Chinese Passport Renewal: 2 Consulate Visits or Just 1?
Renewing a Chinese passport from Daegu or Gyeongbuk means a trip to the Busan Consulate-General. The catch is that one trip usually isn't enough. Here's how the number of visits differs between handling it yourself and using an agency.
Handling it yourself means 2 consulate visits
Passport renewal doesn't end with the online pre-registration. Once your registration is approved, you need to visit the consulate in person to submit your documents and pay the fee — and once your new passport is ready, you need to visit again to pick it up. That's a minimum of 2 trips to the consulate: one to submit, one to collect.
On top of that, in-person hours at the consulate are limited to weekdays, 09:00–11:30 and 14:00–16:30 — meaning office workers may need to take time off not once, but twice.
Using an agency cuts it down to 1 office visit + 1 consulate visit
With Gukje International Administrative Law Office, document review, application filing, and online pre-registration are all handled in a single visit to their Daegu office. After that, only the steps that legally require you in person — identity verification and facial recognition — happen at the consulate, in a single visit.
The Daegu office is open on weekends as well as weekdays (a surcharge applies for weekend visits), which makes scheduling much easier for anyone who can't get away during the work week.
Side-by-side comparison
| Handling it yourself | Using an agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Consulate visits | 2 (submit + collect) | 1 (identity/facial verification) |
| Office visits | — | 1 (document review, application filing) |
| Available days | Weekdays only (consulate) | Office: weekdays & weekends; consulate: weekdays only |
Summary
There's no reason to put off renewing (see The Real Cost of an Expired Passport), but once you actually start, visit logistics are usually the biggest obstacle. If you'd like to cut your consulate visits down to one, you can consult Gukje International Administrative Law Office.
💡 If you're in Daegu or Gyeongbuk and need help with a Chinese passport renewal, see the Gukje International Administrative Law Office's Chinese passport renewal service for details.