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Q: Add money with a foreign passport

How to add money to my IOS device if my bank account was open with my foreigner passport ID instead of a Chinese resident ID?

iPhone 5s

Posted on Aug 26, 2014 3:02 AM

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  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Aug 26, 2014 3:42 AM in response to tiegui86
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    Aug 26, 2014 3:42 AM in response to tiegui86

    I'm not sure what you mean by 'add money with a foreign passport' or 'foreigner passport ID'. If you are in China then you can only use the China iTunes store (you have to be in a country to use its store), and you can't use a credit card issued by a non-China bank with the China store - you can only use the payment methods that you are listed on the payment details screen on your account

  • by tiegui86,Helpful

    tiegui86 tiegui86 Aug 26, 2014 6:37 AM in response to King_Penguin
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    Aug 26, 2014 6:37 AM in response to King_Penguin

    Hi!

     

    Thanks for your feedback.

     

    My bank account is in a Chinese bank and there's no problem in filling the information.

    HHowever , they ask for the Chinese ID you used to open the bank account.

    SInce I'm not Chinese, my account was open with my passport ID, and unfortunately you can only fill in a 15 digit number (size of Chinese ID).

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Aug 26, 2014 6:43 AM in response to tiegui86
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    Aug 26, 2014 6:43 AM in response to tiegui86

    If you don't meet the criteria for adding money to your account that way then you will need to use a different payment method - do you have a Visa, Amex or MasterCard credit card issued by a Chinese bank ?

  • by tiegui86,

    tiegui86 tiegui86 Aug 26, 2014 7:00 AM in response to King_Penguin
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    Aug 26, 2014 7:00 AM in response to King_Penguin

    No, that's the problem... And I'd like to stay on the China store.

     

    Perhaps i should try to issue one ...

     

    Thanks for your answers

  • by visanusavika,

    visanusavika visanusavika Apr 6, 2015 8:56 AM in response to tiegui86
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    Apr 6, 2015 8:56 AM in response to tiegui86

    i am foreigner living in china got this problem too... please do somethings i need to buy VPN

  • by visanusavika,

    visanusavika visanusavika Apr 6, 2015 9:03 AM in response to tiegui86
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    Apr 6, 2015 9:03 AM in response to tiegui86

    even you have chinese ID but it still doesn't work for some bank specially china bank it's only support with IE (f*ck)Screen Shot 2015-04-06 at 11.58.34 PM.png