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[Toju]

I work in a public run high school. It is new and thus far everything has been above board and they are trying to run it as near to the book as they can.

Recently, one of the native English speakers left and a replacement was found. In the interim, a German teacher was hired who has been here for 10 years but is currently only here on a tourist visa.

He went to apply for his F2 as he is married to a Korean and they saw his start date on the contract and the date of his F2 application were two months different, so the German teacher was fined 1.5 million and the school was fined 2 million.

The application for the new English speaker started and then we got a phone call saying that he has a criminal record and they can't process his visa. he denied this vehemently and so my manager went to see them yetserday.

Their story - because of the German teacher, we have essentially broken the law and can't hire anyone on an E2 for a year, even though a different department hired him and he was actually trying to make himself legal.

However, because they know the school was very humble when they paid the fine, and because it is a new school and because it is a government run non-profit making school, they are considering the application again. Also, because the contract was signed before this German descrpancy, they are also going to reconsider.

However, how freaking retarded is that.

[Fishead soup]

If he's on an F-2-1 he's not required to submit a background check.
Does he have a criminal record in Korea

[Toju]

The German guy has been in and out of Korea and just kind of forgot to get his F2. I am not sure he fully understands the necessity of having a visa. He works in the German department of the school. The other guy, British, does not have an F2 as he is not married.

My take on it is that the school weren't totally on top of the visa situation as they are relatively new at it and the woman that dealt with it has recently left and the person who has taken over is certainly not on top of it all.

Genuine mistakes made, but hammered by immigration as a result. Also, it is stupid that the school has already paid the fines yet they can't employ someone else for a year.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Yes.

[bassexpander]

What you need to do is legally hire an F-2 (yeah, difficult) and thumb your nose at immigration.

[lhasa]

"Immigration is retarded"

Yes...Completely unpredictable...Even if you ask the right questions before diving in.

Question: After Korea, which country is easiest to save cash....Taiwan, Japan, China, etc.

[wylies99]

OP, your school is hiring Germans to teach English-ee and you think Immigration is shady?

[Hobophobic]

[moosehead]

[jaykimf]

It seems to me that in this case at least, immigration is being quite reasonable. I'd say it's the school and German teacher who are retarded. He's been teaching in Korea for 10 years and he still doesn't understand the necessity of a visa? How retarded is that? The school doesn't know that they have to get a visa before they put someone to work? Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and the fact that they put someone new in charge is even less of an excuse. The fact that he works in a different department is irrelevant. Its still the same school-employer-sponsor that broke the law. If the prescribed penalty for breaking the law is paying a fine and being barred from sponsoring another E2 visa for a year, then just paying the fine is just part of the penalty and not absolution from the other part of the penalty. It looks like immigration is going to make an exception to the prescribed penalty and allow the school to hire another E2 English teacher. So what are you complaining about? It seems Immigration is being quite reasonable. The retarded school and German teacher broke the law and got themselves into this mess entirely on their own.

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[moosehead]

[nate1983]

[jadarite]

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