As a visa agent, I deal with different cases and contact with different foreigners every day. I've been in this business for a year and a half, and I've handled hundreds of cases so far. At the time, I only approached the company because I was interested. I dealt with too many cases that impressed me and met too many foreigners that impressed me. My first client was the one that moved me the most.
He is a Filipino who meets the requirements of work visa: bachelor's degree, more than 2 years relevant work experience, no criminal record. Before I took over the case, his company had declared for him several times. Obviously, each time it failed. Therefore, the company contacted us, and after our processing, he successfully got the work permit notice. I clearly remember that before the Spring Festival last year, I informed him to apply for the Z visa at the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines. One day after the Spring Festival, he told me that he had got the Z visa, but was detained by POEA. POEA requires his company to do the registration for him. He also found an agent in the Philippines to help him deal with this trouble. After looking it up, I knew that POEA is the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration. So I began to contact the agent and POEA for him.
I think one of the best examples to explain what is POEA to register, this is in Taobao shopping: Chinese companies submit orders to POEA, the order is hired his work in China, after payment, Chinese companies need to bring the POEA files to the Shenzhen Notary Office to do notarization, and then certified at the Philippine embassy or consulate, after the POEA approved, he can come to work in China, but we did not go well. The documents of POEA are not accepted by the Shenzhen Notary Office, which means we cannot go to the embassy or consulate for authentication.
I began to send frequent emails to confirm with the agent in the Philippines: Are these documents really useful? Have any Filipinos ever successfully certified it? Her answer was yes, which devastated me. Yes, some people do, but why can't we? I have consulted the Shenzhen Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs and the Philippine Consulate General in Guangzhou, but the problem has not been solved finally. The frustration of this failure made me wonder what the Philippine agents were talking about. I asked her: I consulted the Shenzhen Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs, and they all said they had not heard of such a situation. In the past, Filipinos were able to obtain work visas. Philippine agents explained that Filipinos do not need POEA's approval to work overseas until 2018. Since too many people travel abroad on tourist visas, they will not return to the Philippines to work, so POEA requires that from 2018, all people working abroad must apply to them for registration.
POEA's intervention made the company that hired him to feel too complicated, and after communication with him, the two sides decided to terminate the labor relationship. I'm so pity, because I know he's dying to work in China...
A month later, he suddenly contacted me and told me that he had come to China. He flew from the Philippines to Singapore, from Singapore to Hong Kong, and finally to Shenzhen. He said he got a one-year visa and asked me to help him apply for a work visa after he found a new job. I'm very excited, he didn't come here easily. However, I am still annoyed. If I had checked his visa, the latter might not have happened.
And two months later, I was told by the HR of his new company that he needed to apply for a work visa. I asked him to show me his current visa to see how long it was valid. I saw that this is the Z visa he applied for before, not a one-year visa at all. He's more than 70 days overdue. I wonder, why is he so unlucky? At that time, I gave the company the only solution: go to the Public Security Bureau to accept the punishment, then go to the Exit-Entry Bureau to apply for stay visa, and go abroad to apply for a new visa finally. He said he could not return to the Philippines, perhaps because he had a hunch that it would not be easy for him to return. After communicating with his company, I decided to let him try to apply for a business visa in HK. He went to HK to file his papers and waited a day for a reply. He was turned down and had to return to the Philippines to apply for a new visa. I could understand how he felt, after all, it was so hard for me, let alone him...
When he returned to the Philippines, he resubmitted his visa application to the Chinese embassy in the Philippines. The result was the same, he was rejected and had to wait six months before submitting a new application. After this failure, he was like a loser, confided to me like a friend: Nina, you know, if I can't go to China, I'm going to lose this job. I can't lose it, I need money, I need to raise my daughter. If not, the government will take away my daughter's custody, I can't losing custody,' he kept repeating, as if to himself.
I knew that he was a single father when I started following up on his case, who had raised his daughter alone since she was born. He told me that she was his lover and his most precious treasure and that he would pick her up after finding a stable job in China. That's why he has such a strong desire to work in China, which can give him the chance to develop his career, earn money and be able to raise his daughter. Actually, I greatly admire him. The above-mentioned HR told me that he looks very fierce, but he always gives his daughter the gentlest care. I admire the many difficulties he has gone through, but he still has great expectations for China and is ambitious and passionate about his work. Now, the embassy's 6 months visa ban has been lifted and he is ready to come back to China to seek a career opportunity, a chance to make a good living for him and his daughter. And I'm still in touch with him, hoping to find another way for him to work legally in China.
He went through so many difficulties because his compatriots did not hold legal visas to work abroad, leading the local government to issue policies restricting working abroad. As we all know, more and more foreigners are coming to China to work. What I want to say is that no matter in which country, even if only a small number of people do something illegal, it may affect your compatriots' ability to study, work or live in that place smoothly. In other countries, everyone represents not only yourself but also your country. Wherever you are, being legal and abiding by the law is the most important thing!
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