General travel abroad, work, etc. must have the documents:
1, passport. Passport is a country's citizens in and out of their own country and to foreign travel or residence, by the country issued by a proof of the citizenship and identity of the legal documents. Passport (Passport) word in English is the meaning of the port pass. That is to say, passport is a kind of passport for citizens to travel through the international ports of various countries. Therefore, some countries in the world usually also issued instead of the passport passport documents.
2, visa. Visa is a document issued by a country's entry and exit authorities (such as immigration or its embassies and consulates abroad) to foreign nationals to indicate that they are authorized to enter the country, which can be done online or by a travel agent. In the course of its development, the visa has different forms and designations. For example, the endorsement type visa, chapter type visa, sticker type visa, but also organic reading visa, individual visa, group visa and so on.
Expanded InformationThe Exit-Entry Administration of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China divides the country into two regions: the region where passports are applied for on demand and the region where passports are applied for according to conditions. The general public applies for passports from local exit-entry administration organizations according to the location of their hukou (household registration). By the end of 2006, 231 cities had become passport-on-demand areas, and only Lhasa, the capital city of a province, is still a "passport-on-demand" area.
The passport on demand that citizens applying for a private passport abroad only with ID card, household registration, you can apply for a passport to the immigration department. Shanghai citizens, for example, you can first go to the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Exit and Entry Administration to get a passport application form or in the Shanghai Municipal Government website directly download the form to print, fill out the form and bring a recent two-inch color photo of myself, hukou and my ID card originally and a copy of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Exit and Entry Administration to submit an application, 10 working days after the can be collected. Initial application for a passport costs 200 yuan, 400 yuan to reissue a passport / this; annotation, extension of 20 yuan / item times, "Passport Law" has been canceled after the promulgation of the extension of the passport, the expiration of the passport must be re-applied for.