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Porlestone
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
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 Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:38 pm Post subject: Basic starter questions |
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From what I understand is you need to have a 1-year working visa to work at english schools in Taiwan. Is this "owned" by the school in the same way as Korea, or is that more "lax"? If you get into a battle with the school are you pretty much doomed to have to leave Taiwan upon fallout?
I am also simultaneously very interested in studying Mandarin at a Taipei university with a good program. If I did the working visa thing first, either decided to quit a ways into it, or didn't get along with the employer, and then decided midway to pursue a university language program instead does Taiwan oppose that? (i.e. in Korea, once you fall out of your work visa, you pretty much are gone for the duration of remainder of visa unless your employer signs agreements giving you rights to have a new life in Korea). Thanks, will ask more questions but that's it for now. |
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clark.w.griswald
Joined: 06 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: Re: Basic starter questions |
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| Porlestone wrote: |
| From what I understand is you need to have a 1-year working visa to work at english schools in Taiwan. Is this "owned" by the school in the same way as Korea, or is that more "lax"? If you get into a battle with the school are you pretty much doomed to have to leave Taiwan upon fallout? |
You will likely get different answers to this from different people. I will however concentrate on what the legislation says and subsequently what generally happens to foreigners in Taiwan.
The work permit is obtained by the school in the name of the school and the teacher. If you leave the school then that work permit becomes invalid. The work permit is not transferrable and can only be used for the school that it was issued on behalf of. As the resident visa and ARC are based upon the work permit, once the work permit is invalidated then so are the resident visa and ARC.
You can legally have more than one employer listed on your ARC and each of these employers needs to supply you with a work permit.
So the process is as follows. You get a job, work permit, resident visa, and ARC through one employer based upon a one year contract of employment. If you decide that you no longer want to work for that employer then you get a work permit through another employer in addition to the one that you currently have. You do not need to get a new visa nor ARC for the second employer, you just get the details of the second employer added to your ARC. So you then have two seperate work permits, one visa, and one ARC. Once this is in order you can leave the first employer and maintain the relevant visa and ARC to remain in Taiwan working legally, and without the need to leave the country.
You must ensure to comply with the terms of resignation from the first employer as far as period of notice and payment of any breach penalties that yoy agreed to when you signed the contract.
| Porlestone wrote: |
| I am also simultaneously very interested in studying Mandarin at a Taipei university with a good program. If I did the working visa thing first, either decided to quit a ways into it, or didn't get along with the employer, and then decided midway to pursue a university language program instead does Taiwan oppose that? (i.e. in Korea, once you fall out of your work visa, you pretty much are gone for the duration of remainder of visa unless your employer signs agreements giving you rights to have a new life in Korea). Thanks, will ask more questions but that's it for now. |
You no longer need a release letter from your employer if you cancel your contract so the Korea situation is somewhat different to the current situation in Taiwan.
There are probably two ways to study and work in Taiwan.
The first would be to get legal work and then study in your time off. As per above you can change employers without the need to leave the country, but if you left employment altogether in favor of studying full time then you would need to leave the country to change your resident visa into a visitors visa for the purposes of study.
The second option is to get a student visa and then work. There are some requirements that you need to meet in this regard and even if accepted for work you can only work part time and less than 16 hours a week. You best speak to your school if you are interested in this option as I am not sure that it is available to new arrivals, but instead only to students in their second year. |
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Big John Stud
Joined: 07 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: Re: Basic starter questions |
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[quote="Porlestone"]From what I understand is you need to have a 1-year working visa to work at english schools in Taiwan. Is this "owned" by the school in the same way as Korea, or is that more "lax"? If you get into a battle with the school are you pretty much doomed to have to leave Taiwan upon fallout?
I am also simultaneously very interested in studying Mandarin at a Taipei university with a good program. If I did the working visa thing first, either decided to quit a ways into it, or didn't get along with the employer, and then decided midway to pursue a university language program instead does Taiwan oppose that? (i.e. in Korea, once you fall out of your work visa, you pretty much are gone for the duration of remainder of visa unless your employer signs agreements giving you rights to have a new life in Korea). Thanks, will ask more questions but that's it for now.[/quote]
I was in Korea. I hated it there. I did have a fall out with my first employer, and another company hired me. I did have to leave the country just to return to get a new working visa, because I hadn't worked for the first employer for over three months. |
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