I got a 10yr visa last month from Hong Kong. Is there a specific question I can answer?

How long is each stay?

Unfortunately, each stay is only 60 days.

After I dropped the visa off in the morning, having arrived the day before, I had to wait until the following afternoon after 4pm to pick up my new visa/passport. There are no flights back to Kunming in the evening so I had to stay that night also for a total of 4 days, 3 nights.

The process itself was easy. Fill out a 4 page paperwork and hand them your passport. Pay when you pick up at a cost of 2200HK dollars, I think it was.

Back in March they would not issue me a 10 year visa because I had 2 weeks less than 10 years remaining on my passport (Q2 visa class, not visitor).
I got a 9 year, with 90 day stay, 2200 HKD. At my age I'll probably be dead before the 9 years is up.

At the time I had several agencies tell me they were only doing 9 year 60 day.

@Goldie
So your entire family has to leave every two months? Where would you go? Isn't it expensive? Where would you suggest you exit and enter from, Thailand?Vietnam? Just curious.

Yes, every 2 months. It will be expensive. Not sure where to go yet as it will depend on the costs to go to different places. It was nearly 10,000 for the Hong Kong travel (not including the visa costs), but it was high season.

@goldie122
Are your plans to make China your 1st home? Didn't you say that you were planning to open up a restaurant and wouldn't that allow you to get a different type of visa with a longer stay without having to go out every 60 days?

Not sure. I've been here more than 10 years so getting the itch to try a new place... still in Asia but maybe not China. This visa was just a temporary solution to needing a visa quickly with no sponsor. Kind of just playing it by ear now to see if we will stay here or move. The restaurant will continue if we decide to stay.

@goldie122
I see. I've been here for 10 years too and if I had the money I would love to relocation to another Asian country too. I love being here don't get me wrong but would love to live maybe in Thailand, Japan, Korea if it wasn't for the lack of funds :-(. My wife wants to immigrate to Canada( a lot of her friends are moving there). She's Chinese(Kunming native) and doesn't speak much English and says that living in Japan is a No!No! with all the tensions. For me money is the numbers issue. The cost of living here vs. other Asian countries has to be considered.

@Luiningke1234, haven't you been able to explain to your wife that the only "tensions" with Japan are what's written in the Chinese press?