New Test Required for Travelers Departure from U.S. from 1 April, 2022;Singapore will be Implementing New Points System for Employment Pass (EP) from September, 2023;Thailand Offers “Test and Go” Entry Mode with Quarantine Waived Effective from 1 March, 2022.

During the November 2021 virtual meeting between President Xi and President Biden, China agreed to upgrade travel procedures for American executives and soon after approved the framework for a fast-track channel. AmCham Shanghai, AmCham China and USCBC have since worked with Chinese central and key local governments to create the Program.

With the Upgraded Fast-Track Arrangement between China-US, the Time Needed for Travel Approval will be Shortened in 10 Working Days.

Since 0:00am on May 16, 2021, Shanghai has imposed additional 7 days’ community-based health status observation at traveler’s Shanghai private address if any or another hotel post the 14 days’ compulsory and centralized quarantine at government designated facility on all overseas travelers landing Shanghai. Additional 2 rounds of nucleic acid tests and body temperature check twice daily in the morning and evening respectively during the additional 7 days are required.

With the COVID 19 outbreak in the year of 2020,Chinese government had no choices but to emergently adopt several travel andvisa restrictions as part of pandemic control and precaution policies to protect the country from further pandemic impact.

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