Noob in Beijing/Hebei

[billeuze]

Just signed up to this forum. looks like lots of good informatin here.

I'm from Canada but been living in China foe the last 3 months in a little development that's 1/2 in Beijing (Yanqing county) and 1/2 in Heibei province. Close to the GuYaJu caves if you want to look it up.

If I'm still here come next spring I'll be buying a motorbike to bomb around in. That is if I manage to get my residency permit squared away by then so I can get a drivers license. It took my wife 3 months of navigating red tape and curruption just to get her's so now its my turn. I'm actually back in Canada now for 2 weeks and already I'm thwarted in applying for an S1 visa because the Chinese embasy doesn't accept our mairriage certificate. So by the time I get an official government issued certificate, I'll already be back in China and will have to wait till I leave the county again just to be able to enter with the right type of visa to apply for a residence permit.