When Judy came home last night, she mentioned the BISS HR dept. needed a correction on the paperwork she turned in on Monday to renew her visa for working in China. Our temporary residence permit (updated when we returned from Phuket) had a wrong date. One of the blanks is titled “Leaving”, and is meant to show when we’re departing China. The clerk at the police station used the date on our apartment fapiao (tax form, proving the landlord was paying tax on the property). Since the tax is paid monthly, the ending date on the fapiao was March 27, and that’s what’s now on our residence permit. It should be July 27th. My job today is to get this corrected and get the residence permit and Judy’s passport back to BISS, so they can get the work done on her visa (which takes a month).
Before anything can happen, BISS has to give Judy the fapiao for this month. She texts me she has it, so I grab my passport, residence permit (mine is also incorrect), and our apartment lease. I take the train to BISS, walk from the station to the school, get the paperwork, walk back to the station, and take the train to a station near the police office. At the police station, I attempt to show the clerk the problem, shoving our passport/visa and lease in front of them pointing to the date, and then showing them the mistake on the residence permit. They try to ask me a few questions, which I, of course, can’t understand. Eventually I get the corrected paperwork, and head back to the train and BISS. When I finally get everything back to Judy, I’m feeling like I deserve a special lunch to celebrate. Judy can’t get loose, so I treat myself to a really tasty lunch of stir-fried green beans and gungbao (not sure about that spelling) chicken at the small chinese restaurant near BISS. Yum!
Trees at BISS
Since I’m still near BISS, I stop in at Gome, looking for a small desk fan for Judy’s upstairs classroom. They have one that is perfect. I make the purchase (not as easy as it should have been, no one seemed too eager to sell anything). I take it back to Judy’s classroom and put it together, just in time to make sure it’s going to fit the situation.
Back home, Lilly is finishing cleaning, so I head over for my afternoon swim session. This has been a productive day, although most of the work was created by a mistake on a form that shouldn’t have occurred.