Lost passport in China
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2019 10:29 am
Hoping for someone particularly knowledgeable about the Chinese visa system for this one...
So I had a Z visa, lost my passport with said Z visa before doing my medical/police check in China and getting my residence permit. ****. Filed a police report and got a paper from them saying I have a lost/stolen passport. Went to the consulate to get a temporary passport and also apply for a new permanent one which will be here in a few weeks.
I also have to re-do an FBI background check and get it re-authenticated since my previous one is now expired. Sucks, but okay.
My question is about what my school HR is now telling me. I should preface this by saying that they have been upfront and by-the-book about all visa matters up to this point.
The HR person who accompanied me to the police station is telling me that I don't need to get another Z visa. I can get a "Stay visa" (I don't know what this is) and transfer that to a residence permit. I asked her if she was certain that this was legal, since I thought you could only work on residence permits from Z visas. She assured me it was, because it was a "special issue visa" (also don't know what this means). I obviously don't speak Mandarin, but she appeared to have gotten/verified this information from one of the officers at the police department and seemed genuinely happy to discover it.
However, I'm having an awfully difficult time finding any sort of information on this to verify on my own. Is there anyone here who knows about this, or could point me in the direction where I could find this information?
Thank you
So I had a Z visa, lost my passport with said Z visa before doing my medical/police check in China and getting my residence permit. ****. Filed a police report and got a paper from them saying I have a lost/stolen passport. Went to the consulate to get a temporary passport and also apply for a new permanent one which will be here in a few weeks.
I also have to re-do an FBI background check and get it re-authenticated since my previous one is now expired. Sucks, but okay.
My question is about what my school HR is now telling me. I should preface this by saying that they have been upfront and by-the-book about all visa matters up to this point.
The HR person who accompanied me to the police station is telling me that I don't need to get another Z visa. I can get a "Stay visa" (I don't know what this is) and transfer that to a residence permit. I asked her if she was certain that this was legal, since I thought you could only work on residence permits from Z visas. She assured me it was, because it was a "special issue visa" (also don't know what this means). I obviously don't speak Mandarin, but she appeared to have gotten/verified this information from one of the officers at the police department and seemed genuinely happy to discover it.
However, I'm having an awfully difficult time finding any sort of information on this to verify on my own. Is there anyone here who knows about this, or could point me in the direction where I could find this information?
Thank you