{"id":1076,"date":"2019-07-20T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2019-07-20T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:15:29","slug":"how-can-i-get-a-visa-teaching-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/1076","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Get a Visa Teaching in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AM I ELIGIBLE TO TEACH IN CHINA?<\/h2>\n
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As of 2017, to teach TEFL in China, you must hold a Bachelor\u2019s degree, a TEFL certificate, and preferably have prior teaching experience too. In general, employers are looking for candidates with a 120 Hour TEFL Certificate, but the 140 Hour TEFL Certificate may be worth looking into if you don\u2019t have any teaching experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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HOW CAN I GET A VISA?<\/h2>\n
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To work legally in China, you will need a \u2018Z\u2019 visa \u2013 a working visa required for all foreigners working in the country. To get this, you\u2019ll need a Bachelor\u2019s degree in any subject and a TEFL certificate or at least two years of teaching experience. This combination makes you a \u2018foreign expert\u2019 in the eyes of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

You also need to be a passport holder of Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK or the US. And the application process includes a police check, a medical check, providing a reference, and notarisation of your certificates of education.<\/p>\n

Before you can apply for a \u2018Z\u2019 visa, you need an offer of employment and a contract from your school. Unfortunately, you can\u2019t apply for a visa in advance and then go hunting for any teaching job you like!<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t have a Bachelor\u2019s degree, you won\u2019t be able to get the \u2018Z\u2019 visa, and therefore legal teaching work. But with a shortfall of around 100,000 English teachers, many TEFL teachers do find work without a degree or a working visa. Though, it\u2019s not uncommon to hear of teachers being arrested and deported for working illegally on a tourist visa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AM I ELIGIBLE TO TEACH IN CHINA? As of 2017, to teach … ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-in-china"],"en_md_date":"Jul. 20, 2019","thumbnailurl":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/2022013101470852.jpg","fr_down_url":"","author_avatar":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1.jpg","author_name":"Elite RE","author_url":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/me\/1","post_views":"1235","parent_cat":"Live in China","cat_id":2,"cat_names":"Live in China","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}