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I need help getting a new visa. Please provide the name and contact information for a visa assistance company in Chengdu. Thank you.
11 years 4 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - Chengdu
What kind of visa are you wanting? What is your nationality?
I am an American seeking to renew a Z visa, but without a release letter from my former employer.
Employing procedures are as follows:
1, the employing institution autonomy and foreign applicants to finalize terms and conditions of employment contracts, signed, report to the local administrative department of Education (provincial colleges directly reported to the provincial administrative department of education). The need for teachers to provide general conditions: 1) the minimum standards of teacher's salary per month prescribed by 2200 yuan / person, not on cap; 2) one year contract offer from the international travel or set a maximum limit (generally 7000 to 8000 yuan), six months period to provide a single ticket; 3) to provide free housing, general requirements: have a separate bedroom, living room, toilet and bathroom, color TV, air-conditioning and heating, can set up internet telephone, refrigerator, washing machine and the necessary furniture; 4) in addition to give certain telephone charges, charges for water and electricity subsidies or bear in full; 5) 2200 yuan travel subsidies every year; 6) according to the Chinese workers standard medical subsidies; 7) enjoy paid vacation; 7) transfer to the nearest International Airport); 8 teaching hours generally in 12 to 16 hours per week;
2, the provincial education administrative departments shall be approved and issued the invitation letter and experts confirmed cases (some provinces to the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office for the two documents);
3, delivery of invitation and experts confirmed to foreign teachers, foreign teachers in our country;
4 in the consulates and embassies to apply for a work visa. Namely: Z visa or lecturing visa, namely: F visa;
5, teachers determine the arrival date, booking air tickets, notify the hiring unit machine;
6, teachers at the school. In addition, because many employers hire time of emergency, many domestic provinces, city can agree to each unit let teachers first bid for the travel visa to China, after arrival in a month by the employing units to change the visa prefix.
I'm sorry, but it is very difficult, if not impossible, to get a Z without the release letter. Your past employer is legally obligated to give you one, though, provided that you either served out the terms of your contract, used the exit clause in your contract, or basically ended your employment in any way that is not a midnight run. If you terminated your contract legally, then you can, in fact, squeeze the papers out of them using the PSB bureau that granted them (I'm not saying it's easy, but you could). If you made a midnight run, your employer is not obligated to give you the documents. I am not saying this to be snotty--I just don't want you paying a visa agency for a service, when they will then just throw up their hands after taking your money, and tell you that they cannot perform. Shan Shai is the agency I had friends use in Chengdu...they never had a problem with it.
Find another employer and do a Hong Kong run, if you start from scratch you do not need the release letter and as of now, Chengdu is not on the list for foreigners to go back to their home country to do the Z visa