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[Bethany123]

hey

i got a one way ticket to china through air canada with a "L" visa. It's a 90 day entry visa, and my employer is taking care of getting me a new visa since i'm staying 10 months.

[Mpho]

I entered China via Chiang Mai Thailand in early Aug this year on a one-way ticket to Kunming via Jinghong with no questions asked at the ticket counter, by Chinese authorities or anyone else.
With a Z visa in my passport, no one questioned anything. They knew I was here to teach or work and knew that it would be for 6mos, 1 year or whatever, more than 30-90 days on a tourist visa.

Mpho Kasper

[cornw]

hi

I'm travelling on a tourist visa with a one way ticket to Beijing from the UK. That's with Air China. I had no probs getting my visa, but it did occur to me that they might question why I had a tourist visa and a one way ticket. But they didn't and I got in two hours.

So people are saying there wouldn't be any problems at the Chinese end of things, but there might be a problem leaving from London on a one way ticket?

[clark.w.griswald]

[dajiang]

Yeah, going back outbound it a bit trickier if you go to countries other than your own.

However, if you have a credit card and if you can get the right visa then you can persuade the airlines to give you a ticket.

I flew to Spain once, and I had to do just that, show them I had the funds to take care of myself, credit card was good enough. I have an EU passport, so I could enter.
I have never had anything like that anywhere in Asia though.

You'll be fine.
Dajiang

[GZ]

I was trying to enter China w/ an one-way air ticket from the USA last month, but non of the airlines in the USA(those I called)would sell me one except Cathay Pacific(I did not contact Air Canada). Northwest, continental, and united airline told me that unless I have documents such as job offers or illness that needed that go to see doctors in China and so on, otherwise, I have to buy a round trip ticket. It's one of their regulations. But then the one-way ticket from JFK to HKG via Cathap Pacific would cost me 760 USD for one way in mid-August, and 740 USD for round trip with United Airline if you return before October, I know I won't be back before Oct., I went with UA anyway.

[struelle]

These posts make sense. In my travels, I have never encountered a formal exit customs procedure in a developed Western democracy. Once you pass the check-in with your passport and go through security, you're effectively out of the country. So if there is any regulations in those countries about the need for return international flight, it will be dealt with at check-in. That's basically the exit customs.

As for Chinese authorities, they don't care if you have onward passage or not. But I read somewhere that if you are deported, your consulate foots the bill. So in that case, it makes perfect sense that your home country would be more picky than the Chinese about this one-way ticket situation.

[clark.w.griswald]