1. A valid passport or any other international travel document.

2. A completed VISA/STAY PERMIT/RESIDENCE PERMIT APPLICATION FORM with one front-facing, bareheaded, full-faced 2-inch color photo taken recently against a white background.  

3. A valid accommodation registration record in Beijing.

4. Any foreigner aged 18-70 who applies for a residence permit with a validity period of more than one year shall submit the Certificate of Verification (for Physical Examination Record for Foreigner or Overseas Chinese) issued by an exit-entry health and quarantine authority of China within six months.

Foreigners who have submitted their certificates to Beijing Overseas Talents Center when applying for a work permit are not required to resubmit them. 

5. Certification recognizing the applicant as a high-level foreign talented individual issued by the Organization Department of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, a human resources and social security authority, or a competent authority in charge of foreign experts or of scientific and technological innovation in Beijing.

6. Any foreign national of Chinese descent shall submit a photocopy of his/her once-owned Chinese passport, household registration certificate, resident ID card, etc., which can prove that he/she once had PRC nationality (or proof that his/her parents have/had PRC nationality).