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anonymous
Q: overstayed voluntary leaving
If one overstay voluntary leaving china with valid passport and plane ticket,are they still going to question him in the airport?or just go home without any fines/detain.Thanks
11 years 11 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
They will fine you up to 500 RMB per day that you have overstayed your visa. If you don't pay, they can detain you until you cough up some cash.
mitchfernz8:
Is there any other agreement rather that fine or detain you..
JungleLife:
Not that I have heard, if you have over-stayed your visa you will get fined for sure. You can contact the local PSB office to see if they can give you another tourist visa, but they will more than likely fine you and then tell you to leave the country immediately.
JungleLife:
Also, if you overstay a visa you will have a very hard time getting another visa in the future. Not a good idea to overstay a visa.
BHGAL:
if they stop you while trying to leave............. then you get to stay for another couple days/ a week, while you update your visa and pay the fine.
I don't think there is any way out of it. They won't let you leave until they get their money.
your best option is to sneak out. mitch, you will be fined and possibly detained. you broke the law, they will not let you leave scotch free.
how many days did you over stay? it does matter.
mitchfernz8:
1 year already. What if I'm going to our desired embassy/consul here in china,surrender with my valid pasport,are they going to offer any assistance regarding this? I don't have enough money to pay the fines,only for my plane ticket. This is my big mistake.
crimochina:
do you think the navy will enter chinese territorial waters so the embassy can helicopter you out? your only legal exit will take you through immigration agents. go to a coastal city and hire a boat out. because you are looking a jail time and you deserve it.
mitchfernz8:
Aww. Sounds Rude. But I deseved it. Yes,technically they will not do that. But,I came here to express my problem and if there is someone who give me advice or solution to this matter I Owe it much,.Well as of now,I'm planning to seek our consul first regarding this matter.I don't know what assistance they will give but its better to try.Thank You to all of you.
Along the lines of what crimo said, you could also try to take a land route out. Take a back road to Vietnam or something. Worth a shot if you're close to the border. With the length of time you've overstayed, the last thing you want to do is alert the authorities. I hope you're using a proxy to post here.
Going to your Embassy will be a waste of time, they can not do a thing for you, just wish you good luck. With a one year overstay in your visa, in their eyes you are a criminal, and have shown no respect for their laws and regulations, which is really bad. If you try to leave thu an airport or border station, you will be detained by the immigration officer under the "overstay" provisions, and most probably send to jail until you pay the maximum fine, which I do think it was either 5,000 or 10,000 Rmb, I do not remember exactly the amount now. Once the fine is paid, you will be deported, and for at least 5 to 10 years will not be able to get another visa to enter China. The only other way around this is to bypass Chinese immigration at a border station, which is also risky as hell, but doable if you do become familiar with the lay out first and do your homework. But I refuse to say more, I do not patronize at all breaking any laws anywhere.
The best thing for you to do is to face the music and pay the fine, get the money somehow from family or friends. If there is no way possible of getting the money, then I have no idea why you let yourself get to this point.
You could get a fake visa via the black market that shows a one year visa starting from the time when your last visa expired. The visa will be void and have never been processed, so you will still be in shit and in China on a fake visa, but at least you could act dumb, and say that you paid for what you thought to be a true valid one year visa. Will it help? maybe, but you have to expect the worst.
You could try crossing into North Korea.
There was a guy called Ryan123 about a year or so ago, who had the same problem. Complained that he was holed up in his apt. and not able to go out. I guess he finally took my advice and went to North Korea. Never heard from the kid again.
Burma, Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan may be options too, if you are near them Be warned however, that if you travel by train and by plane they do check your visa. so do hotels. How did they not catch you before?
HappyExPat:
It did seem to me like Ryan part 2 when I first read it, too similar.......
its really no big deal.... borrow a friends passport... photo scan the VISA... make it into a label... paste it into your passport.... Just don't leave at the same tiime ... make sure your friend is not leaving any time soon
