I paid 15 years of social security, and I will reach retirement age next year. But I am a foreigner, and my account in China has been cancelled. Can I still apply for retirement?

Other people's answers are incorrect and incomplete. After months of investigation, I can give you an authoritative answer! Contrary to what most people think, in theory, even pure foreigners who have never had China citizenship or China permanent resident status (that is, China green card) can "possibly" retire in China and get a pension in China as long as they have worked in China for 15 years! China's social security law is far from perfect in the specific provisions on foreigners. If you look up the legal provisions, you can only see a general expression such as "foreigners are treated according to the regulations of China people", and there is no more specific provision. In this case, the actual operation will encounter various problems. For example, foreigners don't have hukou and Chinese ID cards, and many regulations are related to ID card hukou. Just say a principled sentence "Let foreigners handle it according to the regulations of China people". How to deal with it? ! For example, if a China citizen did social security in many places in China before his retirement age, but none of them reached the age of 10, and every city has a rule that he can only retire in this city after ten years, it seems that he can't retire? However, according to the principle of "household registration first", he can go to the place where he is registered for retirement at any time. Even if he has never had a day of social security in the place where he lives, as long as he activates a new social security account before retirement, he can transfer all the social security relationships in other places to retirement. But what if it is a foreigner? If a foreigner has no household registration in China, where will he retire after 15? ! Does his hard work contribute less to China than China citizens, and does he not deserve a pension? Why should I confiscate his pension? Compared with the United States, as long as a person's total social security tax score exceeds the minimum score, he can get an American pension after retirement, regardless of nationality and country of residence. Fortunately, Beijing is good. In the case just mentioned, Beijing will not care whether you foreigners register or not, nor whether you have paid social security 10 years in Beijing. As long as you have accumulated 15 years in China and worked in Beijing before retirement and paid social security, this foreigner is allowed to retire smoothly in Beijing. But other places are really hard to say.

At present, the actual situation in China is that the specific provisions for foreign-related retirement vary from place to place. Generally speaking, the bigger the city with a large number of foreign workers, the better the treatment of foreigners. The smaller the place, the stricter it is. If you go to a small city in the third and fourth tier, the staff may have never seen such a case in their lives. "You are in a foreign country, and you want to take advantage of China by rubbing your pension in China. Dream on! Don't blush? You are wicked! " -this sentence will send you away!

However, at present, the unified policy in all parts of the country is: if you have started to enjoy retirement benefits every month after retirement, and then your national sales account becomes a foreign nationality, then the state expressly stipulates that even if you are abroad, it will not affect your pension, and you will still make money into your bank account every month. Returning to China with a Chinese visa can reimburse medical expenses just like a social security card. However, you may need the survival certificate of China's embassy in a foreign country every year, or log on to the local social security website with your mobile phone and do some face brushing operations every year to prove that you are still alive. However, if you become (or have been) a foreigner before the retirement age, and you don't have a foreigner's work visa when you retire, you can't go through retirement procedures even if the accumulated social security in China exceeds 15 years. This rule is basically the same all over the country. It is based on the principle that if a foreigner who has no labor relationship with China enters China on a non-work visa such as visiting relatives without a green card in China, then he has no right to pay social security, let alone retire, even if he has accumulated social security for more than 15 years (it is unfair to treat foreigners after accumulating 15 years)! )。

Summarize the current policy: those who have retired and started to receive retirement benefits will not be affected by the change of their household registration status, nationality and residence; However, if you cancel your household registration and change your nationality before retirement, you must have a unit willing to go through the retirement formalities for you before retirement. Otherwise, even if you have completed the social security for 15 years, foreigners without China household registration and permanent resident status cannot retire as individuals. If you find a company in China, you can be hired to work there and pay social security before you retire, so you can burn incense. However, even if there is no real labor relationship, maybe you can find a labor service company to hook it up, just like many social security companies require them to pay social security without local household registration, which is a step.

Foreign-related social security laws and regulations have different policies in different parts of the country, and they are constantly changing. No one can predict what your retirement will be like. It is reasonable to speculate that with the United States stepping up its efforts to suppress and isolate China, China needs to be more in line with the world, and needs reform and opening up, and foreigners' social security retirement may be better in the future, at least not worse. Foreigners who once had China status and later emigrated abroad may be given preferential treatment in the future. The bigger the city with many migrant workers, the easier it is, and the smaller the place, the more difficult or even impossible it is.