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Bud Powell
Joined: 11 Jul 2013
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You will have to take another physical when you arrive, but DO bring the results of your home physical with you.
Visa courier services are the way to go. In the U.S., I recommend Travel Document Systems. |
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The_Kong
Joined: 15 Apr 2014
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:34 pm Post subject: Re: Using a visa processing service |
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| Bud Powell wrote: |
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| I am waiting to receive my work permit and invitation letter. I have heard it can take multiple attempts to get the z-visa approved. |
Bull Chips. Either you're approved or you're not. (i.e., Either you meet qualifications or you don't. One doesn't continue to apply until he is accepted. If the school (or the Ministry of Education) accepts you, the local consulate will accept you. It may be a different story once you arrive in China and take the physical). |
Bud is right, I've been doing recruiting for several years now and either they accept you or not.
The only need to apply multiple times is if the school/you provide the wrong documents.
The only time we had to reapply was when I sent the wrong translation of a University degree to the vice-principal (who physically handles the visa applications) and he didn't notice so when it was submitted the Degree was fine but the translation was for a different applicant. They informed us within a day that the application was rejected because of that, I realized the mistake and sent the proper one and the application was accepted. |
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True Blue
Joined: 12 Nov 2014
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 4:05 am Post subject: |
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Bud gives great advice in this thread but I would make three more additions to your preparations for your China adventure:
1) Bring certified copies of all your important documents (diplomas, tefl certificates, awards, birth certificate, divorce certificate, transcripts, etc) and of course your passport that has at least a year remaining before expiration with a Z visa affixed inside. You may not need all these documents to teach in China but you may need them for other things that come up unexpectedly - like marriage, getting business licenses, etc.
2) Bring at least $3,000 of emergency cash just in case things are not to your liking in China, you get swindled, or you simply cannot adapt to the new lifestyle (about a third of foreign teachers don't stay in China more than six months) Take note that many of your credit cards will not work in China. Be sure to notify your credit card companies that you a will be in China for a few months or the ATM machines will grab your card and tell you to visit your local bank home to get a new card because their security safeguards caught "someone" in China was caught using your card!
3) Take five minutes to read this warning which many people take for granted: http://www.chinascamwatch.org/warning-.html
Safe journey and welcome to China! |
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Bud Powell
Joined: 11 Jul 2013
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| True Blue wrote: |
Bud gives great advice in this thread but I would make three more additions to your preparations for your China adventure:
1) Bring certified copies of all your important documents (diplomas, tefl certificates, awards, birth certificate, divorce certificate, transcripts, etc) and of course your passport that has at least a year remaining before expiration with a Z visa affixed inside. You may not need all these documents to teach in China but you may need them for other things that come up unexpectedly - like marriage, getting business licenses, etc.
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If your legal presence in China comes into doubt, your documents will need to be authenticated before you leave home. I seriously doubt that someone in China who doubts that one is married will accept anything but an authenticated document. Same for a degree. Certification from your home country is meaningless in China, despite the fact that China signed on to the Dayton Accord and the Hague Agreement over ten years ago. These international agreements require governments to recognize official documents from other countries as bona fide. If the consulate accepts them as bonafide, and you are issued a visa based upon the documents presented to them, you don't need to carry them with you. The consulate's word is the last word.
If one is worried that his credentials will come into question, he should go all the way and have his certificates and degrees authenticated by the Chinese Consulate. Then he can carry them with him to China. Anything less than that won't mean diddly to anyone in the People's Republic of Capitalism.
Years ago, protocol required that the process begin at the lowest local level at home (in the U.S.), then move to the state level to the State Attorney General, then to the U.S. Department of State.
THEN, all that had to be sent to the Chinese Consulate for further certification. A letter was attached to copies of your credentials, and TA DA! everything was bullet-proof legitimate.
I don't think that anyone in the PSB (or whoever doubts the authenticity of your credentials in China) will accept anything except authentication from the Chinese consulate. After all, it has a nice rice paper cover page, and bears the signature of Patrick Hatchett, and the documents are all defaced with several red chops.
Unless you get authentication from the consulate, you're wasting time getting some notary's imprint. A notary can only certify that a copy is an actual copy of an original. It does not attest to the authenticity of the original. Local certification would consist of an ATTACHED (with a grommet) affidavit attesting to the authenticity of the document.
That's the way it works.
Been there, done that.
If you want to get married in China, there's a special process that you'll have to go through to verify that you are unencumbered by a legal spouse. Each state has a different name for it. The state will issue a document which you will present to your local Chinese poobah. |
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Scrabble King
Joined: 25 Dec 2014
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In 2015 you MUST have a Z visa to work in China and to get your residence permit. You also MUST have a genuine university degree/diploma and in Beijing and Shanghai you also MUST have a police certificate to prove you have no felony convictions. If anyone tries to tell you differently, tell them to go read http://chinascamwatch.org and remember the golden rule...
NO Z VISA = SCAM |
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coldcucumber
Joined: 21 Dec 2012
Posts: 114
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Scrabble King wrote: |
In 2015 you MUST have a Z visa to work in China and to get your residence permit. You also MUST have a genuine university degree/diploma and in Beijing and Shanghai you also MUST have a police certificate to prove you have no felony convictions. If anyone tries to tell you differently, tell them to go read http://chinascamwatch.org and remember the golden rule...
NO Z VISA = SCAM |
Yes on the first two counts, z visa only, and esl carts don't hurt of course, but the Cafu stuff is baloney. |
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sharona
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
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I had really big hopes on China as still being the one last place I could teach without a degree and still make reasonable money so I can continue travelling.
I taught there for 6 mths five years ago. When I was there a good school in Guangdong agreed to hire me and managed to obtain a resident's permit for me but I messed up and came home early.
The same school sounds like they may be willing to consider re-employing me later this year. Alternatively I was hoping to go to Kunming (Yunnan).
I guess my questions are -
I need the Z visa to get the residency permit to legally stay & teach, correct?
And technically I can't get the Z visa without a degree unless the school can somehow wrangles it?
And if they do but I get caught will I be fined / deported? How true is this?
http://www.chinascamwatch.org/foreign-teacher-facts.html
I appreciate any advice / recommendations / fairy godmother visitations, etc... |
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Kaisho
Joined: 27 Feb 2015
Posts: 1
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Hi all,
I'm a brand new ESL noob starting my journey in mid-April. My CELTA will be complete in mid-May. I will definitely apply for jobs in Thailand, but I want to explore options in China too.
I would like to know if it is possible to apply for a Z visa at a consulate outside of my home country (United States)? Just in case I do find a job in China, I would like to bring the necessary documents with me to Thailand including the health check results. I have the results from a statewide criminal check. Will that be sufficient?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you! |
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