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Q: New Rule for Z-Visa: Go back to Home country?
My friend is applying to be an English Teacher somewhere in North China. He is getting ready to apply for the Z-Visa and he is telling me that there is a new law that one must return back to their home country in order to obatin a Z-Visa?
If this is true he needs to throw away over a months pay for this??????
What the hell is he talking about?????????????
Supposedly this the info the school is telling him. Can't he just go to HKG or across the boarder to Mongolia for this???
11 years 22 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
Z visa sponsor (School) apply for Z visa pick-up location at PSB. If PSB agree, FT can get Z in HK, then you go to HK, and if PSB doesn't agree, FT must go home for Z visa.
Tianjin, Beijing, Guangzhou and ....(I can't remember, which is the 4th Province!) PSB require FT apply for Z in country of origin, only!
If your School is in Jiangsu or any other Province then 4 above, PSB might grant Z pick-up in Hong Kong.
dom87:
guangzhou is not true, they also let you go to hk. at least some friends of mine are doing their z visas for guangzhou in hk now
CARLGODWIN1983:
One word that dictates bending the official rules.
Guanxi
I can confrim;
Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and Guangzhou (inc Shenzhen) require return to HC.
ironman510:
We had a teacher finish his Z visa in Hong Kong this week. He was from Canada.
What nationality is your friend?? His might be on the "You don't agree with China" blacklist for the moment...
Of course, they might just be dicking him around because they can....
I'm not involved in the English teaching game, but I do know that all my mainland visa's come from L.A. and I've never actually gone there once. I'd recommend paying an agent to send it abroad and then send it back. The right price can get you almost anything. The PSB won't know or care that you went to HK, waited a few days, then got your fresh from wherever else visa.
kirateach:
Where can I find an agent to do this? I've emailed a couple in HK, they tell me that the invitation letter must state HK and then they'll submit it to the Chinese consulate in HK to be processed. However the school I want to work for say they can only process the documents for me to apply in my home country (UK) and they're not licensed to apply for the visa elsewhere. It's Zhuhai (Guangdong) I want to work in. Could I get an agent who will accept an invitation letter stating UK, and then they'll send it to be stamped in the UK ? If so PLEASE tell me who to ask. Many thanks
I'm American, and many recruiters from the tier 1 cities said that I had to go back to America to get a Z visa. It's usually only the bigger cities (Guangzhou, etc) that require it.
Other cities are a bit more... accommodating.
In most cases, this is because he is either here on an L, F, or X visa, and not a Z. He needs a FEC in-country, and a release-letter from his employer, and then he can go. I could be wrong, but this is what I've been told...
vman111:
He is on a tourist Visa. The area is in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia which i think is a tier 2 city. What is FEC?
Hulk:
Foreign Expert Certificate. Since he's on a tourist visa, he needs to find a place that will allow him to do this from Hong Kong.
From my 7 year experience in China I see that the visa game played here is tit for tat with America. Wjen the U.S. makes visas more difficult to obtain for Chinese, they retaliate in kind. I will be so glad when they introduce the five year visa.
it is not new. it's practised since 2007 if i remembered it right.
until you have the connection in the government, then you can change the visa issue place in HK of the invitation letter. then you can go to HK for the Z visa. otherwise, you have to go back to your country for the z visa.
Chester
