Good luck

You paid someone without or before looking at the valid until date on the visa?
You have to go to that visa place or the police station yourself. Look at another post today about a late visa- late fines run about 5000 rmb depending on how many days it is overdue, the longer you wait the more you pay.

You have to exit China customs before going to a another country, they will see you don't have a valid visa at the airport or train station and give you the Go to Jail card then and there.
When you leave China you have to fill out a little yellow departure card with the visa number and the expire date. NO WAY AROUND THAT, ASIDE FROM A BLIND CUSTOMS GUARD!

ps if you go to your embassey dont bring passport say they took it. also you can say you were robbed in the country you are in.never even saying you were in china.this one has definately worked before. with U.S.

He is a Black guy from Africa not the USA. They would be scared to mess with a US citizen to some degree, but an African? He'd stick out like a sore thumb trying to cross border with or without the visa.

Drugs come into China from Burma the same way they come in to the USA from Mexico, up someones rear end, or in an 18 wheel truck filled with boxes of produce items. Besides, if an African gets caught sneeking out, they are going to assume he is doing something illegal and tack that onto his jail sentence.

When you head to the police station be prepared to be deported (or even jailed) ASAP!

Also if you claim you lost your passport 2 years ago they can and will look up your old passport and see that no visa number has been registered to it since 2007, you are gonna get f***ed either way. The more shadey he looks the worse it is going to be.

Hard choice, go back to Africa or stay here in China and let Booby CUMM on your Back?

Go to Africa!

well now he will have to say he has been abducted for 2 yrs.
this is to his embassey. they really dont care about visa from other country. they just look after there own so just say you got robbed. true story someone made it to s.america from US .without a passport, ran out of money needed to get home went to police.they were going to jail him but took him to US embassey. they gave him a ticket home. said he was robbed and had been tring to get to the embassey for days, so UFC you dont know what your talking about . africa get across the border and get to your embassy.have money for plane ticket Unless they are same as US

No they won't buy you a ticket home. Embassies do sh*t all for you. They don't care how miserable your situation is, they don't care.

Actually, pretty much the whole Burmese border is open and unguarded except at the official border-crossings. Not so stupid as it sounds. The people in the border regions often live in Burma while working in China and cross the nonexistent border daily..Only problem is that since there is so much drugs comming IN to China there´s rather a lot of checking done if you´d, say, come by bus from Ruili to Kunming. Been into Burmese villages a couple of times that way but it is not exactly close to the capital and there´s the warlords etc...but at least you´d have an interesting time, pick up some quality Jade and make some new friends. Beats the airport-jail at terminal three I´m sure. Again; Good luck!

My arithmetic is not working so well this morning, I just can't quite get a handle on how, if you were waiting for the so called agent's friend for ONE year why is your visa now TWO years expired.

Usually expired visa or overstay is NOT a big problem, as long as you have the cash to pay the fine and it does not effect your returning, but honestly, this story seems like someone is not being quite straight up or has a hidden agenda.

I just took care of my visa problem.

I didn't overstay as long as you, but...

I would just like to share my experience, and hope someone will find it useful.

First off, going to your embassy is probably useless. I went to the U.S. embassy. The Chinese lady working there was nice, and seemed a little concerned about my story. She said that the embassy would help me with paying a fine if I really needed it. She also basically just told me all the stuff I already knew, and said good luck. A day later, I went back for some advice, and the fat American guy just told me, "get the money from friends or family, get the plane ticket, and get out as soon as possible." "everything is your fault".

Yeah, I admitted that I was partially at fault.

Now as far as the PSB. I told them my sitch. They really didn't care. They just wanted some money. I said I am not sure if I had the money. One lady replied, " ni you duo xiao qian". So, obviously, like all of China, they just cared about the money. They said pay the five thousand or go to jail.

This is the only opportunity for a Chinese to talk to am American or treat an American like this, so they used the opportunity. Obviously, I cannot act like a jerk.

So, I paid the fine after they made me sit in a room for a few hours. They said they then can give me a 30 day extension, if I paid the 5000. I then went to the clerk, and she said she can give me only 10 days. I told her that the guy just said 30 days. Of course this is like everything in China. Everyone just says what they want. No organization. I then told the guy this. "you have no organization, and you just want to make money".

She said she can give me the extension, but I needed a few things first. I guess I won't go into details about this, but it is ridiculous. I told them I just want to get out of here.

The thing that is most ridiculous is that they take 8 days to process the visa, but I have 10 days to leave, so I have only 2 possible days to buy a ticket. Fortunately, I found one, but I ended up paying more money to switch the date, because they weren't clear in telling me that they take 8 days to process it.

Anyway, as long as you have some money you can do it. But be prepared for a long process and a lot of stress. I literally spent all week to solve this. It was like a full time job.

Ok, so good luck.

Don't give up. I actually felt like it, too. But I realized that, besides death, it can't get any worse. Things can only get better after you go home.

By the way, I'd be very doubtful that any agent could help you out of this situation - if someone's offering to, they're probably just going to do the same thing that the earlier agent did. Don't be a sucker. They are almost certainly trying to cheat you. I wouldn't try to fight city hall on this one. Just organise your business and personal affairs first, liquidate anything of value you own here, send your money home and then present yourself to the authorities.

I'm not sure I'm buying this story. The first time you mention the agent it was a he. He switches to she for the rest of the narrative. Might be a typo, of course, or maybe just another internet troll.

Now let's look at the time line. Your visa expired in August of 2007. OK - now we'll figure that you knew your visa was going to expire and handed your passport to the "agent" in, say, July of 2007 for a one year visa. A one year visa would have you staying in China, legally, until August of 2008...seven months ago. Hmm. So how does that work? Nineteen months go by from the time you gave your passport to the agent and the time he or she gave it back? How does someone get strung along for nineteen months? How did you live in China without your passport? You say you do business here - did you ever try to stay in a hotel while on a business trip? You need to have your passport to do so.

Sorry - your story sounds fake.

people post here to get help, advice and sugestions
if you dont have any of these to give him or her, there is no need to write stupid things back to the poster

I buy most of the story, but it seems like he is looking to blame others for his mistakes, and I am sure he was doing something illegal or hiding from someone else at home.

The only business you don’t want to have a passport for is a business on the sidewalk of Sunlitan.