Hello,

If anyone can spare me a moment to help me out, that would be great...

My problem is that my American company wants to send me to their Shanghai office. It's a small start up company with only 45 people roughly, so they don't know how to handle this very well.

Originally I was planning on staying there for a couple of years, so I wanted to apply for a Z-Visa, but that's way too complicated.

What would be a lot less painful would be to apply for a F-Visa, and then head over there for as long as the Visa lasted, then renew it every time it is necessary. I think you can get a multiple 6-month F visa, so therefore I would be able to stay in the country for at least 6 months before having to leave and get a new F-Visa. (Is that correct?)

Is it possible to stay in China to do business development for my American company with just using an F-Visa? Or does that fall into the Z-Visa category?

Will it work this way? I heard it was possible to get a 2-year F Visa after getting a couple of F-VISA’s, and I just want to make sure I’m doing taking this the right way.