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Mr_Monkey
Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 661 Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| That's one for the folks who live in Japan just now - I don't know myself as I'm heading back to Japan next year, but I'll have a spouse visa. |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| If I want to renew my visa, though, can I count private lessons towards the 200,000 yen a month guideline that they apparently use for determining whether to extend to a freelance teaching visa? I heard somewhere that only jobs with established companies with whom you sign a contract are applicable to that 200,000 yen a month requirement... |
That's what I heard, too. You need to show them contracts between you and the employer. That's why that route is usually only taken by people teaching part-time at several eikaiwa, high schools, universities etc. |
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ShioriEigoKyoushi
Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 364 Location: Japan
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:07 am Post subject: |
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Mr_Monkey
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| ShioriEigoKyoushi wrote: |
| There's no such thing as a "freelance teaching visa" |
No one said there was. |
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ShioriEigoKyoushi
Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 364 Location: Japan
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Whatever. It was obvious that he meant the self-sponsored visa and was describing it as a 'freelance teaching'- because in that case you aren't working for a single full-time employer. |
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ShioriEigoKyoushi
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Rooster_2006
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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I meant "self-sponsored visa."
Semantics, semantics.
Honestly, unless the name in Japanese is "serufu suponsaado biza" in katakana, I think there could multiple translations.
I consider working for multiple schools on a voluntary basis to be "freelance," so I see nothing incorrect about referring to it as a "freelance teaching visa." Nobody is ever truly self-employed, aside from subsistence farmers and hunter-gatherers... |
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