Possible freedoms soon?
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elusivekOh boy. FINALLY!
This piece of news is pretty exciting: https://www.macaubusiness.com/macau-foreign-residents-again-allowed-to-apply-for-all-mainland-china-visas-categories-starting-from-march-15/?fbclid=IwAR2YFE-gPqZHJqDu-6KNFVqGUYNBw4owih4rZqdBKsMn69rC3IQHe0emO-M
So actually since the lockdown last year, the people of Macau were, erm, stuck in Macau for a while. Well, we weren't really prohibited from traveling, but with all the quarantine requirements, taking a 5-day holiday somewhere is actually a commitment of a +1month effort. Say, I go somewhere (I dunno, Japan or somewhere), need to quarantine for 14 days, then have my holiday for 5 days, then come back, and having to quarantine for another 14 days. Later in the year it was 21 days too.
So it was pretty much "Let's just stay stuck in town". Thus, the Staycation packages from local resorts.
Soon, the Chinese residents (residents who are Chinese in Nationality and thus have a "China return-home card", they were also allowed to freely go to China to the low-risk provinces.
Whereas non-Chinese Macau residents were not allowed to apply for a China visa, and any China visa previously applied was nulled.
So... I've been stuck in town for a while. Looking at friends going on holiday to China. Helping my Boss arrange for stuff in China.
Well well well, just yesterday I was doing some final research on Qingdao, and I found out it's a pretty interesting place. German architecture and all that. And the beer? Though frankly I'm more interested in the old town and also the new hispter area Creative 100. I was just telling my colleagues doing all these research for the Boss is making me really miss traveling...
And this morning my news app shows me THAT piece of news! All inoculated foreign Macau residents, (permanent or temporary), will be allowed to apply for a China visa again! So I just need to get my second shot of the vaccine (end of this month) and technically I will be allowed to be free to travel within China. Woooo.
But as policy also tends to change daily, I'll just wait and see, LOL.
This piece of news is pretty exciting: https://www.macaubusiness.com/macau-foreign-residents-again-allowed-to-apply-for-all-mainland-china-visas-categories-starting-from-march-15/?fbclid=IwAR2YFE-gPqZHJqDu-6KNFVqGUYNBw4owih4rZqdBKsMn69rC3IQHe0emO-M
So actually since the lockdown last year, the people of Macau were, erm, stuck in Macau for a while. Well, we weren't really prohibited from traveling, but with all the quarantine requirements, taking a 5-day holiday somewhere is actually a commitment of a +1month effort. Say, I go somewhere (I dunno, Japan or somewhere), need to quarantine for 14 days, then have my holiday for 5 days, then come back, and having to quarantine for another 14 days. Later in the year it was 21 days too.
So it was pretty much "Let's just stay stuck in town". Thus, the Staycation packages from local resorts.
Soon, the Chinese residents (residents who are Chinese in Nationality and thus have a "China return-home card", they were also allowed to freely go to China to the low-risk provinces.
Whereas non-Chinese Macau residents were not allowed to apply for a China visa, and any China visa previously applied was nulled.
So... I've been stuck in town for a while. Looking at friends going on holiday to China. Helping my Boss arrange for stuff in China.
Well well well, just yesterday I was doing some final research on Qingdao, and I found out it's a pretty interesting place. German architecture and all that. And the beer? Though frankly I'm more interested in the old town and also the new hispter area Creative 100. I was just telling my colleagues doing all these research for the Boss is making me really miss traveling...
And this morning my news app shows me THAT piece of news! All inoculated foreign Macau residents, (permanent or temporary), will be allowed to apply for a China visa again! So I just need to get my second shot of the vaccine (end of this month) and technically I will be allowed to be free to travel within China. Woooo.
But as policy also tends to change daily, I'll just wait and see, LOL.
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Date: 2021-03-12 12:06 (UTC)Here's hoping...
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Date: 2021-03-13 07:28 (UTC)