{"id":545932,"date":"2026-04-23T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545932\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:58:08","slug":"uk-china-visa-scheme-to-apply-to-manx-passports-after-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545932\/","title":{"rendered":"UK China visa scheme to apply to Manx passports after deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talks between the Manx government and FCDO were sparked by a number of cases which highlighted the problems people were facing as they tried to enter China on a Manx passport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c78r0r7j7gxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niall Quiggin also recently told the BBC of challenges entering China as he was traveling to Yangzhou for work<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was moved to a holding room for two hours, before eventually being granted a temporary emergency entry permit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Treasury Minister Chris Thomas said he was &#8220;grateful to those who brought the issues to our attention&#8221; and the government had worked closely with the UK&#8217;s FCDO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I welcome the confirmation that holders of Isle of Man passports are eligible for visa\u2011free travel to China under the new scheme,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8221; I hope that this clarification will provide greater certainty for people travelling for business, family or leisure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talks between the Manx government and FCDO were sparked by a number of cases which highlighted the problems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-545932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}