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inchinanow · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 102 Location: China

I have received confusing and conflicting information regarding this question. So I would like to take a poll. Please, only those who are confident of their position should vote.

eddy-cool · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 1008

You should leave us the option to answer 'Don't know'.

Clearly you have a more authoritative avenue to go and ask your question - the various provinces themselves.

inchinanow · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 102 Location: China

I thought about adding the option "Don't Know", but that is something that I would expect anyway, given the confusion surrounding this topic. So I wanted people who have experience to take an educated guess, either yes or no.

Hansen · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 737 Location: central China

X: Won't know until you try.

inchinanow · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 102 Location: China

X: Won't know until you try.

So true! Maybe I'll have the definitive answer for you in 45 days.

Kirkpatrick · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 205 Location: China

Yes you can but you will have to go to another provience and you will need to get the z visa before you enter china... No L visa then visa run to HongKong..

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

It is not "I don't know" It's "It depends"

What were the circumstances? Overall you can. I know of situations. But if you did somenting suficiently horrendus, it is possible you won't be able to.

Eddy

inchinanow · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 102 Location: China

Just left with one day notice. Nothing more than that.

inchinanow · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 102 Location: China

I will know for sure about this in one month, since I am going back. So I will report the result. Very Happy

changshaman · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 36

Lhenderson · Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 135 Location: Shanghai JuLu Road

I voted 'yes' but it all depends on how influencial your former school is.

There is a nation wide 'blacklist'. I know of several people who can never work in China again.

james s · Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 676 Location: Raincity

blacklist?

the concept is one that i have heard of, but it is a difficult thing to manage what with personal opinion being the basis for the 'blacklist'.

you never truly know who was the evil one in the situation and I do have a difficult time seeing President Hu attempting to justify this to the free world.

If anyone should have been blacklisted it would have been me. Several times. I got screwed at so many places and had to do what i had to do to survive.

Got visas from the same officials in the same city less than 30days after a 'runner' had to be done too.

Not an ounce of guanxi used either. Bad employers are bad employers. They know this. China is trying to clean it up.

inchinanow · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 102 Location: China

Update:

I got my Invitation letter, work permit and Z-Visa. Now it's time to head back to China!!!

The school assures me I can get the Residence permit and the FEC. They don't seem too worried that I don't have a Release Letter from my previous employer in another province. I was honest and up front about the situation. They said "no problem."

I will update latter after I arrive and hopefully get the other documents.

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

If you have your invitation letter, u r golden. it's the letter that says you will be allowed to work here by th same office that issues the FEC. And the PSB couldn't care less about your former school when they issue your RP

mark up another one for the myth of guanxi and the myth of the blacklist

inchinanow · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 102 Location: China

All those who voted with the majority are the winners!!!!

I am now in Beijing with the new FEC and Residence permit!!! No problem.

inchinanow