The ministry indicates that the principals of middle and elementary schools and the faculty, staff, guards, technicians, and maintenance personnel of schools at all levels as well as military training instructors without military affiliation may apply to visit relatives on the mainland. In principle, visits should be made during summer or winter vacation, but trips to attend funerals or visit the ailing may also be applied for.
教育部表示，中等以下學校校長、各級學校教師、職員、駐衛警察、技工、工友、各級學校無軍籍軍訓教官等申請赴大陸地區探親，以寒暑假為原則，但探病、奔喪得隨時辦理。