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Hello everyone! How are you guys? I've been doing well. It's been 17 months since I was settled in America. I've been working for Tulsa Public School also over one year now. I feel I'm stronger and tougher. I drive better too. So I'm trying to move up but it's very difficult to get a position at a university. Some one told me that to work for an airport as a stewardess, I'll enjoy free tickets to travel all over the world, and that I can go back to China very easily. The payment is pretty good. I like to know your ideas about working as a stewardess. Is the challenge too much for me? I can't find the "Job column" so I am here at "asking a woman". But I'm asking American guys for help. thank you every one! Best wishes! Catherine
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(Sorry admins, if I am not posting this under a proper discussion groups, please help to correct it if necessary) My situation: I am currently on Z-visa. However, it looks like after I quit my job, I still need a month or two in China to wrap up everything before I leave China. My concern: I heard that once you quit your job, your sponsor company will cancel your visa (which is directly linked with the residence permit). I did my homework before I post this topic. I read that although your work visa will be canceled as long as you have residence permit with you, you are still legally staying in the country ? Some say, once the work visa is canceled, your sponsor company would also ask you to go to local PSB to cancel your residence permit? 1. Whatever cancellation I might have to go through (work visa and residence permit), how much time do I actually have to leave the country without going to through any hassle ? I read 72 hours ? Is this true? 2. I also read that just to be in safe side, once the RP and WP gets canceled, I can changes from Z to L (Tourist visa) as a temporary option. I read somewhere this is only possible for 7 days - L visa??!! But some also mentioned that it is possible for regular 30 days - L visa ? What if I still need to extend this 30 days as well, possible ? 3. Lastly, what documents MUST I get from China - PSB / Sponser company /Banks / Medical insurance / Tax bureau / Hospitals etc before I leave the country. I do not have any plans to come back but just in case..if I need them abroad or for some reason coming back. Please share your valuable thoughts and suggestion. Thank you very much in advance!
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I have been saving up my money here doing a lot of part time jobs at night and on the weekends. By the time I leave China this summer, I should have around 35-40K saved up. All of my money is deposited into my Chinese bank account. I am not sure how I should transfer my money back to the United States. Should I use Paypal? Western Union? Bank wire transfer? I feel like they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Another option could be to leave a large portion on my money in my Chinese bank account. The Chinese Yuan has been appreciating, and I believe it will continue to do so. When I return to the United States, I will be student teaching and finishing my masters degree. This is a huge time commitment, and will not allow me to earn a lot of money during this time. I am not sure what my wife will do for work during this time. What kind of work have other people's Chinese wives found? My biggest problem is that I have a massive amounts of student debt. How much of it should I pay off? I enrolled in the income based repayment program, so at this time my payments are really low. I know debt is terrible, but I am not sure if I should use all of my money towards this. I would love to save up for a house sometime within the next five years. Any advice for me would be greatly appreciated.
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Greetings everyone! Long time no see! This is slightly off topic from the usual immigration questions for loved ones. I ask because I have found this forum to be incredibly knowledgable. I spent quite a bit of time on here previously for a loved one. I come back to you with some questions, for a friend that approached me because they knew I was somewhat familiar in dealing with USCIS. Issue Begins: My friend lives in Chongqing China, they are a kindergarten teacher. They were recently granted a 10 year multiple entry B1 visa to attend a couple meetings / conferences conducted by a charter school in NJ. These meetings are specifically geared towards early childhood language education. Their english is very good, and because so they were approached by the school asking if they would would like to work in a training / assistant position teaching Chinese to the kindergarten class in the school. The program would last 21 months, and they would compensate with some money/housing, the charter school will petition for a h3 visa, and the program would start shortly after the meetings (beginning this school year). So for the problem of time, they would enter under a B1 visa, and within 3/4 months change to a H3visa. It seems pretty straightforward but I wanted to ask a couple clarifying questions. Questions 1. I read that current wait times for H3 is up to 3 months. So if I'm correct the duration of stay under B1 is determined at point of entry for maximum 6 months or less. So if the agent grants 30 days, can they stay after the original 30 days while waiting for the H3 petition in USCIS's channels? 2. Is this difficult? 3. Could it ultimately harm the B1 visa? I apologize for various grammatical errors. I am trying to jot this in between doing some work haha. Any advice/suggestions welcomed.
