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[ElleB]

Hello. I'm new to the Taiwan forum and have a few questions about the work situation there. If this topic has been addressed elsewhere, please direct me to the right place.

I am considering teaching in Taiwan next year because I want to live in a new place, it seems the potential to save money is high, and because I want to learn Mandarin Chinese. I currently teach in Japan and I've met a few teachers who had bad experiences in Taiwan and were kicked out of the country and are not allowed to return. My understanding is that this was some kind of visa trouble. Probably I do not have all the facts straight, so here are some questions:

1. Is it legal to teach in kindergartens? Is it legal to teach children in private language schools? I've been told that it isn't.

2. Is corruption high in Taiwan, and if so, what does this mean?

3. What kind of visa problems might I run into and how can I avoid them?

[BigWally]

[lou_la]

Regarding point one, although it is technically illegal to teach kindy, most of the people I know here teach a kindy class. Schools even openly advertise for kindy classes taught by foreigners. The way my employer 'gets around' this is to register kindy staff at a language school. But you still have to hide if the government man comes calling...

Most of the deportations I heard of happened when people were found working at schools that they weren't registered to. It's ok to work at more than one place, you just need to get the second place registered.