中国领‪事‬ 4+

I’m surprised I can only choose between WeChat pay or offline payment. For anyone who doesn’t have a mainland telephone number, they obviously can’t use WeChat pay. Please support bank checking account payment option.

Also, the photo upload feature doesn’t make sense when I already have all my documents scanned as PDFs. Converting PDF back to JPG is very difficult and your uploaded doesn’t allow multiple pages per upload slot. The app makes document exchange more difficult than simple email communication. If a technology already works, why make everyone learn something new that doesn’t work as well?

Overall, I give it a 4/5 star for my experience. But the process was definitely a bit of a roller coaster. Couple things to keep in mind for Chinese passport renewal, the app requires digital copy. So make sure to check with your local CVS or walgreen. I’m located in Chicago and it’s a hit or miss here depending on the store. Also when the app ask for access to your album make sure you choose full access. I made the mistake by choose ‘add only’ and almost screwed up everything. Last but not least, they will need some basic supporting documents, but one of it was interesting. They asked for local, physical picture of new paper with the date. I’m in my twenties and of course I don’t have a new paper subscription. So I found my from Mariano’s haha. Was so happy I found it that the store manager thought I won a lottery lol.
Also, please make sure to put an return envelope inside the mail with your old passport!! Besides the hiccups it went really smooth. Hope it’s helpful for my people out there that needs to renew their passport:)

Just received my new passport today and have to say the whole process was surprisingly smooth. There were a few hiccups with the app at set-up with facial scan and midway when it wouldn’t open my submitted passport renewal form. But these problems were all resolved by reinstalling the app. The whole process took a little under a month and I never had to go in person to the embassy, even when parts of my submission had to be edited/resubmitted, I was informed and made those edits through the app. Overall very impressed by the smooth process!