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Hi guys, I know this is kind of specific to the individual, but I'm wondering if anyone might be able to share what their (or their fiance's) experience was with finding work once they received a green card. My fiance has a bachelor's degree, and a couple years experience working for a foreign trade company in China. We plan to move to the San Francisco area after the summer. We don't really know what to expect in terms of her prospects for finding work. Her English level is great, but not spot-on perfect. Anyone who could share their experience or even take a wild guess about the job market for someone like my fiance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Hello, I'm Rita with MMC Group in Dallas. I know people that use this site often and they have suggested that someone here may be interested in this position. It's a part time call center position from 3:30pm - 7:30pm Monday through Friday. The pay is $12.26 / hour and they are looking specifically for someone who is fluent in both English and Mandarin and/or Cantonese. The details of the job are below. If you or someone you know would be interested, please email your resume to rlaura@mmcgrp.com. Thank you so much. Customer Service RepresentativePart Time Hours ONLYPay Rate: $12.26 an hourShift: 3:30 PM-7:30 PMBilingual in Mandarin / Cantonese JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:1.Check referrals received from the client for completeness and accuracy2. Complete transaction that will create an arrival date/stamp record3.Date/time stamp referral documents and number them consecutively beginning with #1 each day4. Use the primes system as the operating encounter system for arrival records to be transmitted as a monthly report to OTDA5. Verify client identification by accessing the client photo and signature via the CBIC’s administrative workstation and key in referral number and associated client number (CIN)6.Distribute cards, protective sleeves and card carriers7. Compare photo on card with the person receiving the card and sign referral document and have client sign the referral document prior to issuing the card8. Refer client to the PIN Selection Station to select or change PIN9. Properly clarify defective cards and cards created but not picked up by the client10. Maintains positive relationships with HRA staff, co-workers, and clients11. Raises issues of concern and/or problems to the Site Supervisor12. Meets all standards established for this position as outlined in the attached performance criteria
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Hello everyone! This is Catherine asking for help again. I'm not sure if "Classfields" is the right place for me to turn to but I do need some tips for writing a decent resume. I've never submitted any resumes and I've never looked for a job in China. I'm not so sure with the modern criteria for submitting resume online. I've worked for almost 30 years in China. So my resume may have to take more than one page. I know you guys have ever helped your Chinese wife with the resume stuff online. I think you may have some good ideas that I was kept in dark. Please take some time and type some tips for me here. I'd appreciate a lot! Have a good evening, everyone!
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This question has always been on my mind. I met so many Chinese women who held professional jobs in China, who were well educated and spoke good English, couldn't find equivalent jobs in the US. Why? You have to tell me your reason. For me, I didn't have the confidence. I had trouble understand fast American English; I had trouble communicating to American, How would I work in a local company that requires communication? That was my greatest doubt for myself. So how do we picked up our confidence again? Is there a pathway for Chinese ladies to adjust, learn and prepare themselves for a professional job in the US? That was also my question? I like to hear your thoughts too - what do you do, when you lost all your confidence? - what do you do, when you became a completely foreigner in a strange country? I started a quest to find that pathway for Chinese women. I would like to share my findings along the way. Everyone, please chime in. Have you tried a Immigrant Job Replacement Agency? 1. They match entry level jobs for all immigrants coming from different countries. 2. You need a green card, and driver license. 3. Their career consultant might speaks English. These consultant were once immigrants themselves. 4. Are you willing to lower your expectations? Say work in a Casio for $12 per hour? 5. They also offer training for small business owners. A lot of their women business owners do trading with their home countries. I went to one in Philadelphia and interviewed them. Here's the details : English Version: http://en.youmayus.org/NewsShow.asp?id=400 Chinese version: http://www.youmayus.org/NewsShow.asp?id=384 -
We've been back in the US about a month now, and the transition is going about as well as we could expect. The one difficulty is that my wife hasn't found a job yet. She's feeling pretty stressed about that, even though we both know that it can take a little while to find something, especially right after moving to a foreign country. She's got good work experience (worked at a Fortune 500 company company and a highly regarded education joint venture in China) and a master's degree, so I'm sure she'll eventually find something she likes here. I wanted to ask what your better half found most helpful for finding a job? What did you do to help her?
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Hi, everyone, my husband and i met in Shenyang where we spent almost six yeats together since we were in love. Now we are working on my visa, its in the process. i might be able to immigrante to the US at the end of the year. i worry about job a lot. i have a banchlor degree for English in china. i have been teaching english privately by myself since 2012. i guess there won't be a lot of job choices for me when i go to the US. my english is ok, i guess i can get around with it. so i wonder if anyone can tell me the following question s? 1.How can i become a chinese teacher in public or private school? what are the requirements? 2. How can i get a teacher license? 3.is chinese a desirable language to learn? How will the private tutoring go? 4. What else can i work as when my only skill is speaking chinses? Can anyone tell me your working experience in the US,please????
