Hi friends,
Well, my Brazilian wife-to-be and I have run into a problem.
She's a Brazilian citizen, and we're marrying next month. She lived and worked in Shanghai for two years (beginning in 2007), and remained there on sabbatical for one more year. We are almost ready to submit our PR application after we married.
But it turns out, we're having a lot of trouble getting her police certificate. To obtain it, she needs to show her work permit with entry and exit stamps. But, from what she recalls, her work permit was a separate document from her passport, and it was returned to her employer when the work period was over. She things that Chinese border security stamped this permit, not her passport. Without these work permit entry and exit stamps, she cannot get her certificate.
Her employer won't provide any help, and the only agency that we know of that helps with this sort of thing has insisted that those stamps are required. So it seems we're stuck.
We're going to keep trying of course, and of course we could easily document our efforts. But I am concerned about what would happen if we really could not get this certificate.
Also, does anyone else know of any ideas about how to get this certificate? We're willing to try anything.
Thanks!
Well, my Brazilian wife-to-be and I have run into a problem.
She's a Brazilian citizen, and we're marrying next month. She lived and worked in Shanghai for two years (beginning in 2007), and remained there on sabbatical for one more year. We are almost ready to submit our PR application after we married.
But it turns out, we're having a lot of trouble getting her police certificate. To obtain it, she needs to show her work permit with entry and exit stamps. But, from what she recalls, her work permit was a separate document from her passport, and it was returned to her employer when the work period was over. She things that Chinese border security stamped this permit, not her passport. Without these work permit entry and exit stamps, she cannot get her certificate.
Her employer won't provide any help, and the only agency that we know of that helps with this sort of thing has insisted that those stamps are required. So it seems we're stuck.
We're going to keep trying of course, and of course we could easily document our efforts. But I am concerned about what would happen if we really could not get this certificate.
Also, does anyone else know of any ideas about how to get this certificate? We're willing to try anything.
Thanks!
