Do you think your life would be better or worse?
I sometimes think about all the stuff I could do without being controlled or all the stuff I could freely buy.
Everything I've read online, and here, says that this can be done. Baby is registered as Chinese and gets a Chinese hukou. But we also apply for a British passport.
Baby requires a 旅行证 to leave China.
My wife recently asked the local immigration office and they said they don't agree we do this at all. They said if she wants a hukou she must renounce British citizenship. And they said 旅行证 cannot be done in China, only HK.
They also said that if we go along this route they wont process anything immigration related for our baby in the future.
Are they giving us bullshit?
Does the labour bureau require your PGCE to be apostilled and submitted to them for the work permit? Or do they only care about degree, TEFL and criminal record check?
Location: Switzerland.
My dad's Swiss wife died recently. She had a life insurance policy naming my father and I as the sole beneficiaries.
We have already recieved the money.
My dad's wife has an estranged son from a previous marriage. That son is saying he's entitled to 25% of this money and the lawyer is agreeing with him and says we need to transfer him money.
Swiss law says that a son or daughter is entitled to 25% of a dead parents ESTATE, and we have not denied him any of this.
But this insurance money is not estate money. It is money that the insurance company has paid out to the people who are named on the policy. Which is us, not him.
It is my understanding after searching online that insurance payouts are not part of a persons estate.
Our two and a half month baby has started to roll onto her front, but her hands are always in the wrong position and she faceplants the bed and will suffocate if we don't roll her back.
Now she's started to cry if we don't let her roll on to her front.
What suicidal things does yours do?
I've been teaching English in China for 10 years just on a basic TEFL. I'm looking at upgrading my certs to get paid more.
This course came to my attention. The PGCE from Leeds Beckett University. As far as university goes it's cheap (Even cheaper because I'm British), and it's completed within 9 months. Honestly it sounds kinda easy. (10 hours a week).
I understand that PGCE is not QTS, and doing this course will not grant me the ability to teach in UK. But I don't want to do that.
But a PGCE on my CV is a PGCE on my CV isn't it? Is this worth £2890 to get a higher salary in the future?
This is a for your info post so you can anticipate this might happen next time you change jobs.
Well it looks like it's time again. Time to invent another dumb rule to screw laowai.
My work permit has been processing for over a month, now they've come back with "You need to provide a police check from your home country valid within the last 6 months". Even though I have not lived there for 10 years, and have provided a Chinese police check.
This has never been a requirement in the past, as I have changed jobs several times and have not had to do this.
So FYI every time you change jobs in the future, factor in maybe needing to pay for a police check from your home country (not cheap!) and the time it takes to deliver it to China.
It's going to cost me £250 and my new employer refuses to pay for it.
My fathers wife died 2 years ago. (They are both Swiss, I am not) She tolf him when she died which lawyer to seek out and that lawyer would handle everything.
Well that lawyer doesn't seem to be fantastic. For a start he really does not seem to be on our side. My fathers wife had an enstranged son and they both hated eachothers guts. After she died, this son came out of the woodwork for money. And the lawyer seems to be doing everything he can to get him as much money as possible.
My fathers wife said in her will that my father gets 80% of everything and her son gets 20%, which is the minimum legal amount in Swiss law.
First thing this guy did was order an entire audit on the assets. This slamed the brakes on trying to sell a holiday house and made it lose money due to market value lowering. What is ridicuous is now our lawyer says we must pay him 20% of the cost of this audit. When he is the one that wanted it, not us, and we did not agree to do it. Should he not be paying us the missing value of the house due to his audit messing up the sale?
Secondly the lawyer insists that my father needs to pay him rent to live in his own house. My father and his wife lived in that house for decades, while the son did not.
The lawyer is now saying that from the moment my fathers wife died, we need to calculate the monthly rent of the house (even though it's fully paid off) and then pay him 20% of that value.
Thirdly my wifes father took out a life insurance policy. That policy states the payment is to be made to my father and me. And that money was paid out by the insurance company to our bank accounts.
The last insult is now the lawyer is saying we must give her son 20%. His name is not anywhere on the policy.
What is up with this lawyer? Like I said it really seems like he is not on our side. And when we try to meet him in private he calls up the son to also come to the meetings. We are paying him for his services and all he does is fuck us.
I'm one mod away from officially being a typhon.
I press the button on the computer to start the song, the countdown timer comes on. I quickly run into the maintainance hatch to avoid the phantoms and the countdown vanishes.
What gives?
In my experience a work permit can be processed in under 2 weeks, 1 week if they try. Yet they insist 1 month is totally normal. We're still at 受理通过.
It's also T888 so it's likely I'm one of only a handful of permits to process.
It's now 2 weeks until my 30 day stay permit ends and I'm forced to be separated from my wife and newborn child.