My wechat wallet had the same issue as above, but I noticed a few minutes later it was working again, guess it was some type of glitch in their system?

If you can (very difficult to get anything in writing from the PSB) it would be good for you to have a statement from the Yunnan Exit and Entry PSB saying that you had visited them to register the kids but your case could not be dealt with by them and they need to be registered in Qingdao. Anyway at least when you are in Qingdao you will know that if they suggest you register them in Kunming you will know that that is not an option.

I guess that the hot potato in this case is the police have not done their work and these three kids have not been registered and resident permits applied for. Of course it’s the parents who should have done this but it’s also the responsibility of the entry exit PSB and the local PSB where they were living to make sure the parents followed the law. I guess that the main problem now is which PSB office will being taking the responsibility for not doing their job properly.

But in the end it’s the exit entry PSB office that is the unit

to issue the resident permits to the 3 kids

to allow them to leave. So I would camp out there till they issue the permits.

Once you have the permits in your kids passports then there will be no issues when you leave China.

@JanJal, yes a foreign couple I know did get married here, but that was around 2008 and it seems the rules changed since then