I will keep this post short and to the point as no doubt the pro Enfly mob will chip in later.

I have been in China three years, well this is the start of my fourth teaching year. As I like Chengdu I applied with Enfly in July this year. Now at first they were very responsive and very keen for me to get over there. I was in Wuhan at the time so it was not really that far.

I have and always have had resident permits. Now, most schools, universities and even training centres (sorry not my cup of tea) will jump at the chance to employ someone who is in China with existing paperwork as the consequent work that needs to be done is far simpler and much less. This is where Enfly began to show their true colours. Once I mentioned this, they seem to have several 'syntax error' moments and became very evasive when I started asking about what documents they need from my past school to transfer my resident permit.

Forward a little and this is what they wanted me to do, come to Chengdu and 'use up the last days on my RP then we will send you to Hong Kong and we will get you an X2 Student visa which is for 6 months'. When I said no way, this was their reply 'it is easier and cheaper for you and you have more freedom on it'. I politely told them to keep their X2 visa and dropped them like a ton of bricks.

I am now in Chengdu at a Government High School who employ directly so this clearly contradicts what 'Joshua' said. There are six of us at this school and we all are direct hires.

If anyone at Enfly wishes to rebuff what I have said I would happily provide the email correspondence with their 'HR'.

I firmly believe Enfly do not want people on resident permits because they do not have a licence to legally employ foreigners.