life - I have no criminal record...


... but how to prove it? A few weeks ago I took you along on my quest along the Chinese bureaucracy to find a certificate that would state I have no criminal record in China. The notary in my Xuhui district told me to go to my local police station. They send me to the Xuhui court and they send me back to the police station. They collectively decided then that my official danwei, the ministry of foreign affairs, should chop the form I took along from the notary. It took some time to recover from all this.
This morning I called foreign affairs and they asked me to fax a request - something they always do even when you want to use their toilet. They called me and they had already called also the immigration service at Wusong Road. The ball is back in the court of Mr. Wang of the notary office, who has to contact all these institutions. I cannot do this by myself, they said.
I start to wonder whether it is possible to register at my second home in Brussels without this hard to obtain document. Just go after Mr. Wang for the rest of the day.