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Asked by Julie | Jan. 12, 2020 09:09
About:Overstaying in China & Penalty

Unintentionally overstaying?

The problem is that I was working on a training center, everything was ok until one day another teacher was arrested because apparently our boss send him to another place to work. Police officers interogate all the teachers including me and investigated the company. Just few days after this incident, I had to send my passport to the PSB in order to renew my resident permit. They told me to came back on november (3 weeks later) but when I did, they didn't gave me back my passport, they just told me to wait (I suppoused because they were investigating me as well). Almost 2 months later, they found out me and other teachers had nothing to do wit it and gave us back our passports but this time they didn't give me the resident permit, they just give me an exit visa T 停留 and told me that I have 10 days to leave the country, they never arrested me, made me pay a fine or even told me that I can't came back to China. The problem is that in this 2 months my old resident permit expired and this new temporary resident permit goes on effect from January 7 untill January 17, it means there is a space of almost 2 months in my passport that migration officers will consider as I had overstayed even though it wasn't my fault because THEY had my passport. So, what should I do now? Will I ever be able to came back to China? I guess I need an evidence that I did went to the Psb to renew my residence permit but all I had is a photo of the ticket that they gave me to pick up the new resident permit on november.

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Answered by John Doe | Jan. 12, 2020 19:36
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Sounds like you are one of the many that got caught up in the "strike hard" campaign against allegedly unlawful behaviors by foreign nationals on work visas last year. You did NOT overstay but in this case the officials refused to renew your residence permit. If you overstayed, then you will at least be forced to pay a fine. Unfortunately this decision effectively means you must leave the country before Jan 17 or it WILL become an overstay with possible detention or fines.

My condolences for your experiences, but last year was a rough year for many innocent people who got caught up and forced to leave everything behind. Rest assured you are not alone in this case and haven't done anything wrong, although it would not be easy for you to visit China in the near future (if, after all this, you still want to).
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