Documents are submitted from Monday - Friday, from 09:00.
Applicants in the following categories are exempt from submitting fingerprints for visas with single and double entry until further notice (as of 10.8.2023). This regulation is initially valid until 31.12.2024.
Applicants who apply for a visa in a different category or for multiple entries are still required to appear in person at the consular provider to give their fingerprints, provided that this has not been done in the past (since 9.12.1019) with the same passport at a Chinese Visa Application Center. Fingerprints remain stored for 5 years for a passport, provided it is valid for this period.
PLEASE NOTE: In order to obtain a multiple-entry visa, the traveler must present at least one copy of a Chinese pre-entry visa that has been used twice, i.e. with which he/she has entered China twice. Only then will a multiple-entry visa valid for 6 months be issued. If a 6-month multiple-entry visa has been used at least three times, a 12-month multiple-entry visa can be issued. Please note that the decision on issuing the visa (frequency of entry, duration of stay,...) is the responsibility of the consulate
.IMPORTANT:
Until December 31, 2025, nationals of Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Belgium, Luxembourg, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Italian Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Spain and Malaysia who hold a valid ordinary passport may enter without a visa if the purpose of the trip is: business, tourism, visiting family or friends and transit. The stay in the People's Republic of China must not exceed 15 days (day of entry and exit are counted)
It is also expressly pointed out that the visa requirement remains for nationals of the above-mentioned countries if their travel purposes go beyond those mentioned above, their stay lasts longer than 15 days and if they (nationals of Malaysia are excluded in this case) have a service passport.
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IMPORTANT:
Since the introduction of the new visa application, all required documents must be uploaded when the visa application is created. These are then checked by the embassy. The documents may only be submitted to the consular provider once a positive decision/mail has been received from the embassy.
Preliminary checks can only be carried out by ÖVKG if the visa application is prepared by ÖVKG. Only in this way is it possible for us to check all documents and information for correctness and completeness. After we have provided you with the visa application for signature, you can send the original documents to ÖVKG or use our pick-up service for a fee. As soon as we have received the OK from the embassy, we will submit the documents for you, collect the completed visa and send the passport to the address of your choice.
If you are filling out the visa application yourself on the Chinese embassy's website, please upload all the required documents to their website yourself. The documents will then be checked by the Chinese embassy. Please do not send the original documents to the ÖVKG until you have received a positive response/notification from the Chinese embassy. Only then may the documents be submitted to the Chinese consular provider. Please send us the confirmation either with the original documents or upload them on your behalf. In this case, the ÖVKG can only check your documents for completeness, but not for correctness. Please note that the check by the embassy can currently take 2-3 days. You should therefore expect longer lead times.
When applying for a multiple-entry visa and for work visas or at the request of the consulate
Meet & Greet service
An ÖVKG employee will accompany you personally when you hand in your fingerprints on site
Payment and display of the consular and consular provider fees by ÖVKG and collection of the completed visa
Follow-up submission of any documents is included
THIS IS HOW YOU CAN BOOK YOUR CHINA VISA WITH US:
Please start the order to the ÖVKG via our website www.oevkg.at (a one-time registration is required for first-time access). If you already have a customer number, please enter it in the "Customer number" field.
Here you can select during the order process whether we may complete the visa application for China for you or whether you do this yourself. If we complete the visa application for you, you only need to enter the traveler's personal data once. With each subsequent order, the data is retrieved automatically and only needs to be adjusted if necessary. You can also have the data to be entered entered by the travelers themselves by releasing the order for processing by the traveler via links. You can find a brief explanation of this HERE!If you do not book the order online on www.oevkg.at, please use the China-Offline "Order form" or for the offline completion aid, the form "China completion aid". You can then fill it out and send it to wien@oevkg.at . Please note that we have to charge an additional fee for offline bookings or offline completion aids.
PLEASE NOTE - we would like to point out to all travelers that ALL fields in the China visa application or in the "China Application Form" are mandatory fields and must be filled in conscientiously and correctly. For example, salary information cannot be skipped, general information such as "EU" or "Asia" is not permitted for the countries visited and all places of work and education from the 9th grade onwards must also be entered.
If you have any questions about your China visa, please call us on +43 1 361 55 20 or send an email to wien@oevkg.at!
Best regards,
Your ÖVKG team
