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'We were treated like prisoners' - Young SA teacher jailed in China tells of ordeal
2018-12-22
[News24] A South African teenager who was detained in China says she'll never leave the country to work overseas again after her month-long detention.

Tristan-Lee Niemand, 19, spoke to News24 about her ordeal shortly after landing at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday.

She opened up about how she found herself detained after working as a teacher in Nanjing, China, for three weeks.

Niemand and six other South Africans working as teachers in Nanjing were detained after it emerged that they didn’t have the proper work permits to teach in the country. They only had student visas and they were promised to be provided with work permits by the school that employed them.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  China is stricter on immigration stuff than the USA. Here, you can work as a student, but you need to get permission from the school, and have special paperwork. Also, if you do have a work permit (about the size of a US drivers license), it contains a QR code that specifies where you can work, with a specific address. If you are found working at a different address, various sorts of spanking will ensue. I've met English teachers(with valid work permits for one address) that have been naughty and detained for 4-12 hours after being caught working at a different address than allowed, then usually fined and let go.

Working with no proper work permit at all in a foreign country is just asking for trouble. I think that is how is should be. It's rife in China, many college students (M-F) get tempted into Sat/Sun jobs at training centers, because all college kids need a little cash, here or there.

(from Chongqing, China)
Posted by: Beau   2018-12-22 21:43  

#3  Better find a good plan B country to plan A South Africa. Just sayin’,
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2018-12-22 20:14  

#2  Working while on a student visa? We would have arrested them, too.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-12-22 17:10  

#1  News flash. You were a prisoner.
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-12-22 12:14  

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