F visa for study?

Hi guys, can someone use his/her valid F visa to enroll for a 4yr program here in the universities.

Thanks for ya reply!!!!

I think you can, but they will change it to an X visa after that.

Ok Sabrina, Now I need not worry any more.

Xie Xie ni !!!!

You enter the country with a F (or L) visa, but once your registration is done you will be required to go to the police to change it to X (student) visa. X visa cannot be obtained overseas directly, that's why you will have to come first on another visa, before getting the X visa in the city you are going to live.

Thanks Pat,
So need not worry,haha.before l think must get the x visa from my cnrty before l can enroll. lol !!
Cheers pat!!!!

You enter the country with a F (or L) visa, but once your registration is done you will be required to go to the police to change it to X (student) visa. X visa cannot be obtained overseas directly, that's why you will have to come first on another visa, before getting the X visa in the city you are going to live.

Well, i got my X Visa from Nigeria before coming to China, and i still use the same. Maybe it's different in ur country Pat

Well, i got my X Visa from Nigeria before coming to China, and i still use the same. Maybe it's different in ur country Pat

Maybe it's because of the reason you presented your embassy with? I left my country with an X visa, because I was coming here to study.

You enter the country with a F (or L) visa, but once your registration is done you will be required to go to the police to change it to X (student) visa. X visa cannot be obtained overseas directly, that's why you will have to come first on another visa, before getting the X visa in the city you are going to live.

Well, i got my X Visa from Nigeria before coming to China, and i still use the same. Maybe it's different in ur country Pat

OK, things might have changed then, the first time I came to China as student was in 1998! And at that time you needed to come to China on a one-month visa, do all your medical check-up, pay your fees (for self-supporting students) before being granted the final X visa.

OK, things might have changed then, the first time I came to China as student was in 1998! And at that time you needed to come to China on a one-month visa, do all your medical check-up, pay your fees (for self-supporting students) before being granted the final X visa.

In my case I did the medical check up thing back home, given a temporary X visa, did the medical here again and then given a one year X visa for my first year.  They then changed that last year (2006) to a residence permit [purpose of study].  So that's probably what they'll do for Collinstexas, if he's going to study medicine which will take years he'll be given a residence permit, valid until he finish his studies.

@sabrina

What are you currently studying??....Cheers.

So that's probably what they'll do for Collinstexas, if he's going to study medicine which will take years he'll be given a residence permit, valid until he finish his studies.

Oh, is it? i never knew they can give Students Stay permit of more than a Year....Can u brief us more on that Sab..thanks

So that's probably what they'll do for Collinstexas, if he's going to study medicine which will take years he'll be given a residence permit, valid until he finish his studies.

Oh, is it? i never knew they can give Students Stay permit of more than a Year....Can u brief us more on that Sab..thanks

I'm not sure how to "brief" you any further on this...but basically, I got my student residence permit on 2005 and it ends on July '09 after the studies.

Before it was issued, I went to the students office at my school and told them I wanted to extend the student's X visa I had.  The teacher said that it's a new thing in China (year 2005), that we won't be issued this small little green book anymore; everything will be in the passport.  So I paid about a thousand RMB to get it processed by the school.  It came back about a week later with that rectangular visa sticker...here's what it looks like:

http://www.fwpchina.com/images/uploads/residence_permit.jpg

Sab the one on the link is just a year valid ...just like the one in my passport. Anyway, i got ur point now....Thanks a million 

Sab the one on the link is just a year valid ...just like the one in my passport. Anyway, i got ur point now....Thanks a million 

It depends on how much you want to pay.  And obviously if you only have a year left you won't be allowed to extend the visa for 4 more years.

how about you have only one years left on ur studies and you are willing to pay more and more money to get more years?