Just pulled my contract. I work at a public uni. No specific wording about z visa or FEC, etc. What it says is, "Party A shall provide Party B necessary working and living conditions."
Is that the government contract or the specific contract/agreement between you and the uni?
That's really broad, but I take it to include the necessary documents so that I can legally work for them. Maybe I'm not picky enough. But - they aren't going to do anything to get themselves in trouble, so I trust them to take care of those details on my behalf, without it being more specific in the contract.
Call me naive, but I'd take the guy's word that based on the fact that he represents a public university that his credibility - at least on applying for and securing documents - is sound.
You're probably right. I just feel though that this FAO guy have been a little condescending towards me. As The Local Dialect said on the other thread, the question is "Do I really want this job?"
That is the question.
http://raoulschinasaloon.com/index.php?topic=3819.msg74124#msg74124Damn, I'm in a quandary. Forces are pulling in opposite directions and I'm rent apart. [sighs]. I've no fecking idea what to do. He sent me his last e-mail earlier today. I still haven't replied. I REALLY find annoying that first sentence in his last e-mail, "Ok. You
may go to another job interview.".
I met the guy. He wrote that he talked to a police officer who confirmed that I could apply for a work visa in Hong Kong. Yet, another guy, a representative of Beijing Jiaotong University, rang me yesterday and told me categorically that I cannot apply for a Z visa in Hong Kong. My Chinese friend and I had sent, what do you call 'em, cold e-mails to as many uni e-mail addresses that we could find with all my info and this guy from Jiaotong university in Beijing got back within a day.
Even though I only talked to him for a minute, I trust him more than I trust the FAO guy from Beijing Youth University for Political Sciences. It would appear that
indeed I will have to go back to my home country of Ireland to reapply for a work visa to work in the municipality of Beijing in strict interpretation of the laws of the People's Republic of China and I'm not one for encouraging or participating in the breaking of or bending of laws in this country. If I need to go back to my home country at this stage to start from scratch to reapply for a work visa to work in Beijing then so be it. It makes sense actually that there is still a requirement in Beijing (like last year) to go back to one's home country to re-apply for a work visa if one has no time. This October is the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China. If the tourist visa issuance situation in Beijing is anything to go by, (the circumstances under which issuing tourist visas in Beijing are very tight these days), then issuing work visas to work in Beijing in countries other than one's home country is going to be disallowed.
I mean the FAO guy from Beijing Youth University for Political Sciences said some absolutely outrageous things to me already. He told me that I could find part time work this summer in Beijing on a tourist visa I was planning to get in Hong Kong just by contacting the same recruiter who contacted me about his job offer. I think he pulled that one out of his arse. And, he also wrote to me that a police officer told him that I can apply for a z visa to work in Beijing to re-enter mainland China from Hong Kong. I think this police officer he also opportunistically pulled out of his arse. And if this police officer does exist, I reckon he's just as clueless as this FAO guy is. I'll be fair to this FAO guy though, he's not the head of the FAO office. There's little room for negotiation he can do without approval of the FAO director. The FAO Director is off for the weekend and apparently, according to the FAO guy, uncontactable.