You should be fine, especially if they renewed your visa/residence permit before.
The immigration people at the PSB were bored in 2021 because borders were closed. I got fined 10k because I went into the office, of my own company, after I got a work permit, but before I got my residence permit. Paid the fine, apologized, and it was fine.
I would say you're probably fine. You paid the fine, did the apology.
This is actually very common, when I started working in China, they also told me not to come to the office till I got the residence permit because a colleague was fined in the same way as you, had the work permit but not the residence permit.
It's so ridiculous for them to fine you like that. They're the one's who've got it set up in such a way that you have to wait like 1 month after you receive your work permit to get your passport in hand with the residence permit in it.
Makes me think, there are so many ways that they can come down on foreigners for jus arbritrary things if they wanted to.
You should be fine, especially if they renewed your visa/residence permit before. The immigration people at the PSB were bored in 2021 because borders were closed. I got fined 10k because I went into the office, of my own company, after I got a work permit, but before I got my residence permit. Paid the fine, apologized, and it was fine. I would say you're probably fine. You paid the fine, did the apology.
This is actually very common, when I started working in China, they also told me not to come to the office till I got the residence permit because a colleague was fined in the same way as you, had the work permit but not the residence permit.
Thank you that's giving me some relief
Just relax and wait until they get bored again next time :-D
It's so ridiculous for them to fine you like that. They're the one's who've got it set up in such a way that you have to wait like 1 month after you receive your work permit to get your passport in hand with the residence permit in it. Makes me think, there are so many ways that they can come down on foreigners for jus arbritrary things if they wanted to.