7 June 2011

Its always best to enter on a Z visa if you need one of course. Again, I see these visas being issued frequently on a routine and regular basis and I don't see people leaving for HK or anywhere else for that matter. Several of our techs have Z visas issued in Beijing, some of our R&D people have them, etc. We have several ex-teachers working here and some of them had Z transfers and some of them went from F to Z, all in Beijing and all through immigration exit and entry bureau and they did not need to leave China. Being on a green card myself I don't pay much attention to the visa game anymore other than to listen to the discussion at the cafe or the water cooler. But when I ask people if they had to leave China's mainland, the answer is normally, no.