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The first Portuguese to visit China was Jorge Álvares in 1513, during the Age of Discovery.He erected a padrão with the arms of Portugal in the port of Tamau, located on the neighboring island of Sancho (or Sanchoão) at the mouth of the Pearl River, near Macau.
Macau SAR passports are only issued by the Identification Services Bureau in Macau. [3] An applicant must fill out an application form, possess a Macau SAR Permanent Resident Identity Card and two recent 1½-inch colour photos along with (if replacing an old passport) their prior Macau SAR Passport.
The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region is the representative office of the central government of the People's Republic of China in Macau. It was established on September 21, 1987, as a branch of Xinhua News Agency. [76] It adopted its present name on January 18, 2000. [77]
The Identification Services Bureau (Chinese: 身份證明局, Portuguese: Direcção dos Serviços de Identificação, DSI) [2] is the agency responsible for civil and criminal identification and travel documents in Macau.
A Portuguese passport (Portuguese: Passaporte português) is an identity document issued to citizens of Portugal for the purpose of international travel. The passport, along with the Citizen Card allows for free rights of movement and residence in any of the states of the European Union , European Economic Area and Switzerland .
Macau General Post Office Building in c.1950. The Macau General Post Office (Chinese: 澳門郵政局大樓; Portuguese: Edificio Sede dos CTT) is a 3-storey building at the intersection of Senado Square and Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro in Sé, Macau, China. The current building was built in 1929. [1] [2] [3]
Prior to 1999, the region was a colony of Portugal and right of abode was tied to Portuguese nationality law. Although Macau, mainland China, and Hong Kong constitute a single country, local residents with Chinese citizenship do not have automatic residence rights in either of the other two jurisdictions, which both control immigration ...
Macau Post and Telecommunications, [a] most commonly known as CTT, [1] is an entity under the Government of Macao responsible for postal services and telecommunications regulation. The acronym CTT comes from the former name of the Portuguese postal administration ( Portuguese : Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones , lit.