{"id":2832,"date":"2026-02-16T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:07:25","slug":"china-to-grant-visa-free-policy-to-canadian-british-nationals-from-feb-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/2832","title":{"rendered":"China to grant visa-free policy to Canadian, British nationals from Feb. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2833 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2026021606064126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China has decided to, starting from Februrary 17, 2026, extend its visa-free policy to ordinary passport holders from Canada and the UK, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson, ordinary passport holders from the two countries can be exempted from visa to enter China and stay for up to 30 days for business, tourism, family\/friends visit, exchange and transit purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The policy will be effective until December 31, 2026, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>From: CGTN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has decided to, starting from Februrary 17, 2026, extend its visa-free &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-in-china"],"en_md_date":"Feb. 16, 2026","thumbnailurl":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2026021606064126.jpg","fr_down_url":"","author_avatar":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1.jpg","author_name":"Elite RE","author_url":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/me\/1","job_status":"1","post_views":"142","parent_cat":"Live in China","cat_id":2,"cat_names":"Live in China","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}