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[Who's Your Daddy?]

[soomin]

I did my FBI CRC and turned it in when I first got here... I don't need to get it done again if I left for less than 3 months, right?

[TDC troll]

Where is the original ?
Try to get it back.
Do you have any copies?

[ursus_rex]

Hi, I'm the O.P.

Well, I just did the health check. MoE hasn't a clue what to do with F6 status. Had to do everything an E2 does, which is a bit ridiculous. Did blood and urine, which makes a bit of sense... but also did x-ray and dental, which doesn't. Waste of money as I did all this for national health insurance 3 months ago.

Hospital didn't have a clue as to my status... kept asking if I wanted to extend my e2 .

They really should have thought the application of the law over a bit more extensively... applying for a visa should have a different process than for someone who already has a visa. I've already been accepted into the country and so beyond the screening required of a Korean in the same situation, I should not have to be bothered... i.e. I doubt a Korean would have had to do the x-ray and dental. I can see their use to screen for potential costs of E2 holders to the health care system, but that doesn't apply to me as they have already accepted those costs with the acceptance of my F6 status.

Anyhow, awaiting fingerprint forms from the RCMP and transcripts have been ordered. Now I've got to send my degree home to my dad to get a notarized copy done... thank God he is still young enough to do the footwork for my in Canada.

Stupid thing is... I could probably just go to part time and forget all this hassle... but pension and health benefits are important.

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[ursus_rex]

I'd work there as a contract employee (thus no pension/health) and say I'm a janitor or a clown or a secretary or a resource person or a private tutor renting the space (I am licensed for that) or a cultural consultant or whatever...

Unless private tutors or every other person who may work at an academy is now required to go through the hoops now...

Anyhow, there are ways to legitimately be there as an F-6 that do not require you to be an " English Teacher" per se.

Alternatively, I could always limit myself to part time in non-English kindergartens, for example. I don't believe they are covered. I part time in a couple now.

All this is moot, however, as I am going through the hoops since I like the place at which I currently work... however, if I have to redo this every year I may have second thoughts.

To answer your question, though, I can't specifically recall where I got the idea that the above might be possible.

[Who's Your Daddy?]

I haven't been asked to do it for PT hogwon gigs. But they don't even register me with the MOE (or pension or health).

Here's a different question though: If you have documented yourself at the MOE for your full time job, wouldn't that cover you for any other jobs within the MOE jurisdiction?

[john110375]

Sorry to be a little off topic but what is considered to be part time at a hagwon ?

[ursus_rex]

In my mind, I suppose it is not really part time, but a private contract where benefits are not provided. Really only relevant in the case of F class visa holders. E2s cannot enter into such arrangements legally.

Such arrangements are usually ad hoc and informal.

If you are private tutor, you do pay taxes on them depending on how you arrange things.

I've had arrangements with "schools" which are technically not hakwons because they were of insufficient size. I forget what they are called, but they could only make arrangements with f series visa holders because of their classification. The could not hire E2s.

I'm not certain if they fall under these laws because the employees are essentially private tutors with their own licensing requirements.

I am a "private tutor" technically, and not a "private English tutor" and fall under the same laws as, for instance, a private math tutor.

I'm not certain whether this status falls under the new laws.

edit: to clarify, this is a former position... now I work at an English Academy as specified under the law although I still have a tutor's license and do private work as well.

[Lolimahro]

We just got told this is a "new law" by our school (it was passed last year...go figure). We had one teacher who got here 2 or 3 weeks ago who will have to go through all this again. @.@

Anyway, anyone know when you have to have this stuff in by? By the renewal of one's contract? Is there a deadline, or is it already get passed? Anyone hear of someone getting fined for being late with the documents yet?

Thanks so much in advance.

[soomin]

So, working part-time or as a contractor would mean that you were not required to get these documents again, correct? I'm also really curious as to how long you had to go back to your home country before you were required to do another CBC... I've heard three months and I've heard that any amount of time would require a new one... I really wish MOE would get their stories straight before passing new laws...

[Dodge7]

So what's the final word on if you go back to America for week? Do you need another CBC since it was under 3 months?

[nick70100]

[soomin]

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