5 December 2023
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No evidence: China is not suspending passport renewal to force Chinese nationals overseas to return

Dozens of Chinese embassies around the world are not processing passport renewals due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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  1. If the validity period of their passport is less than one year, or if the validity period of the passport is more than one year remaining, but the passport needs to be renewed earlier due to local residence, visa extension, work permit or other justifiable reasons;
  2. If the visa page of the passport is about to run out;
  3. There are significant changes in appearance.
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  • The United Kingdom
  • Canada
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Barbados
  • Bahamas
  • Mexico
  • Costa Rica
  • Grenada
  • Australia
  • Argentina
  • Suriname
  • Ecuador
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Northern Macedonia
  • Denmark
  • The Netherlands
  • Luxemburg
  • Portugal
  • Belgium
  • Romania
  • Italy
  • Czech Republic
  • Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • France
  • Croatia
  • Spain
  • Poland
  • Republic of Congo
  • Uganda
  • Burundi
  • Seychelles
  • Niger
  • United Arab Emirates
  • East Timor
  • Lebanon
  • Philippines
  • Cambodia
  • Maldives
  • Japan
  • Armenia
  • Palestine
  • Mongolia
  • Iraq
  • Bangladesh
  • Brunei
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Fiji
  • Vanuatu
  • New Zealand
  • Guyana
  • Uruguay
  • Brazil (except for Santa Catarina, Sao Paolo, Rio Grande Do Sol, and Parana)
  • Peru
  • Chile (except for areas outside the consulate)
  • Bolivia
  • Columbia
  • Venezuela
  • Albania
  • Slovakia
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Germany (but ONLY in Baden-wuerttemberg, Bavaria, North-Rhine Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland Palatinate, Saarland)
  • Montenegro
  • Sweden (but ONLY in certain districts)
  • Slovenia
  • Estonia
  • Iceland
  • Russia (except for Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, Pskov, Saint Petersburg)
  • Malta
  • Switzerland
  • Ukraine (in some areas only)
  • Austria
  • Moldova, West Africa
  • Serbia
  • Belarus
  • Finland
  • Lithuania
  • Norway
  • Cyprus
  • Greece
  • Algeria
  • Botswana
  • Gabon
  • Lesotho
  • Mali
  • Namibia
  • Senegal
  • Egypt
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Zimbabwe
  • Liberia
  • Mauritius
  • South Africa (except for Kwazulu-natal)
  • Zambia
  • Ethiopia
  • Equatorial Guinea (except for Litoral, Kie-Ntem, Wele-Nzas, Centro-sur)
  • Guinea
  • Cameroon
  • Rwanda
  • Mauritania
  • Sudan
  • Angola
  • Togo
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Madagascar
  • Morocco
  • Nigeria
  • Tanzania
  • Benin
  • Cape Verde
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Malawi
  • Mozambique
  • Sierra Leone
  • Tunisia
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Myanmar
  • Tajik
  • Uzbekistan
  • Israeli
  • Macau
  • Oman
  • Nepal
  • Thailand
  • Singapore
  • India (except for Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal)
  • Hong Kong
  • Pakistan (except for Balochistan and Sindh)
  • Georgia
  • Qatar
  • Malaysia
  • Turkey (except for some areas)
  • Indonesia (except East Java and other areas)
  • Kazakhstan (except for Almaty, Almaty Oblast, Eastern Kazakhstan, Zhambyl, Southern Kazakhstan)
  • Kuwait
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Turkmenistan
  • Jordan
  • Bahrain
  • South Korea (but ONLY in Gwangju, Jeju, Jeollabuk-do, Jeollanamdo)
  • Laos
  • Sri Lanka
  • Iran
  • Vietnam