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marinboy
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 Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: Visa |
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I'm coming to Japan later this month, I'm picking up my COE from Nova next week and then taking it to the Japanese embassy for the visa to be issued.
On the visa application form it asks 'Length of Stay' - Nova says to put '1 year'. I assume if I put this then I'll get a one year visa, would I be able to put longer in the hope that I'll get a three year visa? |
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rai
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure what the exact rule is, but I have never heard of a teacher getting a three-year visa on the first go. Hell, I knew a JET teacher who extended his visa three times, and they stuck him with a one-year visa each time.
It seems to be a crap shoot when you re-apply, seemingly based almost entirely on the person processing your paper-work, the kind of day they're having, and the alignment of the planets. I got lucky and got a three-year visa when I re-applied, but other people with almost the exact same background as me got a one-year.  I'm thinking you don't have a choice, you're getting a one-year visa this time.
Don't worry, though! It's not a bad thing! |
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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure what the exact rule is, but I have never heard of a teacher getting a three-year visa on the first go. |
Immigration decides what kind of visa they will give. There is no rule limiting which visa you receive the first time around. It's either a 1 year visa or 3 year visa. Yes, NOVA teachers can get a 3 year visa on the first go. If you search the forum, there are many explanations/guesses etc.
I hope that helps. I'll get back to preparing my lesson involving suprasegmental aspects of English phonology, top-down listening skills, communication strategies, like appealing for help from the interlocutor with a high degree of automaticity.  |
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bluefrog
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
I hope that helps. I'll get back to preparing my lesson involving suprasegmental aspects of English phonology, top-down listening skills, communication strategies, like appealing for help from the interlocutor with a high degree of automaticity. |
LOL!
Good one!  (NOT sarcasm) |
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rai
Joined: 19 Jun 2005
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Location: Osaka
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| rai wrote: |
| I'm not sure what the exact rule is, but I have never heard of a teacher getting a three-year visa on the first go. |
Immigration decides what kind of visa they will give. There is no rule limiting which visa you receive the first time around. It's either a 1 year visa or 3 year visa. Yes, NOVA teachers can get a 3 year visa on the first go. If you search the forum, there are many explanations/guesses etc.
I hope that helps. I'll get back to preparing my lesson involving suprasegmental aspects of English phonology, top-down listening skills, communication strategies, like appealing for help from the interlocutor with a high degree of automaticity. |
Cool! Can you explain exactly how you present that material to the students? I understand it's very important. |
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Chris21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like a fun class! |
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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| rai wrote: |
| canuck wrote: |
| rai wrote: |
| I'm not sure what the exact rule is, but I have never heard of a teacher getting a three-year visa on the first go. |
Immigration decides what kind of visa they will give. There is no rule limiting which visa you receive the first time around. It's either a 1 year visa or 3 year visa. Yes, NOVA teachers can get a 3 year visa on the first go. If you search the forum, there are many explanations/guesses etc.
I hope that helps. I'll get back to preparing my lesson involving suprasegmental aspects of English phonology, top-down listening skills, communication strategies, like appealing for help from the interlocutor with a high degree of automaticity. |
Cool! Can you explain exactly how you present that material to the students? I understand it's very important. |
I am merely mirroring your own annoying attitude back at you to show you how annoying YOU are. It's an old rhetorical trick, geddit? I'm pretty sure the other people on this thread got what I was doing. |
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rai
Joined: 19 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| rai wrote: |
| canuck wrote: |
| rai wrote: |
| I'm not sure what the exact rule is, but I have never heard of a teacher getting a three-year visa on the first go. |
Immigration decides what kind of visa they will give. There is no rule limiting which visa you receive the first time around. It's either a 1 year visa or 3 year visa. Yes, NOVA teachers can get a 3 year visa on the first go. If you search the forum, there are many explanations/guesses etc.
I hope that helps. I'll get back to preparing my lesson involving suprasegmental aspects of English phonology, top-down listening skills, communication strategies, like appealing for help from the interlocutor with a high degree of automaticity. |
Cool! Can you explain exactly how you present that material to the students? I understand it's very important. |
I am merely mirroring your own annoying attitude back at you to show you how annoying YOU are. It's an old rhetorical trick, geddit? I'm pretty sure the other people on this thread got what I was doing. |
It isn't annoying at all! I thought it sounded like the beginning of a real discussion about teaching. I guess I was wrong  |
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User N. Ame
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
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Location: Kanto
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| rai wrote: |
| canuck wrote: |
| rai wrote: |
| canuck wrote: |
| rai wrote: |
| I'm not sure what the exact rule is, but I have never heard of a teacher getting a three-year visa on the first go. |
Immigration decides what kind of visa they will give. There is no rule limiting which visa you receive the first time around. It's either a 1 year visa or 3 year visa. Yes, NOVA teachers can get a 3 year visa on the first go. If you search the forum, there are many explanations/guesses etc.
I hope that helps. I'll get back to preparing my lesson involving suprasegmental aspects of English phonology, top-down listening skills, communication strategies, like appealing for help from the interlocutor with a high degree of automaticity. |
Cool! Can you explain exactly how you present that material to the students? I understand it's very important. |
I am merely mirroring your own annoying attitude back at you to show you how annoying YOU are. It's an old rhetorical trick, geddit? I'm pretty sure the other people on this thread got what I was doing. |
It isn't annoying at all! I thought it sounded like the beginning of a real discussion about teaching. I guess I was wrong |
Rai and canuck... why don't you two go get a love hotel room, or something. This affair is crossing various threads now and canuck, sorry to say, you are just as annoying as the guy you claim to be mirroring. Enough already. Here's one for both of you: how about trying to think outside the box?
Oh ya, the visa thing... I was given a 3-yr first go around and second go around, but it is a case-by-case sort of thing. |
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