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joemac332
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 Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: Visa Question |
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| I just have a quick question. I'm here on a tourist visa now, but I'm going to switch to a student visa. I want to give some private English lessons and my Chinese friend told me that I wouldn't need a work visa because I would only be working part-time. Is this true? If I do really need a work visa, what are the chances of getting caught giving private lessons without one? |
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Millerlong
Joined: 21 May 2003
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Location: Shanghai, China
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Come on!!! This is a strange question. You are doing some part-time tutoring, how is anyone going to find out? If they did find out would they care? Of course not. |
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mlomker
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: Re: Visa Question |
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| I've never heard of anyone getting busted for that. You'd think if it were a big deal that someone would have made a post in the last few years that I've been hanging out here. |
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abusalam4
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| For private tuition, you won't be required to have a Z visa. |
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Steppenwolf
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:57 am Post subject: |
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Your Chinese friend is correct: as a STUDENT you are NOT SUPPOSED to work, and as a TEACHER you are NOT SUPPOSED to study...
But rules are not always enforced; your friend is wrong in saying that PART-TIME workers need a work visa: in fact you need a visa to be hired in ANY capacity, and not many are welcome to work part-time.
Your friend probably wants you to join a training centre that has part-time vacancies. Well, they can hire you full-time and you might still have enough time to study although it would be difficult to not have a clash of different timetables. |
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englishgibson
Joined: 09 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject: Re: Visa Question |
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Stepp cleared the air there. 
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| I've never heard of anyone getting busted for that.. |
now, hypothetically, if you happen to be teaching a son of some government official and he decides to not like you  ...or if this son tells his father you've taught a bit about geography and that Taiwain does not belong to China ..busted or deported ....but then i myself have heard only a very few stories about those who've actually had to be helped to the plane 
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| For private tuition, you won't be required to have a Z visa. |
If you have income from that "tuition", you'll always need to have a Z or Residency Permit for the purpose to work.
Peace to our ideas of surviving in China
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cheers and beers to our quality of teaching  |
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cj750
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| I have been tld it is much like the states..part time work n campus does not require a visa..so if teaching or tutoring part time with other students on campus...should be no prob.. |
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