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I am going back to the Mainland!!@!#$!@

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Do not bring back more than 10 or 15 DVDs, especially Hollywood movies that arent even out on DVDs.
One guy got fined something like 10k per DVD and is in the process of selling his house to pay for the fine cuz he brought a whole suitcase of them.

Its one thing to bring back a couple pirated DVDs for home entertainment, its another if you bring a whole lot of them, the customs will think that you are trying to profit off of the discs.
 
Originally posted by: welst10
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: welst10
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Originally posted by: amoeba
I hope these " I hope they let you out" posts are sarcastic.......

I can't tell.

As to experiences, I've never been to Guangdong/GuangXi. Post your age and whether you speak cantonese.
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This Chinese dude working in our cleanrooms went home for a one month visit, and he was there for six months. It took some influence from a California senator to get him back in the States. The Chinese who wouldn't let him leave.

A lot of grad students don't go home because they fear they won't be able to come back. This stuff just started up in the past few years.

It doesn't apply to Americans... I'm under the impression that the OP is a citizen by the way he's talking about his visits to China.

Bring me back a dried up gall bladder from some endangered animal. Thanks!
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You don't know what you talking about. A lot of grad students don't go home because they worry about getting US entry visa on the way back. Since 9/11, there have been hundred of cases where US denied or delayed the visa for months. Almost all my Chinese friends have been back to China in last 5 yrs.
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It's a little bit of both actually. Alot of chiense students are unwilling to go back until they have procured a green card/ us passport because many overstay their original visas and file for new ones. The chinese government doesn't let people out easily, usually its for education and then expects them to come back.
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I have never heard about such a thing. I have more than a dozen friends who went back to China (most of them on student visa, a few with green card). Never heard any of them had problems with government coming back, they only worry about gettting the US visa.
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Just 'cause you've got your head up your ass and travel in small circles doesn't mean others are wrong.

I'll admit that a lot of my classmates worry about getting back into the States, and it was a lot easier when they could just hop down to Mexico to ensure they could get a visa. It's not as if I was saying that Chinese students don't worry about the US not letting them back in.

I've seen two specific cases in the past two years of the Chinese side holding people up. One of the guys was working for CREE at the university (but no longer on a student visa) and was stuck in China for months because he was having trouble on the Chinese side. Congresswoman Lois Capps was able to step in with some type of influence, and that got the guy back to his job.

The other is a grad student that I don't know.
 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
I had no idea you can be dual citizen w/ China and US. Do u have a HK passport?
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Nope, but I do have my Chinese Birth Cert... which automatically makes me a "Chinese Citizen"? And of course, got my US Passport as well...


Will definitely try to leave the STD's back in the Mainland 🙂


Also, won't be needing to bring back DVD's and such as I get "hooked up" here in the states with that stuff no prob... 😉


Looking for more "LOCAL" info...
 
Are you going to visit your village with your family or by yourself.......... you do know that your relatives will want a whole sh!t load of stuff.

I want to visit the village my parents where born in but every time we go we have to buy so much stuff for the relatives (ie. wash & dryers, tvs etc.).

My parents are not rich people but I bet they have financed 8 houses in the village over the years.

The relatives think we are stinking rich.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
to the OP: which cities are you going to?

and on a side note, if you see a "barbershop" with dark tinted windws and honeys sitting around on couches, they do more than cut your hair 😉
 
Originally posted by: HamSupLo
to the OP: which cities are you going to?

and on a side note, if you see a "barbershop" with dark tinted windws and honeys sitting around on couches, they do more than cut your hair 😉
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yeah........... they steal your kidney's & leave you in a tub of ice 😉

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Originally posted by: IronFar
Originally posted by: Mo0o
I had no idea you can be dual citizen w/ China and US. Do u have a HK passport?
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Nope, but I do have my Chinese Birth Cert... which automatically makes me a "Chinese Citizen"? And of course, got my US Passport as well...


Will definitely try to leave the STD's back in the Mainland 🙂


Also, won't be needing to bring back DVD's and such as I get "hooked up" here in the states with that stuff no prob... 😉


Looking for more "LOCAL" info...
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Wait China gives out birthcertificates?
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
Are you going to visit your village with your family or by yourself.......... you do know that your relatives will want a whole sh!t load of stuff.

I want to visit the village my parents where born in but every time we go we have to buy so much stuff for the relatives (ie. wash & dryers, tvs etc.).

My parents are not rich people but I bet they have financed 8 houses in the village over the years.

The relatives think we are stinking rich.

Cheers,
Aquaman
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Will be going back with some family, but not the extremely old ones. Probably won't be visiting whatever relatives I have there that aren't here in the States, so I am not worried about giving $$ and shiet.

What was with that comment about them taking your livers and shiet? I might be inclined to visit a few massage parlors actually... 🙂

FYI, will be at several stops: HK, Shenzhen, Canton.

Looking for anymore first hand experiences at Shenzhen or Canton, btw.
 
Originally posted by: amoeba
do you speak cantonese?

That would probably help.
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i dont think so, that'd help for hong kong, but i think over there, these days, it's mandarin that's more useful. even in SZ.
 
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