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[doogs09]

Okay then, does anyone have any first hand experience of deportation? None of this 'I heard of a guy' or 'a friend of a friend' stuff. I read all the time about the dangers of deportation when working on an L visa, but I've yet to read or hear about anyone who has actually been deported for it.

If your working for a school on an L visa, then the school has as much to lose as you do, they are after all knowingly employing you illegally. My own experience was that I was lied to by the school to get me over quickly, they said I could come over on an L and have it converted when they knew that was impossible. They did however take copies of my passport and asked for passport size photographs because they had to register me at the local police station, and when I moved apartment I had to register a new, closer police station. The apartments I and my colleagues, about half of whom were working on L visas lived in were supplied by the local government, not the school, and we were all regularly invited to dinner with the Mayor and Education Department officials, so the local government certainly knew we were working and not just sight seeing.

Based on my personal experience then, not just the opinions and anecdotal evidence of people on these and other boards, the only drawback to working on an L visa is the added expense of regular Hong Kong visa runs, which I like doing anyway, as I get two or three paid days off work and it's only a couple of hours away and I love visiting HK.

[mike w]

Your residential status has nothing to do with your visa type. Anyone, irrespective of visa type, is required to register where they living, unless in a hotel, where the hotel does it for you.

Incidentally, the chances are that the teacher would get into deeper trouble than the school, simply because the school may have 'connections' within local government and / or PSB.

[chinatwin88]

[Teatime of Soul]

Has anyone got proof that standing in he path of a speeding train can be dangerous? I'm not talking newspaper accounts, friend of a friend accounts or coroner's inquests. I'm talking personal proof!

Just as I suspected. Nobody here can offer proof it is dangerous to stand in font of a speeding train.

Seriously, there have been several posters here these last year or two that posted their goodbye posts on his forum. One could look it up (if one were inclined to believe them).

But the ones who come over, after being told it might be risky, and then flame out. They don't seem inclined to post much about being deported.

Do your due diligence and the odds are greatly in your favor.

I have never known anyone who did proper due diligence, (talking with current and former teachers, license checking, etc.) who had a negative experience.



In he end, you have to decide what level of risk taking is right for you.

[chinatwin88]