Another Function for "Government Online-Offline Shanghai": Single Window for Foreigners' Work Permit and Residence Permit Online Simultaneous Appointment and Offline Single Window Service

What's New: The service "Single Window for Foreigners' Work Permit and Residence Permit" is available online from NOW on!

Co-released by the Exit-Entry Administration of Shanghai Public Security Bureau and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Shanghai Municipal Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs), the Single Window for Foreigners' Work Permit and Residence Permit is available online for institutional and individual applicants to complete one thing more efficiently based on its offline presence opened to the public in 2019. Let's have a look!

Foreign high-end talents (Category A) applying for work permit and residence permit in Shanghai for the first time may fill in relevant information and electronically upload required documents on the "Government Online-Offline Shanghai" for simultaneous a first examination by the administrators. After the first examination is passed, the time and outlet to submit a formal application of both affairs offline can be chosen. Upon approval, the Foreigner's Work Permit and the Foreigner's Residence Permit will be issued simultaneously. After the paper documents are accepted offline at the windows, the examination and approval period can be shortened to seven working days.

Access: 

1. "Government Online-Offline Shanghai" Homepage→Feature Column → One Thing Completed Efficiently → Guide for Newcomers to Shanghai from outside the Chinese Mainland → Foreigners → Exit-entry and Stay-residence (Including Working in Shanghai) → Single Window for Foreigners' Work Permit and Residence Permit  (with a webpage guide map provided by the big data center)

2. "Switch to Department/District/Management Committee" in the upper right of "Government Online-Offline Shanghai" Homepage →Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau→Exit-entry Feature Column→Services for Foreigners→Single Window for Foreigners' Work Permit and Residence Permit  (with a webpage guide map provided by the big data center)

3. "Switch to Department/District/Management Committee in the upper right of "Government Online-Offline Shanghai" Homepage→Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality→Single Window for Foreigners' Work Permit and Residence Permit 

This function may also be searched by inputting the keyword of "single window" in the search bar on all levels of pages.