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wangdaning · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 3154

I haven't left the country in 5 years.

Professional TEFLer · Joined: 09 May 2013 Posts: 77

Are these the national FBI checks like are required for other Asian countries?

wuliuchiba · Joined: 07 Jul 2013 Posts: 61

South Korea, Vietnam, and Japan require an FBI check. The rest don't.

One problem for Americans is that the U.S. is a very jail-happy society. We put more people in prison than Russia, China, Brazil, and the EU combined. There are quite a few "crimes" such as walking home from the bar while drunk which would not be a crime in any other country, will put you in jail in the U.S. How many teachers currently in China would have "criminal" records if a law like that was enforced the same way it is in the U.S.? I've lived in Asia before and there are a LOT of things that you can get away with in Asia (especially when it comes to traffic!) that would make you a felon in the U.S. In the U.S., if you talk back to a police officer, you get charged with resisting arrest. This is not a paranoid joke. If you haven't been back to the U.S. post 9/11, you will be in for a rude shock at what our society has allowed to become in terms of police power. It's even illegal to photograph cops doing their jobs (1st amendment?). And they say that China is a police state? You're a lot freer there than in the Land of the Free today.

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Markness · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 738 Location: Chengdu

Can someone explain this visa process out properly for me. Someone told me before that you have to go home annually to renew everything in order to continue working there, is that truly the case? Or does this only happen if you switch companies? If you switch companies in the same city does this legally require you to return home and restart the entire process in order to attain a Z-visa again?

wangdaning · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 3154

No, no, and no. If you change you need some documents confirming you completed the contract and the new school will get you a new residence permit for the new job.

Issues do arise if you leave unfavourably and the old school wants to shaft you.

mike w · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 1:13 am Post subject:

16 years in China. Changed city once. Changed employer 4 times.
Never had to return to UK to restart the process. Always had the correct visa type.

BUT, Chinese rules are rules on paper only. The interpretation of those can and does vary enormously between provinces, cities, employers, and even the local PSB. So that in reality, there are no hard and fast rules.

Whatever applies in the city and province you are working are tje rules that will affect you.

Markness · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 738 Location: Chengdu

Wow, thanks guys for the replies. Is there any specific locations where they are cracking down super hard on enforcing the rules? I know these questions sound odd, but I am just curious. I don't want to get my heart set on a city and discover that its a head ache to live there.

isitts · Joined: 04 Jun 2010 Posts: 193 Location: Korea