Expats returning to China
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Vietnam is easy, minus Covid testing and a 13 hour layover in Dubai, to get into now if you are a Vietnamese national. Took a friend to the consulate here in Houston a few weeks ago and she got a 5 year exempt. Took her to the airport on Wednesday, she sent me a text at 7:00 this morning letting me know that she got there ok.AE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:42 pmVietnam has been damn near very impossible to get in, even for many Vietnamese. My ex's family (being Vietnamese) have not been back since 2019, and they used to travel almost every month, sometimes twice a month to visit family.
I personally have a hard time believing random Chinese are transiting through given how strict I've heard border controls and immigration is up in Hanoi.
Re: Expats returning to China
Plus, China is building a wall on the border with Vietnam and Myanmar: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-25/ ... r/13068344AE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:18 pmI know.nemo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:57 pmAndy is referring to informal entriesAE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:42 pm Vietnam has been damn near very impossible to get in, even for many Vietnamese. My ex's family (being Vietnamese) have not been back since 2019, and they used to travel almost every month, sometimes twice a month to visit family.
I personally have a hard time believing random Chinese are transiting through given how strict I've heard border controls and immigration is up in Hanoi.
Hanoi was on a fairly extreme lockdown, as was HCMC, and police were stopping people everywhere all the time in broad daylight and often times preventing people from leaving their houses or opening any kind of business in many districts (family members included). So given the severity of the police presence it would seem rather unattractive for those trying to bumble their way to SHV to do so through Vietnam as opposed somewhere like Laos in my view, given the relative lack of borders up north and much heavier Chinese presence there.
Just my view.
I wonder if they're going to try to make Vietnam pay for it?!
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Re: Expats returning to China
I live in the north of Vietnam, near the border, and it is an open secret that Chinese are crossing illegally every day. Dome do get caught but it is a difficult border to patrol and many get through.AE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:18 pmI know.nemo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:57 pmAndy is referring to informal entriesAE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:42 pm Vietnam has been damn near very impossible to get in, even for many Vietnamese. My ex's family (being Vietnamese) have not been back since 2019, and they used to travel almost every month, sometimes twice a month to visit family.
I personally have a hard time believing random Chinese are transiting through given how strict I've heard border controls and immigration is up in Hanoi.
Hanoi was on a fairly extreme lockdown, as was HCMC, and police were stopping people everywhere all the time in broad daylight and often times preventing people from leaving their houses or opening any kind of business in many districts (family members included). So given the severity of the police presence it would seem rather unattractive for those trying to bumble their way to SHV to do so through Vietnam as opposed somewhere like Laos in my view, given the relative lack of borders up north and much heavier Chinese presence there.
Just my view.
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I was hoping you'd chip in Thanks for that.hanno wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:26 amI live in the north of Vietnam, near the border, and it is an open secret that Chinese are crossing illegally every day. Dome do get caught but it is a difficult border to patrol and many get through.AE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:18 pmI know.nemo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:57 pmAndy is referring to informal entriesAE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:42 pm Vietnam has been damn near very impossible to get in, even for many Vietnamese. My ex's family (being Vietnamese) have not been back since 2019, and they used to travel almost every month, sometimes twice a month to visit family.
I personally have a hard time believing random Chinese are transiting through given how strict I've heard border controls and immigration is up in Hanoi.
Hanoi was on a fairly extreme lockdown, as was HCMC, and police were stopping people everywhere all the time in broad daylight and often times preventing people from leaving their houses or opening any kind of business in many districts (family members included). So given the severity of the police presence it would seem rather unattractive for those trying to bumble their way to SHV to do so through Vietnam as opposed somewhere like Laos in my view, given the relative lack of borders up north and much heavier Chinese presence there.
Just my view.
Most of my ex's family that still live in Vietnam (minus one) are down south in HCMC, and I'm guessing they're probably a bit too convinced from news reports that the government has everything under control up North.
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Re: Expats returning to China
I'd discourage anyone from returning to teaching English in China now. It's a very different place post-Covid. Great money to be made, but at a price.
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Hardly a wall more of a fence.Ong Tay wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:19 amPlus, China is building a wall on the border with Vietnam and Myanmar: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-25/ ... r/13068344AE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:18 pmI know.nemo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:57 pmAndy is referring to informal entriesAE86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:42 pm Vietnam has been damn near very impossible to get in, even for many Vietnamese. My ex's family (being Vietnamese) have not been back since 2019, and they used to travel almost every month, sometimes twice a month to visit family.
I personally have a hard time believing random Chinese are transiting through given how strict I've heard border controls and immigration is up in Hanoi.
Hanoi was on a fairly extreme lockdown, as was HCMC, and police were stopping people everywhere all the time in broad daylight and often times preventing people from leaving their houses or opening any kind of business in many districts (family members included). So given the severity of the police presence it would seem rather unattractive for those trying to bumble their way to SHV to do so through Vietnam as opposed somewhere like Laos in my view, given the relative lack of borders up north and much heavier Chinese presence there.
Just my view.
I wonder if they're going to try to make Vietnam pay for it?!
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