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[ESL Guru]

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dateline Beijing -

Saturday June 21, 2003

SOURCE: FAO Director - public uni - south Henan Province

Beijing has just issued new regulations for foreigners wishing to obtain a visa for permanent residency in China. The only requirement is that the foreigner must have lived and worked in China for five continuous years.

This is new and different from the "D" visa that requires marriage to a Chinese national.

More to come ---------

[Roger]

Now that IS an interesting piece of news! Does your article say in WHAT CAPACITY one has to have spent five consecutive years in the PRC?
I mean it is easily possible to be a tourist for five years. Would that then facilitate obtaining this new permanent residency paper?
And, do holders of it have to pay taxes?
Need to pass a Mandarin proficiency test?

[senor boogie woogie]

Hola!

Two down and three to go! If China doesn't kill me first.

SENOR

[ESL Guru]

The curent foreign expert regs cleary state that a foreign expert should not be employed in China for more than 5 consecuitive years. It further states that the foreign expert should leave China at the end of five and not return for 2 years.

If the new visa regs are bona fide, they are a major policy shift for China.

[senor boogie woogie]

Hola!

What is the D visa requirement if one is married to a Chinese citizen?

SENOR

[ESL Guru]

One year in Shanghai but others have reported on another thread different time periods in different provinces.

[ESL Guru]

The old reg limiting foreign experts to five years in Country and then two out can be found in:

"2002 Guide To Employment of Foreign Experts in the Fields of Culture & Education," Foreign Language and Teaching Press, prepared by Dept. of Cultural and Educational Experts of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs P.R. of China

See page 76. Chapter VII (4)

I am still trying to get more on the new regs but my FAO is "drunken."