Hi Everyone!

My wife and I have been teaching in Shandong Province for 1 year. We came in China with a tourist visa ("L") and after teaching for 6 months they changed it into "Z" visa and it was expired last June 30. Now the next term will start on 15th of Aug. and we were informed by our school that we should go back home and work for our visa in the Chinese Embassy in our country. They only informed us 10 days after our visa was expired and now there's no way going back because without a valid visa would mean an overstaying which entitled us to pay 500 yuan(each person) for each day of staying in this country. We wanna know if this school is deceiving us because from what we know they can extend the visa or if they don't want us anymore, they can get any type of visa right? We're confuse because they signed a contract for the next term and we don't know if this is just a play safe. We are sicker than a dog and can't sleep. We hope you guys will be nicer to help out.

goodteachers2005@wondering.com