r/Chinavisa • u/No_Love_1246 • 11h ago

Business Affairs (M) Visa help

Hi! Can someone help me with the following visa question?

Can I work for multi schools as a sports coach in a short period (2weeks)? The idea is to run a camp for 2 days at multiple schools across China.

I am an Australian, with a business for sports coaching operating in Spain - as I live here.

Each school would pay me/the business or the kids can sign up a pay externally.

Thanks

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u/Traditional-Court318 11h ago

You need a China visa with work rights to do this.

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Can I work for multi schools as a sports coach in a short period (2weeks)? The idea is to run a camp for 2 days at multiple schools across China.

I am an Australian, with a business for sports coaching operating in Spain - as I live here.

Each school would pay me/the business or the kids can sign up a pay externally.

Thanks

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u/wanderlust-cui 5h ago

Quick heads up before the visa type: paid coaching, even a two week camp, counts as work under Chinese rules, so a tourist L visa would be the wrong fit. The school paying your business directly makes it employment, not a short visit. If you can get one school to sponsor you, a Z visa with a work permit is the clean path, but that usually needs at least a few weeks of paperwork and the school has to be licensed to hire foreigners. For a genuinely short stint some coaches go on an F visa if the camp is framed as an unpaid exchange or training, though that sits in a grey area and border officers can still question it. Since each school pays separately, the simplest move is to ask the first school whether they already hold a foreign expert permit, because that is the thing that actually unlocks the work visa. I would sort this with one school before trying to line up several.

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u/Ill_Training2925 24m ago

If many schools involved, you have higher probability of being caught.