In response to Re: Work Permits FEC in Chongqing (Chengdu FT)

Chendu FT is quite right on the Chongqing juristiction as it is a special economic area and it enjoys, or abuses, the priviledge of "governing itself" and then it's answerable directly or only to Beijing.

Following up on;

I am not sure if this is 100% accurate, but a Chinese friend was expaining how the chains operate. Generally only one of the schools is full licensed and registered and can arrange visas. So what goes for Meten is probably the same with NDI and WEB.

Your observation is mine as well. Moreover, I'll support this by my very own experience with a company called the "Century Bridge Education" that operates at least a couple of GAC centers and language schools in, both, Guangzhou (Guangdong) and Nanning (Guangxi). There have been some foreign teachers getting their work permits in Nanning rather than Guangzhou before as this company's ownership's permits to hire foreigners on an off frequently EXPIRE. A couple of times, they forced me to work on a two month F..i had little choice then..was with them for 4 years.
Back to WEB, and I am just recalling a foreign academic that has been largely recruiting foreign teachers for WEB schools, this guy under the name Pascal Scot that also was in Chongqing's Web not long ago and advertised for them there, quickly move to Guangdong and advertised there about 6 months later. Another few months later and he is now advertising for Web Urumqi...just to suspect not to shoot :)

Cheers and beers to Residency Permits in the same location you work in as well as cheers and beers to all the authotities involved in that care about the foreign workers as much as they care about the local employers