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[mr. positive]

I'm sure this issue has been addressed in triplicate somewhere, but if someone wouldn't mind giving me the lowdown on this issue without ragging on me for not wanting to sift through the 38-page sticky on E- guidelines, I'd really appreciate it.

If a teacher is currently in Korean on an E-2 visa, what must a) the teacher and b) the teacher's new school do in order for the student to get an E-2 from the new school?

My school would like to hire a full-time native speaker (I'm a part-timer there myself) and has never had a full-time native speaker teacher there before, so my boss has no idea what to do. Many thanks in advance![/b]

[polonius]

[mr. positive]

Polonius,

Thank you for your response, and to clarify the situation:

My school is looking to hire an instructor on an E-2 who is finishing a one-year contract at the end of February. My school would like to assume sponsorship of said instructor for his/her E-2 visa after the instructor's current contract is up. How would we go about assuming the instructor's E-2 sponsorship with regard to the new regulations?

[polonius]

I have seen it done before, where a teacher finishes 12 months at a school, my school to be specific, and his visa was transferred over to another school. I had to issue him a letter of release, even though his last working day with us was the 24th, and his visa ended on the 26th. He didn't need to do a visa run. However, after that same teacher quit his new school after 1 month, and wanted to go to another school, he did need to go on a visa run, as he hadn't worked at his previous school for for more than 9 months.

You would be best to have your director call immigration and find out the exact details, even though you could get 5 different responses depending on whom you speak to.

Here is what a letter of release looks like, just copy and paste it on a word file. Hope this helps.

LETTER OF RELEASE

Letter of Consent to Release Foreign English Teacher

Name of Teacher:

Nationality:

Passport No.:

Address:

Telephone No.:


The above-person has been working at our school/academy from ______________to ____________________, in the position of Foreign English teacher. We hereby give our consent to the transfer of said person to work for another English school/academy.


Dated:

Name of English Academy:

Address of School:

_______________________________
Representative


SEAL

_____________________________________________________________

외국인 영어강사의 양도 동의서

선생님 이름:

국적:

여권번호:

주소:

전화번호:

위의 사람은 저희 학원에서 부터 까지 영어 강사로
이 사람이 다른 영어 학원이나 학교에서 일 할 수 있다고 승인 합니다.

날짜:

영어학원 상호명
영어학원 주소


대표자

/도장/

[Ut videam]

You're not far off about the triplicate, mr. positive: this is the third time I've posted this information in the last 2 days. Nevertheless...

Korea Immigration Service website, Q&A, Question #1673 "Keep same E-2 but change jobs":

[hagwonnewbie]

so my visa expires march 13 and my contract finishes on march 1. I can transfer to another school within that 2 week period, but I will still need to extend my my visa with that new school. Do you think it is feasible to make all this happen in 12 days? I'll have to make 2 trips to the immigration office. Do you think this can be done?

[Ut videam]

[CP]

My contract and visa finish March 20th, both on the same day. I want to take a job March 21st. What's the process? Am I doing a new visa or can that one just be transferred?

[brandon adams]

Polonius,

You state that a teacher must have completed at least 9 months with the current employer prior to beeing able to renew or change employers.

My question: isn't it 10 months???

Please advise.

Thanks

[polonius]