I want to travel abroad. What should I do without a passport?

What about international travel procedures?

● How to apply for passports and visas when traveling abroad?

Traveling abroad has various purposes, such as studying abroad, studying abroad and traveling. No matter what purpose you travel, you must get a passport. Passport is the identity document for citizens to leave, enter and go abroad.

Passports of people going abroad on business shall be handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the organs authorized by the Ministry (foreign affairs offices of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions). Passports of people going abroad on private business shall be handled by the organs authorized by the Ministry of Public Security (local public security bureau).

After the passport is completed, you can use it to apply for a visa and buy international air tickets, cars and boat tickets. A visa is a permit granted by an official institution of a country to its own and foreign citizens to enter or leave the country or to stay or live in the country. Visa types include: entry and exit visas, transit visas, tourist visas, residence visas, etc.

As an individual, the most convenient way to travel abroad is to go abroad with a group, and the travel society will apply for a passport to go abroad. Many large domestic travel agencies can handle visas for people who go abroad for personal reasons. For example, China Travel Agency Corporation has visa offices all over the world to handle visas for people who go abroad for personal reasons. They are familiar with visa procedures. Entrust them to apply for visas, and pay a little handling fee can save a lot of trouble. The time required to apply for a visa varies from country to country, and it usually takes more than 1 week.

● What are the procedures for entry and exit?

Any country implements strict inspection procedures for inbound and outbound passengers. The departments that handle these procedures are generally located in the entry and exit places of passengers, such as airports, stations and docks.

Entry and exit procedures include:

(1) border inspection. In many countries, immigration offices are responsible for filling in entry and exit registration cards (sometimes on airplanes), submitting passports and checking visas. Some countries exempt transit visas and allow passengers to travel to the city from the airport. They just left their passports at the border, got the transit cards and changed them when they came back. ② Customs inspection. Generally, just ask if there are any items to declare, or fill in the declaration form for passengers carrying goods into and out of the country. When necessary, the customs has the right to unpack and inspect the articles it carries. Diplomatic passport holders are generally exempt from inspection. Countries have different regulations on the entry and exit of goods, and general goods such as cigarettes and alcohol are released according to the quota. Cultural relics, weapons, local currency, drugs, animals and plants, etc. They are all contraband, and they are not allowed to enter or leave the country without special permission. ③ Safety inspection. In recent years, due to frequent hijackings, all countries have to carry out certain security checks on passengers boarding the plane. It is mainly forbidden to carry weapons, murder weapons and explosives. Inspection methods include body search, passing through the security door, inspection with magnetic detector, infrared perspective, etc. ④ Quarantine. Submit the yellow book, that is, the vaccination certificate. Some countries are sometimes exempt from inspection. In order to prevent the epidemic of some infectious diseases in the world, all countries have regulations that you need to get some vaccines when you travel to your own country, such as vaccinia, cholera and yellow fever. The validity period of these vaccines is: vaccinia is valid for 3 years from the date of re-inoculation 8 days after the first vaccination; Effective prevention of cholera within 6 months from 6 days after vaccination; Prevention of yellow fever is effective from 10 day after inoculation 10 year.

According to the distribution of the epidemic situation, different regions and different periods have different requirements for vaccination, so it is necessary to understand clearly before going through the vaccination procedures. Health and epidemic prevention stations in all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions are responsible for vaccination and issuing yellow books.