Police Check or Criminal Background Check for China Z Visa?

Hello Bix8 and welcome to Expat.com

Hope that somebody will be able to inform you about that.

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Kenjee
Expat.com Team

Yeah now everyone going to work In China is required to get a criminal clearance certificate,  we'll I'm not sure how things work in the US but, in South Africa,  all I had to do was,  go to my local police station,  told them what I needed,  they took my finger prints and send through the application,  within 3 weeks I got my clearance certificate

Thanks Ayden1 for your answer. It looks like it could be a bit more of a headache for U.S. citizens, depending on the province I end up working in.

For anyone else wondering about this, chinajoblist.com/visas-and-red-tape/ has step by step information for getting the police check (for U.S. citizens), and about which provinces require what.

Bix8: I have taught and coached basketball in Canada, the US, Europe and more recently in china.  When in the west, I was subjected to background checks.  Any position you do working with kids requires it....China did not use to be that way but I believe they have had more than their share of undesirables coming in so now they are very cautious.....can you blame them???

As far as I am aware it is only in Shenzhen.  However it may spread across the courntry. My police letter had to be verified by the Irish government in Ireland and then taken by hand(I posted it and they sent it back to me) to the Chinese Embassy in Ireland to be authorised and stamped. A real pain in the ass, and the Chinese Embassy took 4 weeks to stamp it and it had to be collected in person; they refused to post it.