Fake China Arrival Card websites: how to find the real one
Short answerThe official Online Arrival Card (foreigners) is only on s.nia.gov.cn. Below are the official warnings about look-alike sites and how to tell them apart.
Checked 28 October 2026 by the Arrival Card Finder editorial team against official sources. How we check
Official warnings
National Immigration Administration (NIA), 5 December 2025
Fraudsters overseas have set up fake websites that pose as the official platform in order to collect fees. Filling in the arrival card online is free.
Read the official warningShanghai International Service Portal, 2 December 2025
Warns travellers about fraudulent websites for filling in the arrival card.
Read the official warningBeijing Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, 31 December 2025
Republishes the National Immigration Administration warning about fraudulent arrival card websites.
Read the official warning
Look-alike sites named by official sources
No official source has named a specific look-alike domain for this form yet, so check the address yourself every time.
How to spot the official site
- The address must be exactly s.nia.gov.cn. Type it yourself or use the official link on this page instead of clicking an ad.
- Look closely at the spelling and the ending. Look-alike sites copy the form's name in a slightly different address.
- The official form is free. A request for a service fee or card details means you are on the wrong site.
- The official web form is on s.nia.gov.cn, a Chinese government domain ending in .gov.cn.
- The official app and mini programs are called "NIA 12367" (Chinese name "移民局12367").
- The service is free. Any site that asks you to pay is not official.
- Scan only the official arrival card QR code.
Already paid a fake site?
- Fill in the real form on the official site. CARICOM IMPACS says these sites "charge fees for fake forms that hold no value", and the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service says users of the fake C5 site for Jamaica will not receive a valid form.
- Do not pay anything more. Taiwan's National Immigration Agency says that if a site asks you to pay, do not pay.
- Report it. In the Philippines, the Bureau of Immigration asks people to report fake eTravel sites to the CICC hotline 1326 or at cicc.gov.ph/report.
- Keep in mind what you shared. Official warnings say these sites can collect personal data (Singapore's ICA), be used for data theft (Indonesian Customs), ask for bank details (Chile's SAG) and defraud credit cards (Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security).
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Official sources
Every fact on this page comes from these government pages and official travel advice.