It seems inevitable that my 10yr stay in China will abruptly come to an end on September 9 this year.
Last week I heard that my residence visa cannot be extended.
During the last few days I have been drilling into my network for solutions, but during these Olympic times, with regulations tighter than ever before, there seems to be no solution.
OK, I could get a tourist visa and fly back and forth between Hong Kong and Beijing, but what is the point of that? Basically just a waste of money. And officially I cannot even work on a tourist visa.
Another implication of a tourist visa is that when the time comes to move my stuff out of China I cannot do that under “household goods” anymore and I will have to pay export and import tax (yup, over my own bloody stuff!!!). So I’d better choose “eggs for my money”, accept my situation, turn the page, look back at an incredible, amazing and fantastic 10 years of my life and….MOVE ON
Spain, here I come!!!
