
  • See example Privateinladung / Private Invitation
  • additionally:
    • a copy of passport and ID card from inviting person
    • Flight booking confirmation
  • if the inviting person is not Chinese citizen, we also need a copy of the visa (valid for at least 180 days!) and a passport copy
• Informed consent from BOTH parents
  
  • you just need it if a child is under 16 years old and is traveling alone or only with one part of his parents
  • you also need a copy of the birth certificate
• Only if submitting in Berlin:
  
  • Additional form for previous travels:
    
    • Please fill in this form... 
      • if your current passport has been issued after 01.01.2015
      • and/or if your current passport has an entry stamp from Turkey or from an Arab country
    • if you have previously travelled to Macau, Taiwan or Hongkong please just fill in "China" (not "Republic of China" or the like)
• Only if submitting in Frankfurt:
  
  • Copy of passport (data page)
  • Copy of previous visa for China, if those are in a different or older passport. Additionally, a copy of the data page of the concerned passport is necessary.