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goose · Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 32

My contract at my current school expired in July, I renewed the contract for one more term. So the school renewed my residence permit and foreign expert certificate in July for another 6 months. However since the new school term has started my foreign affairs office has asked for some photo's, my physical examination and passport. They said this was needed in order to get the foreign expert certifcate. I told them that mine was renewed in July and that it wasn't necessary. There reply was that there is a new foreign expert certificate and it was because the government agency that handles the foreign expert certificate's has changed their name. This was all a month ago. I haven't gone to get the physical and the school hasn't mentioned this to me again. I was thinking that the leading in the foreign affairs office, heard some rumour and thought that it needed to be changed. But turns out that it doesn't or can wait until the next time I needed to renew the foreign expert certificate.

Anyhow I will still ask has anybody heard of the foreign expert certificate's changing?

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

This is all news to me. If there was going to be a new kind of FEC, then my employer would have told me.

Rabid · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 199

Just had my visa/residents permit renewed, nothing about a new fec and no physical.

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

You did well. A medical examination is never needed to obtain a foreign expert's cert; it is only needed to obtain a resident's permit (or, until recently, to obtain a work visa).

kev7161 · Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 5880 Location: Suzhou, China

Sometimes you don't even need a physical exam. My school got my new FEC back in July for the current school year. They also turned in the paperwork/photo for my Resident Permit and then that was processed at the end of August. I asked about a check-up and was told not necessary because I had been continuously in China since my last set of paperwork a year prior. "Not so," I replied. I had gone to Thailand in January and also going to to the US in mid-August. Still didn't matter. No exam for me this year. I probably NEED one, but . . .

ChinaLady · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:00 am Post subject: Expert Cert?

I now have what in the states would be called a "green card." no Z, no expert cert. my school got it for me. yes, it is a green document in my passport. yes, I did the physical exam again. like an hour with untrained medical people looking in my ears, nose, and mouth. o, and the usual blood check for AIDs. the PBS did keep my cute little green book which I would have loved as a memento but such is life in China.
I really question my FAO when I got my passport back. two other teachers in my school got the same thing.
whatever works - as long as I can come and go to Macau, Hong Kong, etc. for the quick holiday - is fine.

Volodiya · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:55 am Post subject:

ChinaLady wrote:

DistantRelative · Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 367 Location: Shaanxi/Xian

I have what I'm thinkin is the same green document firmly attached to one of the pages in my Passport, and it says "Residence Permit for Foreigner In The People's Republic Of China". Under purpose of Residence it simply says work (in Chinese of course).

Best Wishes,

Shawn

Volodiya · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:57 am Post subject:

ChinaLady wrote: