New F Visa regulations

by **Macpod** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:35 pm

as of 1st of august, all f visa will require the actual business registration certificate of the sponsoring company, NOT a photocopy. I found out this yesterday when i went to reapply.

WHY THE F_U_C_K

by **Macpod** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:36 pm

Do they expect everyone to bring the bloody glass mounted thing to pudong just to show the unintereste clerk at the desk!!!

by **dragond69** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:45 pm

Yup... the reason is there are too many fake copies going around. It is a crack down on illegal workers.

by **horsemandk** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:36 pm

Yup, that's the way it is and they're planning to widen this so that you in future can't apply yourself only the company can, but lets see if they can push it through.

by **robnot** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:06 pm

man that really sucks. do you need to leave the original copy at the immigration office? these things are so precious to the company in question I feel bad enough asking to borrow it. I would hate to have to leave it there for several days till my extension gets processed.

by the way could anyone also tell me how far in advance of your F visa expiring you have to go to immigration office (1500 min sheng rd) to apply for extension?

by **oreowawa** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:32 am

Weird, the visa agent I went to did not even need me to provide a photocopy. I believed they have their ways. Wonder this will affect them now.

by **Macpod** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:21 am

I didnt goto an agent. this is probably why they started this ****, your agent probably has a cupboard full of fake fotocopies!

It takes 3 business ofr the visa to be processed. Id go a week in advance just to be safe. but dont go too early because th new visa starts ont he day you get it renewed, not when the old one dues.

by **Macpod** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:22 am

nah i dont think they need to keep it. I didnt have it so they just asked me to bing it when i picked up the visa.

by **Dazza** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:53 pm

Just a notice displayed on one agencies website concerning F Visa.

Dear customer, since mid August,2006, the government has changed the procedures for processing F business visas.

As the situation is not very stable yet, we can not guaranty services and prices. If you want to apply for a visa, please contact us either by phone or email to get the latest update before coming to our office.

This situation is as unpleasant for you as for us but as more and more foreigners are coming to SHANGHAI, the Chinese government is just in the process of tightening all the rules in order to improve their surveillance on expatriates movements in and out of the Chinese territory.

We apologize again for this inconvenience and hope that this situation is going to stabilize rapidly.

by **dragond69** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:48 pm

Well this is because they don't have enough experience. A good visa company has no problems for 99% of situatons. Call Dave at 13818894237 and he won't have a problem helping you out.

by **alex.cg** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:01 pm

Anyone else have any experience with Dave? Just called him now and he seems to know what he's doing, but I'm just making sure.

by **TheDudeAbides** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:01 pm

You used to only need an invitation letter! I just checked emoo.net, the place where I got my visa done, they now charge double what they used to.

by **Dazza** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:10 pm

^ The statement I posted previous was from emoo, so Im not surprised that the price has been hiked up.

by **alex.cg** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:04 pm

I tried emoo and VisaInChina a few days ago and they couldn't help at all with converting L to F. Even if they're charging double, at least it's no longer impossible.

Still a PITA though

by **TheDudeAbides** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:50 am

Oh yeah, I just saw that too.

I wonder if this will continue or die down after a while. I suspect that some of these visa offices (emoo etc) have an "inside person" in the main visa department, who gets a slice of the profit and helps to make it happen/turn a blind eye to it. Maybe with these new regulations people who were doing that are laying low for a while to stay under the radar, then slowly it'll become easier again, or at least that's what I'm hoping.

by **dragond69** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:00 pm

It all depends on how established you are. Like I mentioned only Hotsun Visas can take care of 99% of problems that all the others can't and they charge less than the others.

by **robnot** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:13 pm

do they have a website and email address?

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