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Tourist visa - 3 or 6 months?
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20-10-2013 3:21pm#1
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A dual entry visa allows you to exit and re-enter China on the same visa, but only within the period to which the visa is issued. So you still only have 90 days, but you can leave and come come back to China within those 90 days. I've lived in China for a year and a half, but I have a Z visa so I'm not entirely up to speed on the whole F and L visa situations. I know you can go to Hong Kong to change a visa from one form to another (F to Z for example), providing you have the proper paperwork. I'm not sure whether you can go to HK and get a tourist visa for another 90 days. Maybe somebody else can shed some light on this.
And yes, it is illegal to work on a F visa. In saying that, many people here do work on a F visa, so it depends on finding the right job. Plus, I hear they are cracking down on this sort of thing. So it would be a bit of a risk. Do you have a degree?
Yeah I think you need to provide the embassy with the details of your trip when you apply for a tourist visa...including return flights and where you are staying. If your friend is there when you are going, I think you can get him/her to write you an invitation letter stating that you will be staying with them. They need to provide their name, address, phone etc. Again, I'm not sure of the exact details, but as I remember the Chinese embassy website for Ireland contains this information. You could also ring them, they might be able to give you more concrete info.
If you've any other questions feel free to ask
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I've passed final exams. Just waiting on graduation.Ahhhhh its grand wrote: »A dual entry visa allows you to exit and re-enter China on the same visa, but only within the period to which the visa is issued. So you still only have 90 days, but you can leave and come come back to China within those 90 days. I've lived in China for a year and a half, but I have a Z visa so I'm not entirely up to speed on the whole F and L visa situations. I know you can go to Hong Kong to change a visa from one form to another (F to Z for example), providing you have the proper paperwork. I'm not sure whether you can go to HK and get a tourist visa for another 90 days. Maybe somebody else can shed some light on this.
And yes, it is illegal to work on a F visa. In saying that, many people here do work on a F visa, so it depends on finding the right job. Plus, I hear they are cracking down on this sort of thing. So it would be a bit of a risk. Do you have a degree?
Yeah I think you need to provide the embassy with the details of your trip when you apply for a tourist visa...including return flights and where you are staying. If your friend is there when you are going, I think you can get him/her to write you an invitation letter stating that you will be staying with them. They need to provide their name, address, phone etc. Again, I'm not sure of the exact details, but as I remember the Chinese embassy website for Ireland contains this information. You could also ring them, they might be able to give you more concrete info.
If you've any other questions feel free to ask
The situation is a little weird for me as I visited the embassy in Dublin and the lady said I could leave China after 3 months, go to Korea or HK and come back and be activated for another 3 months, on the dual-entry visa. While that is from the horse's mouth as such, the website itself seems to contradict what she said and I don't want to get a dual-entry L visa if it means that I will have to return to Ireland after only 3 months.
I'm deeply reluctant to do anything illegal in China going by the record the country has and even a fine of 5000 RMB would not be great to get, assuming I wouldn't be deported and not allowed back in again. Maybe an F visa without working would be the best bet, but they're much more expensive to get.
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To_be_confirmed wrote: »I've passed final exams. Just waiting on graduation.
The situation is a little weird for me as I visited the embassy in Dublin and the lady said I could leave China after 3 months, go to Korea or HK and come back and be activated for another 3 months, on the dual-entry visa. While that is from the horse's mouth as such, the website itself seems to contradict what she said and I don't want to get a dual-entry L visa if it means that I will have to return to Ireland after only 3 months.
I'm deeply reluctant to do anything illegal in China going by the record the country has and even a fine of 5000 RMB would not be great to get, assuming I wouldn't be deported and not allowed back in again. Maybe an F visa without working would be the best bet, but they're much more expensive to get.
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Yeah I'm not entirely sure myself, I've only ever gotten a Z visa. The visa's themselves are not expensive at all. I think I paid about 40 euro for mine. A friend of mine just recently came to China and I think she paid about the same. The problem with Z and F visa's is that you need to get letters of invitation, and crap like that, before they will issue you the visa at the Irish embassy. In the case of the Z visa, you basically need to have a job lined up. The F visa I'm not too sure about, but I'm pretty sure you also need an invitation from a relevant Chinese authority/company...as it's a business visa.
My advice to you would be to get an standard online tefl cert (if you haven't already got one), and apply for some jobs nearer the time you want to leave. The degree, combined with the tefl, could land you a job that would get you a Z visa. There are some regulations regarding the amount of experience you need in order to get a Z visa, but if there's one thing I've learned here its that the Chinese can pretty much find a way around everything . The fact you have a degree is a massive plus. I know plenty of people here that have gotten Z visa's straight out of college, no work experience whatsoever. So if I were you I would concentrate on this route.
If you have any questions about the Z visa, or China in general, fire away.0 -
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