By continuing you agree to eChinacities's Privacy Policy .
Sign up with Google
Sign up with Facebook
Q: Is a foreigner with Spouse Visa allowed to work in China?
If a foreigner moves into China with his/her spouse (wife/husband), is he/she allowed to work fulltime under Spouse Visa?
8 years 5 days ago in Visa & Legalities - China
Not legally! Work visa (Z) is required to work in China.
I can't add letter zZ for some reason????
Not legally! Work visa (Z) is required to work in China.
I can't add letter zZ for some reason????
Some schools will break the rule, but to make it easier for them to consider you, tell them to pay your spouse's bank account and not yours, provided the spouse is Chinese of course, or spend a little money and get a business visa for about 5k a year versus 400 rmb for the z visa, and teach lessons privately if you have a silent Chinese partner of course.
ScotsAlan:
Not everyone is employed by schools. The OP might be anything. Why do you always assume everyone does ESL?
whocaresreally:
You can set up any business and get around the rule, furniture company, engineering consulting, plastics fabrication, but z visa for non education are only 20 percent of the total, by his name maybe he wants to import and export on the new train to Iran.
whocaresreally:
By the way "why do you" , do I know you, "always", newbie here, my uncle told me to be careful on this site.
Hotwater:
Did you read the question?
The OP won't need a business visa as he'll have a spouse visa! Are you icnif in disguise?
Hotwater:
One other point whocaresreally.
You suggest setting up a business here. Do you know how much it costs to set up a business so you can get a Z-visa/work permit and legally work? The lawyers fees for the paperwork are 20k rmb at least! Then there's the investment required.
whocaresreally:
He can't work on a spouse visa, at least one of them, never said if one of them was Chinese, a recent law graduate can do the papers on the side for extra income much cheaper than using a law firm, can't trust law firms anyway and if you have someone who is good in Chinese, you can download the documents and set up the business yourself, you can set corporations without lawyers, the info to do this for all countries is all over the internet. Some American friends that immigratied from China have incorporated and divorced with documents on the internet.
Lawyers are for the lazy now, most of them are not worth buying a beer and the secretary does most of the work.
If your not married to a Chinese national, set up the business, the wife gets paid as a contractor for whoever she works for and you pay her after laundering the money through your businesses and paying taxes on it.
I know four former English teachers in China that have set up schools and pay taxes and did not need to spend 20k for papers and licenses. i suppose that enough facts were not given but the cost benefit analysis is different for every venture. Many English teachers in tier 3 or tier 4 cities have never paid in taxes in China and are paid in cash. I was the accountant you hire to hide your dirty money from the honest accountant that does your books, so bending rules is my hobby you might say.
No you can't, but anyone I've met with a Q visa does it anyway. Why? Because they are the main provider for the family, no choice sometimes. I still feel China will allow this someday.
