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Even after it's been posted twice, I'm still confused by this question.3
I agree with chengdude's confusion and his answer. If you can't get your current (or new) employer to take care of getting a new Residence Permit for you, you'll either have to leave China, get an L tourist visa and return, or you'll have to use a visa agent in a major city like Beijing or Shanghai to take your passport and get the L (or F) visa while you hang around in China. The latter option will cost an agents fee on top of the regular official visa fee--price depends on your passport and the exact type/length/# entries you need. Those are your only options other than overstay (which I don't recommend).4
Your Z visa only grants entry to China, it doesnt grant residence status and it expires 30 days after you arrive. Only your employer can obtain the residence permit by undergoing the residence formalities which often include a supplemental health exam from you. If transferring employment, in 99% of situations the new PSB needs a signed letter by you previous employer that illustrates you completed the job in good terms..
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Ah time for some clarification. Here we go:Global donkey
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OK, now this situation makes more sense. It sounds like you want to leave the area (but not China) for the holidays--which I assume is for a couple of months or so--and somewhere in the middle of this time period your residence permit expires. Normally, the PSB issues new residence permits for foreigners within the month before the expiration date of the previous permit. Is this the reason they say they will not renew it now, that it is "too early"? Has your employer/development organization tried REALLY hard to get them to move up the date? Or do they also refuse to push the system--keep in mind your employer may not want to draw down from their PSB favor bank for something like this. I've had to get an earlier-than-normal permit on one occasion in the past, and ended up with a new residence permit good for 14 months instead of a year from some magnanimous visa official in Beijing :-). But the various PSB locations differ in how much to use their discretionary authority, sounds like you may be stuck with a hard-ass bunch. If you don't want to leave China and don't want to use a visa agent to get you a "bridge" tourist visa while you stay in-country, the only thing I can suggest is to reorganize your holiday plans to come back to your work location for a week at the appropriate time to get this done, and then resume your holiday. The Chinese bureaucracy isn't particularly amenable or sympathetic to bending their procedures to meet the personal holiday needs of foreigners (or Chinese for that matter!)7
Agreed; if your local PSB, your employer and your sponsoring organization can't or won't do anything for you (bending the rules, basically), you are SOL. Best to break up your holiday, go back and deal with it.8
Yeah, you don't wanna mess with your existing Z visa by getting a tourist visa added.. Better to deal with it as somone preciously said. Otherwise, in most cases they cannot convert a L visa to residence status.
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