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Have any of you seen this? https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3fny5f9qR557REjIvwVdgg
One of the categories of people eligible for a “green Card” are foreigners who have been married to a Chinese national and living in China for at least the 5 past continuous years.
I haven’t been able to fact check it yet, so it could be total BS.
5 years 18 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
It looks real .... 'cause see my link from DDG search on the same:
http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/feature_2/Sino_ltaly_culture_year/Info/Beijin...
It's true. That's the rule I used to apply for a "green card" -- of course I applied aver a year ago and haven't heard anything about the progress of my application for six month or so.
ambivalentmace:
It's bullshit, unless you still work on a work visa or business visa, on a spousal visa you cant work, so how do you show paying taxes to get the damn thing.
Also you have to stay married to keep it, so if the wife divorces your ass or gets killed by a taxi or bus, your ass is gone. another problem is if you raise kids and you want the kids to spend summers in china with inlaws and school in your home country, you have to be in china 270 days a year to keep the visa, so your kids are in boarding schools, not with dad, it's not really permanent. it's a bullshit propoganda program for face and to look hospitable and it's a scam.
Stiggs:
I always sort of assumed it was partly so the govt can point to the rule that's on their books and show they 'don't discriminate', so that when the high up officials decide to send their kids abroad or desert the ship with their ill gotten gains they aren't automatically denied.
It might be possible technically, but in reality I doubt it.
I think it would be like Scahtz said. You're free to apply, don't call them they'll call you but in the meantime I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for your green card to be delivered.
From what I understand those cards are pretty rare and the people that do get them are probably bringing some very hard to find skills and knowledge to China.
retiredinchina:
If you have a company and employees and paying taxes into the system, you got a chance, no money, your SOL, also with security tracking and facial recognition, your basically locked into china for 270 days a year to keep it. Depending on your family or business interests and changes in your life, this could be hard to maintain.