Proceedings of administrative approval

To go to Taiwan for private business

Organ handling the application

Entry and Exit Administration of Shanghai; Offices on entry and exit administration at all branches of public security bureau at districts and counties in Shanghai. For detail, please refer to the List on Address of Offices on entry and exit administration (to click and browse the page).

Conditions for administrative approval

Shanghai residents and Chinese citizens having settled down in foreign countries going to Taiwan for settlement (for settlement or going back to Taiwan), for residence (for residence, returning back or depending on relatives), visiting family (visiting family, visiting patient friends or for reunion), or for other private affairs (such as visiting friends, inheriting and dealing with property, handling matters concerning wedding or funeral, and going for lawsuit, etc.). 

Application materials

I.                     To complete and submit the Form on Examination and Approval on Mainland Residents Applying to go to and fro Taiwan Region pasted with a 2’’ barehead front-view colorful picture which is taken recently (48X33mm, with white color as the background), attached with two other pictures of the same dimension; 

II.                   To submit for verification the originals of valid ID card, household register certificate or other documents on the household register, attached with their copies (applicants for the matter of settling in Taiwan should submit document proving their residence registration in mainland China being cancelled);

Chinese citizens settling in foreign countries should submit their valid passports, documents on their settling in the foreign country and their residence certificate in Shanghai, attached with their copies;
III. Applicants with the following (special identities) should also submit a written opinion from their work units:
(I) Officials in the municipal department who are incumbent or retired (with honor);

(II) Officers on department level in all organs including people’s organizations of worker, youth and women, as well as those from democratic parties;

(III) Those working on the key posts at enterprises and public institutions related to the state politics, economy, security and commercial secrete, and finance, taxation, scientific research and education, etc;

(IV) Those working at Shanghai-based units under direct control of the central government, or those at units of other provinces, municipalities or autonomous regions stationed in Shanghai.
IV. To submit valid approval certificate on their getting into Taiwan;

V. Those having a Passport to go to and fro Taiwan should submit their Passport to go to and from Taiwan;

VI. To submit other evidentiary materials that the department on entry and exit administration believes to be essential in handling the application.

Procedures and time limit for handling the application

The office on entry and exit administration of the public security branch of the local precinct where applicants are in accept the application and Entry and Exit Administration of Shanghai is to do examination and approval work on the application as well as make the certificate. The application is to be handled and wound up within 10 working days.

Charging standard and its basis

For a Passport on Mainland Residents going to and fro Taiwan, it is 30RMB per passport; it is 20RMB for an endorsement, note or time extension; it is 100RMB for a multiple-journey endorsement.

The State Price Bureau and Ministry of Finance (1993) J.F.Z. No.164. 

Foundation for handling the application

Administration Method on Chinese Citizens Going to and fro Taiwan Region

Remarks

If it is the application for the first time, the applicant must go and file in the application in person. If the applicant is under 16 years or over 70 years of age, or if it is the second application, relatives of the applicant can be entrusted to go for the application, (but the factor must present his ID card).