he PSB has 2 forms for you. One is called 'Accommodation Registration Form For Foreign Nationals' The other is called 'VISA/STAY PERMIT/RESIDENCE PERMIT APPLICATION FORM.

The PSB will get round to checking your address to ensure that you and your wife are in fact both living there. If you change address, they will check again.

The first form is for your local police station to complete. When that is done, you take that completed and stamped form along with the other form to the PSB. Originals and photocopies of various documentation belonging to you and to your wife will need to be submitted along with your application.

And last but not least, your wife will need to write a note informing the PSB that she wishes you to stay with her. So make sure she is on good terms with you!

What you say has a ring of truth about it which is more than can be said for other advice I'm getting from the Chinese. I do believe one thing that has been suggested by the Chinese "the local police want to push me away because they don't want the responsibility" They wish, so they have told me that I should apply in the main city to which where I am is a prefecture. Although the main city is where i want to end up it would be costly to apply there at the moment. It could also be risky as my wife suggests we tell PSB that her relative is our landlady. So I am glad you have warned me that the PSB could check that out unannounced. There's absolutely nothing on the Internet to tell me if I can move to a different location(the main city) But I will accept what you have informed me, whilst not blaming you if things go wrong.. I think you know what you are talking about. I will get wife to write that letter saying she won't leave me until the money runs out. The local police although they tell me I have a temporary residence permit won't let me see it. They said there were only two copies; one for them and one for another police station in a bigger town, Many thanks again.