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Hello guys! Hello Joecy! Ruby! How is everyone doing? Our national holiday is coming. Now I need to catch some Zs because I’ve been as busy as a mosquito in a colony of nudists. l In addition to teaching at school and learning American idioms at home, I was helping a friend whose father’s stomach was removed. He’d had Big C. It’s Chinese way that the cancer patient should be kept in the dark. So I never let the cat out of the bag. The surgery was done very well but the family had to take care of the patient at hospital after the operation, though none of us was trained. We are too wet behind the ears. I was at hospital helping her take care of her father. Once we let her father sleep without giving him any blanket to cover him. He was naked to the waist with only the bandage on the chest. We also thought he might feel too hot so we blew him with an electric fan. To my guilt, the next day the poor old man was having a high fever. This accident again pushes me determined to be a certified nursing assistant after I move to America. I’m often hyped up with my helpful nature, even go bananas but an American woman used to tell me that a CNA is degraded by people, that I might be judged a dirtball. I know I may have to wipe someone’s bottom as a CNA. When it comes to my future career I also know I have to play by ear. Now I like to hear your opinion toward the social position of being a CNA? What is the general statement to a CNA please? Money never grows on trees. I’m not asking about income from an CNA. Have a good day everyone! I miss you all!!
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New China Visa Allowing Foreign Spouse to WORK?
Magnus1977 posted a topic in The Middle Kingdom - 中国
Just got finished with an interview for a teaching position in China. My wife is Shanghainese. The recruiter (American) said something about a new VISA in China that allows Chinese citizen's spouse and children to get a visa to go to China AND WORK! Is this true? Have you heard this before? To go to China and live with my children and my wife, we could get a new visa that allows me to work and isn't dependent on me having a job...? Nice. not sure if it's true though... Please inform. -
Hey all, Greetings from China! Well.....I decided to move to China so we could be together until a decision is made in our case by USCIS. I was told by them that it could take anywhere from 6 months - a year or longer. I arrived here on September 9th. I tried teaching at 2 different schools after arriving here, but it didn't go well. Luckily, I did find a radio station in Beijing that employs foreigners (China Radio International). My B.A. degree is in Broadcastiing. I had a job interview Friday and was offered a position. Anyway...as some of you know, I am a felon. I have to apply for a Z visa in order to work for CRI. I have to submit a background check with the visa application. Obviously, my concern is that I will not get it because I am a felon. The offense happened almost 9 years ago and it was neither violent nor drug related. My wife found somewhere on the internet that if the applicant has a criminal record then they will not be issued a Z visa, but my research indicated that a criminal history does not necessarily disqualify someone from getting a Z visa and that it depends on the nature of the offense. Does anyone know if it is still possible for me to get the visa, or know of someone I can contact and ask them? Thanks William
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An article from the Global Times that may be of interest to some, providing a fairly realistic look at the job situation for foreigners in China.
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Don't think Americans are losers when they come to China for work... read on: Discouraged Americans leave labor force
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I hope to get an endless residence permit that allows me to stay and work in China when my contract ends at my current work. I already have with my Z visa and residence permit at my current job. I got married in December and I'm living and working in China. I would like my residence permit to not depend on my current job and allow me to change jobs without affecting my working residence permit. Any input?
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Hi, Hope all is well with you all. It's been a while since we have been on here. All is going great. Lili came over in December of 2011 and we married. She received her 2 year green card in August of 2012. When I did all the paper work I didn't send in the docs so Lili could work (we didn't plan on her working for a while). Now she wants to work? Can she legally work with the 2 year green card or do we need something else? Thanks, Matt and Lili
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hi everyone. now that my wife has her visa in hand and will be in the states on dec. 8th what comes after that? does she need to apply for a green card right away? can we get her a state ID card with the visa? we have been so absorbed in the visa process we never stopped to think about what comes after the visa. and help/hints/advice will be greatly appreciated. BTW...i was informed last night that we will not be using the heat just need to buy thick quilts and wear more clothes in the house. lol. i live in the mountains....we will see how that goes
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As some you you might remember ChunMei's been working as a nanny for a Chinese American family since November. Originally it was supposed to be a day job, but then turned into an overnight stay on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. Fortunately she could ride the bus to get there and back; the bus trip takes about 45 minutes. Late last week her employers told her that they were buying a new house, and would be moving sometime in March. Here's the problem. The new house is on the far north side of the Denver metro area. We live on the far south side. With no traffic it's a 45 minute one-way drive to her new job location, through downtown Denver. Since she would need to be there at 7:30 AM we have tthreechoices. First one, I'd need to change my work hours to drive her there every day, and to pick her up, and the round trip is about 70 miles, during rush hours. Obviously a non-starter. Second option is for her to use public transportation. Problem is, the is a two and a half hour one-way ride requiring 4 transfers between local buses, the train, a regional bus, and another local bus, followed by a 1.5 mile walk after she gets off the bus in Boulder. She'd need to catch the first bus at 4:45 AM, and she wouldn't get home until about 9:30 PM. The third choice, proposed by her employers, is that I bring her up to their home every Sunday evening and she woild live there until Saturday morning, when I'd pick her up. Neither of us is wildly enthusiastic about that; me less so than ChunMei, because she likes the kids and the mother (the father, not so much.) Honestly I'm not sure what that would do to our marriage. When we was living in China before she came here we'd talk at least once a day on our computers, but even that isn't an option here, because she's minding two kids, and we currently don't even have time to talk on the phone now ehen she's staying there. So we'd have less contact than we had when she was 9,000 miles away. And what happens when the time comes for AOS? What would be the position of ICE about a "valid marriage" when we're essentially living apart? Not sure what to do here. She is torn between wanting to be with me and wanting to take care of the kids, because she's become attached to them. The parents have been putting pressure on her to stay with them. And she really wants to work so she can send money to her family. And jobs for someone in her situation are hard to come by here in Denver. Not sure what to do. I don't think anybody here has any answers for me, but I needed to vent a little with people who might understand the situation. Thanks.
