Entries from Shanghaiist tagged with 'visas'
June 5, 2008
Someone once said 'an unjust law is no law at all,' but perhaps a more accurate rephrasing would read 'an unenforced law is no law at all.' This has largely been our experience, at least, when it comes to navigating our way through the complicated legal terrain of the PRC. No approved foreign media outlets, but a hundred (illegal) satellite dishes on every apartment complex (and hotel for that matter). Only a handful of state-sanctioned......
Continue Reading "Feeling the heat"March 9, 2008
A few weeks ago, Richard Brubaker of All Roads Lead to China reported:I just received an email from a friend who said that they were being told they could not renew their F visa fro within China anymore. A quick Skype to another confirmed that F visas cannot be extended past the Olympics. That apparently is not the case, but the cost of an F visa has gone up quite a bit. In Richard's latest......
Continue Reading "China tightening F visa applications?"