Foreigners, who need to enter China urgently for humanitarian reasons, who are invited to enter China for urgent business affairs or urgent engineering repair or who enter China as required for other urgencies and hold certifications on the consent of the relevant competent departments to application for visa at ports of entry, may, at the ports of entry approved by the State Council to issue port visas, apply for a port visa to the port visa offices as authorized by the Ministry of Public Security.
When applying for consular authentication of notarial certificates for civil purposes, the original notarial certificate, one valid copy of personal passport (or the original note issued to a foreign citizen by the embassy of his/her country in China), and other papers required by the concerned embassy in China must be submitted.
