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Firearcher · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 35

1. Can provide17k~25k rmb per month
2. This is a contract job.
3. Arrive school ASAP
4..provide Chinese class
5.provide flight allowance every year
6.provide free apartment
7.provide working visa
do you have skype or wechat ? shall we talk online ?

I have been offered to interview for this job in Foshan. I have not been told the name of the school.

Free apt and a sky high salary. Could this be a case of identity theft? A person sends their docs to a fictional job. Any thoughts?

happeningthang · Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 117

Scam to glean personal information from the gullible.

To avoid such criminality send all original documents along with a credit history and signed power of attorney to my PO box in the Cayman Islands.

Non Sequitur · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 4724 Location: China

Do I have a bridge for you!

OhBudPowellWhereArtThou · Joined: 02 Jun 2015 Posts: 1168 Location: Since 2003

Get the name of the school. Check it out online. No Name, no go.

Will the school provide a Z visa BEFORE you arrive? (This entails jumping through many hoops). No? Flush it.

No Z visa requiring degree, authentication, and (usually) at-home med check, punt that baby.

For fun, find out what "Chinese class" is.

Don't send any documents until you verify the authenticity of the school.

Good luck.

lionheartuk · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 173 Location: Guangdong

Foshan is in Guangdong so the new rules apply regarding z visas and medical checks etc.

MsHoffman · Joined: 18 Sep 2016 Posts: 76

I'm in Guangdong now going through the process of converting a tourist visa to a Z visa. So far it is very straightforward. I had to do all the work permit stuff in the U.S. first - degree authenticated, medical check with the usual blood, chest x-ray, and EKG test, etc.

The university submitted my paperwork before I left the US and got me the work permit approval.

Then I got a tourist visa and came here. I did the required second medical check here today, and next week I will take my medical certificate to the immigration office for my resident permit, foreign expert certificate, etc. I expect to be teaching the first week of December.

I think overall it is an okay process but getting the tourist visa is a bit tricky. I had to make hotel and round-trip plane reservations, print them out (to submit with my application for the tourist visa), and then cancel them. When I booked my flight it was round-trip, and yes when I checked in at the airport the gentleman checked my visa and confirmed my return flight. So all in all it is a little counter-intuitive, and a bit expensive as the return flight had to be within the 60-day tourist visa window.

I realize this is outside of the norm - keep in mind this is specific to Guangdong province only. Also it is important to verify the school no matter what.

Anyway, I will post again once

LarssonCrew · Joined: 06 Jun 2009 Posts: 1308

You can make reservations on Agoda with a 'pay at hotel' option.

returnflights.net for a fake return ticket

No point actually spending any money.

OhBudPowellWhereArtThou · Joined: 02 Jun 2015 Posts: 1168 Location: Since 2003

hz88 · Joined: 27 Sep 2015 Posts: 162

I'm with Bud on this one.

I can't profess to be familiar with what is happening in Guangdong although I do know a Foreign Affairs Officer in Zhuhai who told me that everything is still up in the air so they are still following old protocols for now.

From the convoluted story you have told I cannot see any gain to a foreigner to follow it. If the school/university is able to process your application they could simply have sent you the documents to your own country, you could have applied there and as Bud said came in on a one way ticket, no need for booking hotels and other nonsense. They would then have simply taken you for a second medical and processed your foreign experts book application and then residents permit.

As someone who has dealt with this continually evolving process for well over three years I cannot see any benefit to the school either.

I'm prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt as an apparent newbie but your story does leave me doubtful that either you have been misinformed, your school is testing the water and you are the guinea pig or a combination of both. I would not be however surprised if you find yourself crossing the border to HK due to an apparent 'change in the system'.

The whole thing sounds like a cover story for 'come in on a tourist visa and we will deal with your application then'.

Anyway as I said I'm not making judgements as I don't have all the facts.

Good Luck whatever happens.