Duckling
- 2010-04-20
It's good to read something from someone who actually understands the situation on the ground re teaching in China. I've experienced the same things you have during my few years as a foreign teacher of English in China. I've also been teaching without an RP for a week or two in the past. There is nothing to worry about doing so. After all, if immigration gets involved, your employer will have much more to lose than you. So, he'll make sure that won't happen.
There's no substitute for experience, and those immersed in the Chinese education system at present have more up-to-date knowledge to impart than commentators far afield who give befuddled advice!
Cageygirl
- 2010-04-20
Practically, it means that if you come by a Z visa you have to do the paperwork first like getting your residence permit and your Foreign Expert Cert....
You can't get your residence permit and your FEC. Your employer dose that, FEC first, and then RP, by the way!
Most public schools follow the legal procedure anyway in this respect, there are only some bosses of crappy private training centres who do this kind of illegal thing, I guess.
You guess wrong! It's common practice for Chinese employers to take their time getting a new FT his (or her) RP. In the meantime, they can ask your students if they like your teaching. If not, you can be let go without an employer having wasted his time and money obtaining an RP for you.
Besides, FAO's usually wait until all of the FT's have arrived at the start of a new semester before going to the PSB to get the RP's - they can save time by only paying a single visit to the local PSB office to obtain RP's for all of the FT's!