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Mark
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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject: Professor visa status |
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Hi folks,
Does anyone know what work you are allowed to do with a Professor visa? If you work with Westgate, your visa status is changed to a professor visa. Does anyone know if this complicates the job hunt after your Westgate contract is completed?
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject: Re: Professor visa status |
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| Mark wrote: |
Hi folks,
Does anyone know what work you are allowed to do with a Professor visa? If you work with Westgate, your visa status is changed to a professor visa. Does anyone know if this complicates the job hunt after your Westgate contract is completed?
Thanks |
Just curious as to where you saw the professor visa, as to my knowledge, one doesnt exist. There is a instructor visa and a Humanities visa, but not a professors, though university professors can work on these visas.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/appendix1.html
Generally speaking on these visas, you can do any kinds of teaching jobs, as long as they fall within your visa status.
At Westgate you are not a professor but a conversation school teacher working on a university campus. There should be no problem with getting sponsorship if you are looking for English teaching jobs, but only immigration can give you a definite answer. |
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taikibansei
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: Professor visa status |
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| PAULH wrote: |
Just curious as to where you saw the professor visa, as to my knowledge, one doesnt exist. There is a instructor visa and a Humanities visa, but not a professors, though university professors can work on these visas.. |
Paul (& Mark), this was posted on another thread:
http://www.japan.org.au/Evisa.htm
1. Professor
Permitted activities
Research activities, research guidance or education at universities, equivalent educational institutions or technical colleges (Koto Senmon Gakko).
Period of stay: 3 years, 1 year or 6 months
7. Instructor
Permitted activities
Language instruction and other education at elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, schools for the blind, handicapped children's schools, advanced vocational schools (Senshu Gakko), vocational schools or the other educational institutions equivalent to vocational schools in facilities and curriculum.
Period of stay: 1 year or 6 months
Don't know if this is a new thing or what. |
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Mark
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| All I know is that Westgate called it a professor visa. Perhaps it was a mistranslation. Sounds like I'd have to get my status changed back after Westgate though. A bit of a hassle. |
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Mark
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| Also, I know the job isn't being a professor. It's just that they said we worked on a professor visa. I assumed that was because we were stationed at a university. |
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Timuli
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Professor visas do exist. It's one of the categories of visas you can choose from if you qualify. I recently had my visa changed from Humanities Specialis. Current visa status: Professor. Renewed for 3 years. All it means (As Mark and taikibansei pointed out already) is that you work at tertiary institutions, specifically universities. Means you're not meant to work at other places of English learning like a kindergarten or eikawa. Also does not necessarily mean that you are indeed a "Professor" with a Phd behind your back.
Very technically if you're working at unis you should be on a professors visa, but there are many who are on humanities and instructors visas. |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:14 am Post subject: |
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| My visa says: Category E as Professor |
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G Cthulhu
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Professor visa status |
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| taikibansei wrote: |
Paul (& Mark), this was posted on another thread:
http://www.japan.org.au/Evisa.htm
7. Instructor
Period of stay: 1 year or 6 months
Don't know if this is a new thing or what. |
Methinks that is simply wrong. Instructors visas have been up to three year POS for over five years now.
& Westgate teachers *certainly* aren't 'professors'. :) |
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