Academic receives first unified work permit
November 7, 2016 Category Expat corner, Weekly
Joaquim Nassar, Dean of SJTU-ParisTech Institute of Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has become the first foreigner to receive the new unified work permit. When he started working at the university a year ago he applied for a foreign expert certificate, which also functioned as a work permit under the previous rules. Expatriates who were not experts needed to apply for a regular work permit. Under a pilot scheme in Shanghai and some other provinces and cities, the two permits have been merged into one. The whole application process took just three days, as Nassar was identified as a top talent. For now, the permit is issued in paper form as the program is still on trial from this month to March. From next April, the new permit will be issued as a card with a radio frequency identification chip, making it easier to carry, and to prevent it being counterfeited. The number of resident foreign experts in Shanghai bloomed to 93,000 at the end of last year, up from 88,000 in 2013. Last year, the city approved about 150,000 employment permits and expert certificates, involving nearly 40,000 employers. Under the new system, each expat will receive a unique identification number for life.
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