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My fiance is a nurse in China, Now she has 3 years of college and has been a nurse for 15 years, When she arrives in the U.S. she wants to continue working as a nurse, But how will this work? can she provide copies of her college transcripts and nursing degree? or will she have to go to school here? She is better educated then most registered nurses in the U.S. But I am not sure what to tell her about this subject? Please help thanks.
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Ok, Guichun has been working at our local A&P in the bakery dept. going on 4 years now, minus the year off for the birth of Jenna . Very hard job, most people want to work in that dept. because they get the most hours but very few last too long. They have one girl who is in charge of cake decorating, cakes for the store and special orders. The last few months were busy and Guichun was able to help her out, she just took to it. Manager was very impressed and told her to take some classes, she did . Starting in Jan. she's in charge of cake decorating, the other girl is leaving, so more money and better hours for Guichun! She's been making cakes for family and friends for a bit now but I guess I'm posting because I'm just so damn proud of her, everyone at work seen her work and over the last month she made 3 cakes for my co-workers and made some nice money on the side. 1st one, just a spring theme. http://i48.tinypic.com/5oytxt.jpg Next one for a birthday, They just wanted a gift box. http://i46.tinypic.com/281g6eb.jpg http://i48.tinypic.com/3166pgi.jpg Co-worker renewing their wedding vows, again very small. Ok, this last one blows my mind. Co-worker is having a sweet 16 party for her daughter, wants a baseball theme, checked with a lot of shops and for a regular cake with some baseball decorations on top for 120 people the cost would be about 500.00. Asks me if my wife can help, she says no problem I told her to be very careful because this was a big party and there would be no time for my co-worker to run to the bakery if it could not be done. What does my wife do? she builds a ballpark! Posting them next! Not able to post all the photos in one post so I'll do them next
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My wife immigrated from China five years ago. When she first arrived, she spoke almost no English at all. Today, her language skills have improved and she can easily engage in a casual English conversation. She has tried different jobs over the years, but they were all minimum wage jobs. She eventually became discouraged with each one and quit. Ultimately, she wants to earn a college degree or some sort of certification... anything to help her earn a decent wage. Finances are really tight in our one income household. The problem is that she is probably reading at a 5th grade level, which is a long way from what is needed for college or even to earn a GED. So I have several questions: 1. Does she even need to get a GED, since she completed two years of college in China? If not, how do we get her credentials transfered and recognized here? 2. How do I get her speaking, reading, and writing skills quickly up to par? Is her dream of getting career training or attending college even reasonable? 3. What are some possible careers for someone with limited English skills? Does anyone have a success story to share? Thanks!
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hello, my wife got the k3 visa last tuesday. now the question is, what can she do in the usa? she says people in the 001 forum suggests learning haircut/cosmetology? what do u think? she's giving me one week to come up with something...
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My wife has been in the USA since April 2007, we finally got greencard in January 2009. She finally gets a job interview in October 2009 (how sad it took that long). She got a work permit in June of 2007. It expired 2 years from the day that she came into the USA, on April 23,2009. I swear it seems like I remember hearing that you didn't need a work permit once a greencard was obtained. Is that correct? Do we need to renew the old expired one? I totally forgot hers had expired, it took her 2+ years for an interview...as a cashier at a grocery store, and her with 2 bachelor degrees and bilingual.
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I was curious as to what everyones Partner did whenthey lived in China. My Hui was a accountant she worked freelance for many different companys and made about 4500Cny a month in Income. She was Happy to leave accounting as she told me her father had decided that would be her job. Now when she comes to to live in Arizona she is asking me what she should do. I told her pick something she likes and go for it. She would love to work with animals. We will see what she finds, when she dose find something I hope it willbe a job she really enjoys. Robert
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