Should I just get a student visa?

Posted Mar 31, 2010 6:25pm by Tai-Pan

Joined: Feb 6th, 2007
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My situation:
My job fell through, but I'm going to take a tutoring job to pay the bills. I'm on an L visa, and they told me I needed to arrange either a F or X visa (that's the student one, right?). After calling some agents, it looks like I'll be paying close to 6000 RMB for a F visa. That's expensive.
So I'm thinking, why not just enroll in a Chinese course? Does anyone have any experience doing this? I'm not talking about a fake school for the visa, but a not so full time school for the paper.
I would like to start learning Chinese again, but money is my main concern right now. Which route would be cheaper? I'm guessing a student visa takes a little time as well, and I have just over 2 weeks before my L visa is worthless.

I have plenty of agents' numbers from the board, no need to waste time advertising to me.

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nickywong08

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Re: Should I just get a student visa?

Posted by: nickywong08 on Mar 31, 2010 7:37pm

i have applied a school for my frd, 9700rmb for a whole year, application fee 400. but u gotta go to the class.
pass me your email i can send u more details

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Tai-Pan

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Re: Should I just get a student visa?

Posted by: Tai-Pan on Mar 31, 2010 8:47pm

What's an frd? Was the 9700 your tuition, or did it include your visa? And why would a visa agent need a student visa?

crystal927

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Re: Should I just get a student visa?

Posted by: crystal927 on Apr 1, 2010 1:04pm

you have several choices
1.extend your L visa for three months
2.convert L to F for six months(not very expensive here)
because X visa is not easy for you to get it.
good luck

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ashley_fei

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Re: Should I just get a student visa?

Posted by: ashley_fei on Apr 1, 2010 2:03pm

Talking about X visa,you should enroll in a qualified school or trainning certer, otherwise you can not get X(student visa).Apart from that, there are three options:
1. Extend L visa for three months,at least you can stay here for 3 months and leave enough room for you to find a proper way to do visa.
2. Convert L to F without leaving. It seems that the price for L-F conversion is expensive than L extension, but when you get F visa, you can stay here for 6 months and extend it for another 6 months when it is about to expire, cost for extension is much more cheaper,
3. Apply Bussiness Invitation letter. This option requires you to go out of China to get a new visa with letter. and when you come back with one month F, can extend it for 6 months,

Each options has its advantage, which one is suitable for you depends on your situation.

Hope my suggestions are helpful

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marywu

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Re: Should I just get a student visa?

Posted by: marywu on Apr 1, 2010 4:43pm

Hi,Tai-Pan

One of the necessary conditions of student visa application:
You must have enrolling school's letter such as "Admission Confirmation Letter" .
"Admission Confirmation Letter" by the enrolling school for foreign citizens who have entered China on an L or F visa .
As Chinese laws , if you hold X visa , you must studying in China.
You can try to contact Chinese Training Schools.Good luck~~

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