China adds Canada and UK to 30-day visa-free entry, lifting total to 50 countries
Spring Festival travel rush to surpass 2 million daily border crossings, Immigration Administration warns
China upgrades digital services for foreigners ahead of holiday peak
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U.S. March 2026 Visa Bulletin advances EB-1 and EB-2 for China, easing backlog pressure
The March 2026 Visa Bulletin, published 20 February, advances China’s EB-1 cutoff to 1 Dec 2023 and EB-2 to 1 Oct 2016. Chinese nationals whose priority dates are now current can file I-485 applications in March, securing interim work/travel cards and shortening U.S. permanent-residence timelines.
Record ‘silver-economy’ travel prompts airlines to adjust capacity during Spring Festival peak
Airlines report a 160 % year-on-year rise in senior travellers during the 2026 Spring Festival, accounting for one in five seats on key domestic routes. The surge is lengthening priority-service queues and prompting carriers to add capacity and special-assistance staff—factors corporate travel planners must now incorporate.
Spring-Festival boom pushes inbound travel to 2 million passengers a day, says National Immigration Administration
NIA predicts 2.05 million daily border crossings during the 15–23 February holiday, buoyed by expanded visa-free schemes and 240-hour transit waivers. Foreign flight bookings are up 400 percent, tax-refund purchases up 95 percent and digital wallets aligned with 40 overseas e-wallets. The figures highlight both opportunity and compliance risk for firms sending staff to China.
Macau logs 551,623 visitor arrivals in first four days of Lunar New Year Golden Week
Macau recorded 551,623 tourist arrivals between 15 and 18 February, with 186,600 on 19 February alone. While the tally is 8.4 percent lower than last year, volumes remain above 100,000 a day, signalling robust cross-border demand and faster recovery in foreign-visitor share. The numbers give mobility planners fresh insight into Greater Bay Area travel flows during Spring-Festival Golden Week.
Foreign tourists seek deeper cultural immersion as ‘China travel’ meets Lantern-Festival climax
A second Xinhua article shows inbound tourists moving beyond Tier-1 cities and standard tours, spurred by visa-free entry and social-media buzz. Charter flights and OTA data reveal demand for cultural immersion across 102 cities. The trend forces mobility programmes to extend support networks to secondary hubs and track new ‘international consumption corridor’ incentives.