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Q: Z visa question.
What should I do if I still have valid Z visa, but don't work in the company which provided me with this visa any more and currently don't have anu other employee?
12 years 10 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
Technically, your visa was cancelled when you stopped working for the company that provided you with the visa.
If you plan to get another employer soon, then wait until you have one and then ask them to do the paperwork required for PSB to grant you a new work and residence permits based on new employer. Must be sure, prior to accepting job offer, the new employer is indeed qualified and authorized to hire foreign workers.
If you do not plan to work anymore here, then you must leave the mainland and apply for a new visa as tourist or whatever you fancy.
Unless they reported that you no longer work for them, your visa is legit. Even then, you would be informed of when you are to leave the country and such.
You cannot have a valid Z visa according to what you say. Z-visa is only valid for one month. It is a temporary visa which you use to apply for working permit. The working permit is connected to a certain company. If you (officially) no longer work with the company, you need to apply for new visa or try to find another job. iQubator can hire its business support office clients, but it can be a costly solution unless you also are in need of a office solution and other support services (since the support office is the actual service, working permit is just part of it).
IQubator, while in a way technically correct, in his advertising pitch is also partially wrong. Maybe too much efrfort to do advertising, and not enough in really answering the posted question.
A work visa, or "Z" type visa, is valid for one year from issue. BUT, you are given 30 days from entering China and prior to start working on your job to go to the local PSB and obtain your Foreign Expert Certificate, your work permit and your residence permit. And you better, prior to going to PSB, get the Registration Form of Temporary Residence from the local Police Station near where you live.
But not because you did the above, or fail to do it, your work visa will expire on the date it says on the visa, not 30 days after issued, asd he/she claims on the reply.
AS LONG AS YOUR FORMER EMPLOYER DOES NOT NOTIFY PSB THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER WORKING FOR THEM, YOUR PAPERS ARE VALID. Once they notify PSB, they will look for you and give you a time frame of time to leve China. In the meantime, as suggested. get busy finding another job and get your work permit changed to the new employer if you wish to remain in China.
Ok, most of these posts are correct but let me clarify one aspect that seems to be what I hear alot but not at all true. If you are on a resident visa but do not work for anyone or they inform the PSB, they will not kick you out of China. This is a typical scare tactic used by Chinese employeers to keep employees in line. The problem lies in transferring resident visas and foreign expert visas after 90 days of a foreign expert certificate being cancelled. Although I have a friend in Beijing who works with this and for 9000 rmb can write the things you need to accomplish whatever you need done. By the way, you don not have to leave China to change a visa into L or F. Although if you want to change it into an F visa, you'll need an agency. Please, no one has the right to cancel your visa, only your foreign expert certificate. Never give your employeer your passport for any other reason other than to process your visa.
please how can i get to that person who can help to give business visa ?email is coolman.larry@yahoo.com my telephone is 15897917000 larry is my name
To the best of my knowledge, Z visa never expuires becuase you have unlimited days to stay. It is the working and the foreign expert license that is only valid for 1 year and upon expiry, you renew it.
The best thing you can do is to get a company and let them do all the paper work for you so that you get a new resident permit and foreign expert license.
In some cases, the PSB will require a recommendation leter, coppy of the agreement letter(contact form signed between you and your former employer).
BSomtimes, it might not be neccessary cause it might depend on the company and the province since almost every province in China has it's own rules.
