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[notjeremyjones]

I'm kinda new to this, and I don't have the time to sift through these forums to piece together the situation that I have from other posts, so here is my situation:

I am a 24 year old english teacher in Sangin-dong, Daegu at a GnB. I like my job, I like my coworkers, and I like the students. My only problems are my location (far from my practice room) and my boss (has done things such as neglected to obtain health insurance for me until 5 months after I got here, tried to get me to work at another campus without filling out the proper paperwork that could have gotten me fined 1mil won, and to a slightly lesser degree, put a holepunch to my college diploma).

My contract ends at the end of June. I am leaving for the United States for three weeks so that I can see my family. When I come back, my plan is to continue working at the same place for three months (until the end of october) and then switch over to a new place (I've spoken with the boss and I know the teacher I am replacing ) at the very beginning of November.


My problem is this: My current boss knows nothing about how to deal with renewing a visa or anything like that (I am the first E-2 visa he's ever had). I was told that I can simply renew it with a new contract at the same place, work for him for three months, have him write a letter of release and then I can switch over to the new school possibly getting a new visa from Japan.

At the moment, I'm having my friends and family in the US get my background checks and transcripts sent to me and am treating this as if I need a new visa just to work at the same place.

Can someone please help? My boss doesn't want to put forward too much effort and I would like to be able to come back with no troubles.

Thank you,
Z