{"id":123810,"date":"2016-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/agreement-to-facilitate-visas-for-chinese-tourists-to-be-signed-soon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:21:35","slug":"agreement-to-facilitate-visas-for-chinese-tourists-to-be-signed-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/agreement-to-facilitate-visas-for-chinese-tourists-to-be-signed-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement to Facilitate Visas for Chinese Tourists to be Signed Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Romania will try to attract as many Chinese tourists as possible and will facilitate the visa issuance process in this regard, based on a protocol to be signed soon, stated the president of the National Authority for Tourism (ANT), Anca Pavel Nedea.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She specified that since November 2015, together with the National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT), they requested the ministry to unblock the visa situation and facilitate them. With the new Government, discussions took place, a request was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) and the General Inspectorate for Immigration (IGI), and after a working meeting, it was decided to sign a protocol between IGI, MAE, ANT, and travel agency associations to unblock visas with China.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thus, a Chinese tourist could receive a visa for Romania in a maximum of 7 days, a term that will not, however, be valid for Romanian tourists going to China. The ANT President states that the Chinese Embassy in Bucharest has granted permission for Romanians traveling to China to no longer be required to come and submit their visa documents personally; instead, if they travel through a tour operator, that operator will bring all the passports and they will be able to obtain the visa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall-street.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Wall-Street<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How long will it take for Chinese tourists to get a Romanian visa?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the new protocol, Chinese tourists could receive a visa for Romania within a maximum of 7 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which institutions are involved in this visa facilitation agreement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The agreement involves the National Authority for Tourism (ANT), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), the General Inspectorate for Immigration (IGI), and travel agency associations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can Romanian tourists benefit from the same 7-day visa processing in China?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, the 7-day processing time is specifically for Chinese tourists coming to Romania, though Romanians can now apply for Chinese visas through tour operators without personal submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania will try to attract as many Chinese tourists as possible and will facilitate the visa issuance process in this regard, based on a protocol to be signed soon, stated the president of the National Authority for Tourism (ANT), Anca Pavel Nedea. She specified that since November 2015, together with the National Association of Travel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2859],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stirea-editiei-en"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/topstory.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123810"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}