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2018-12-22 China-Japan-Koreas

'We were treated like prisoners' - Young SA teacher jailed in China tells of ordeal

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-22 08:05|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 News flash. You were a prisoner.

Posted by ed in texas 2018-12-22 12:14|| 2018-12-22 12:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Working while on a student visa? We would have arrested them, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-22 17:10|| 2018-12-22 17:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Better find a good plan B country to plan A South Africa. Just sayin’,

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-12-22 20:14|| 2018-12-22 20:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-12-22 21:43|| Front Page Top

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