From Aug 2015, Registration Form of Temporary Residence has new name "Accommodation Registration Form" in Beijing.
This form is called as Beichaka in Tianjin.
Shanghai Police issued Registration Form
Shanghai Hotel issued Registration Form
Within 24 hours of arriving in China, all foreigners must be registered at the local police station near their residence (hotel or apartment).
- If you are staying in a hotel or service apartment, the reception will automatically ask for your passport for registration.
- If you live in an apartment or share an apartment with your friend, you should personally go to the local police station with your passport and rental contract to obtain the white temporary residence sheet free of charge.
The following situations ask foreigners to update their Registration Form of Temporary Residence:
- Move to a new address;
- Change a new passport;
- Change visa category;
- Renew/extend visa;
- Re-enter China (even with the same visa).
With the Beijing Registration Form of Temporary Residence (Shanghai one is not valid in Beijing), you can:
- Renew/extend Chinese visa in Beijing
- Convert Chinese visa into another type in Beijing
- Convert foreign driving license to Chinese one
China Immigration Law 2013
Article 39 Where foreiguers stay in hotels in China, the hotels shall register their accomodation in accordance with the regulations on the public security administration of the hotel industry, and submit foreigners’ accomodation registration information to the public security organs in the places where the hotels are located.
For foreigners who reside or stay in domiciles other than hotels, they or the persons who acomodate them shall, within 24 hours after the foreigners’ arrival, go through the registration formalities with the public security organs in the places of residence.
Article 76 Under any of the following circumstances, a warning shall be given, and a fine of not more than RMB 2,000 yuan may also be imposed:
(1) Foreigners refuse to accept examination of their exit/entry documents by public security organs;
(2) Foreigners refuse to submit their residence permits for examination;
(3) Persons concerned fail to go through the formalities for foreigners’ birth registration or death declaration in accordance with relevant regulations;
(4) Foreigners fail to go through the formalities for altering registration in accordance with the relevant regulations when there is any change in the registered items in their residence permits;
(5) Foreigners in China use others’ exit/entry documents;
or (6) Persons concered fail to go through registration formalities in accordance with the provisions in the second paragraph of Article 39 of this law
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