Exit Inspection

2003-9-9

For exit out of China, foreigners shall have valid passports or other valid certificates. Foreigners must leave China within the validity of their Chinese visas or within the days ofr stay in China. Before exiting, foreigners shall fill in the exit registration cards, with which their passports and papers shall be presented for inspection. Foreigners can leave after all the said certificated are checked and sealed.

Foreigners belonging to any of the following categories shall not be allowed to leave China:
(1) defendants in criminal cases or criminal suspects confirmed by a public security organ, a   people's procuratorate or a people's court;

(2) persons who, as notified by a people's court, shall be denied exit owing to involvement in unresolved civil cases;

(3) persons who have committed other acts in violation of Chinese law who have not been dealt with and against whom the competent authorities consider it necessary to institute prosecution.

Frontier inspection offices shall have the power to stop aliens belonging to any of the following categories from leaving the country and to deal with them according to law:
(1) holders of invalid exit certificates;
(2) holders of exit certificates other than their own;
(3) holders of forged or altered exit certificates.