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[quote=JIMMYB,506939]Noyan Ronna, a 57 years old Turkish, successfully acquired the Chinese green card (Chinese permanent residence permit) this August. However, he found that it was not as good as he imagined.

Chinese permanent residence permit has another name “Chinese green card”. If you get it, you can stay in mainland China as long as you can. What’s more, you don’t need to apply for the visa when you enter China. With the permanent residence card and passport in your hands, you can enter and leave mainland China as you wish. It sounds very nice, right? However, it is too difficult to apply for the Chinese permanent residence permit successfully. According to the statistics, just about 200 people successfully acquire it every year. Noyan Ronna is a lucky man. He is the only one who has the Chinese permanent residence permit among his friends.

With the Chinese residence permit in hands, the foreigners can enjoy some rights and fulfill some obligations like Chinese people. However, Noyan Ronna doesn’t think that he has enjoyed the rights that he should have enjoyed. Some banks, hotels and financial organizations still don’t accept the Chinese permanent residence permit as personal valid documents. To them, the passport is the only valid document for foreigners.

Noyan Ronna went to the Citibank in Shanghai to open a personal account. The staff refused him immediately when he took out his Chinese permanent residence permit. Noyan knew that he would be declined. He showed the printed version of the new guidelines outlining the rights of foreign “green card” holders to the staff and asked her to look at the 13th provision. According to the 13th provision, those green card holders can use their Chinese permanent residence permit as valid proof of identification when they deal with banking, insurance, securities, futures and other financial activities. The staff looked at the provision and then went into the office to discuss with her manager. She came out two minutes later and told him “No, you can’t use the Chinese permanent residence permit.”

Noyan was very angry. He threw the guidelines on the desk and said “How dare you violate the laws?” The staff said calmly “We just follow our procedures regulated by our company.” She continued “According to our rules, foreigners who come to Citibank for counter business must provide their first and second identification papers. The passport is regarded as the only valid first identification paper.” Therefore, Noyan has to provide his passport (first identification paper) and Chinese permanent residence permit (second identification paper) if he wants to open an account.[/quote]

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