Stupid policies that are shooting themselves in the foot. They want to go after the non native speakers without a degree from a western country , doesn't really bother me, but then who will teach their kids, certainly not older white blokes.

Then they want to make it harder for the native speakers with genuine degrees, all because some white guys thought it would be great to use fake degrees to land teaching jobs, again why not do a background check in country, fingerprint, retina scan, and then demand copy of transcripts from uni, and perhaps email the uni registrar....too much like hard work for the racist,useless staff in entry-exit.

You know your onions, that's for sure! I think what you've said makes a lot of sense. Transcripts, or their photocopies, are preferable to original degree documents, or photocopies thereof.

Re the new university degree verification system, this might interest you. My degree is a parchment from Edinburgh University, written entirely in LATIN! It's in the form of a scroll with a wax stamp. It has a signature also. The scroll has watermarks that are only visible to the naked eye if you shine a bright light on the parchment. The watermarks are elliptical stamps bearing the words' University of Edinburgh'. I'd think a Notary Public who knew Latin would stamp the parchment as genuine, though a photocopy might not be accepted, as watermarks wouldn't be on it. However, the Chinese Embassy might not accept a photocopy either, as their staff wouldn't know any Latin, and there wouldn't be any watermarks on it! They might even conclude that I had graduated from a Roman university!