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Hukou System in China I got married to a Shanghai woman about month ago and have now experienced the importance of HuKou. They pretty much checked it everywhere where we needed to show the marriage book. The funny thing is that to get a spouse visa to EU is not that difficult but to get the documentation that my wife really is Chinese is taking couple of weeks and several trips to different offices. In general I'm finding out that the local government really doesn't know much about their citizens, only the local offices do and even they rely on the people to show their HuKou. If I understand right my wife's data will be added to my home country's database by the consulate and when they input her name in the visa application a visa sticker will be printed out automatically. I have a US passport and that didn't cause any problem but I will need to get a EU ID card when I go back home so that I don't need to carry my passport everywhere in EU. China still needs lot of work on their HuKou system which I'm now part of it seems. I can work in EU and USA but not in China unless I get a work visa, but I can still stay here as a family member of my wife (L-Visa). In US they want you to have the Social Security# and Green Card as soon as possible so they can start collect taxes and fees, and track what you are doing. |
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San Jose Impression The funny thing in US is, that you can be standing and talking on your mobile phone in one city intersection describing which stores you see and the guy at the other end of the line standing in some other city would report that his intersection has exactly the same stores. Here in Shanghai you can go to Xujiahui to check out one vendor selling stuff and find that all the other 30 vendors sell exactly the same things but u still can't find what you are looking for, even it's made in Shanghai. Check out the 237/101 S-W corner Chinese shopping center and the one on Hostetter Rd/ Lundy Ave in East San Jose. |
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How to Read Shanghai Bus Stop Plate Those bus stop plates are nice but can anybody tell why they give only half of the information you need. They tell you the crossroad but not the road the bus is traveling on. When you are outside the 1st ring road there might be 6 different bus lines with ChongQing Lu on them but you have to guess and might end up 3km away from where you are planning to go. Is this done to confuse people, or is the road info considered state secret (in North Korea street signs are missing to make things difficult for the South Korean Army in case they are invading) or is it just that the people who designed these signs were the same ones who got sent out to the country side the learn from peasants instead of going to college. |