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[Zulethe]

I'm on an E-2 Visa and I know it's illegal to teach privates, but can't one teach anywhere as long as one has written permission from the employer?

I see these university summer camps offering jobs to E-2 holders as long as they have permission from their school.

If this is the case, what's the big deal about just asking your school for permission?

I've seen all these posts where people are surreptitiously doing privates (public school teachers) yet why don't they just get a permission letter from their boss?

I've been approached a number of times from people in my neighborhood asking me if I would tutor their children.

My co-teacher doesn't know the answer. He just tells me to do it and not tell anyone.

I'm not currently doing privates but I'd like to because I'm bored out of my mind.

thanks

[ekul]

Perhaps because the government can't get their grubby hands on the taxes most of the time.

[QbertP]

permission from your school is one part of it. The other arguably more important part is permission from immigration. Your visa and ARC are tied a specific workplace. Doing work elsewhere is a violation of this.

Should it be this way?
No.
Is it this way.
Yes.

Cheers.

[Rory_Calhoun27]

[nachoinkorea]

The only way you can legally add another workplace to your E-2 visa is if you have your visa sponsored by a private organization (like a hagwon).

If your visa is sponsored by a private organization, you can legally add a public organization to that visa (provided you have your visa sponsor's permission). This is how you can legally work at some hagwons and then pick up an after-school position.

However, you cannot do this vice-versa. By that, I mean if your visa is sponsored by a public organization (like a public school) you cannot add a private organization (like a hagwon) to your visa. Also, adding public to public or private to private is a no-no.

Finally, the good thing about this is that you can add any public organization, not just a school, as long as you are teaching. For example, my visa is privately sponsored but I also do a lot of radio work here in Seoul. These radio stations are gov. run, so I just added them to my visa and now everything is nice and legit.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Zulethe]

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I'm talking about a regular joe blow on the street, not an institution.

Furthermore, if I get written permission from my school, doesn't that take the culpability off of my shoulders, should I get caught doing something "illegal" if it is illegal, since my school is the one that gave me written permission?

I doubt I'm going to find the answer here but I thought I'd give it a shot.

[nachoinkorea]

Of course there are plenty of people working at more than one public school, and there are even more people working at more than one hagwon. But is it legal? No. Have they actually gotten written permission from their visa sponsor, signed a contract with the other job, and gone to Immigration and legally added it to the back of their ARC. I highly doubt it.

You are right that for Immigration a lot of stuff depends on the whim of which Immigration officer you are talking to that day, but this is not one of them. You cannot legally add public to public or private to private. If it's not on the back of your ARC it is not legit.

[Snowflake]

[quote="Zulethe"]^
I'm talking about a regular joe blow on the street, not an institution.

Furthermore, if I get written permission from my school, doesn't that take the culpability off of my shoulders, should I get caught doing something "illegal" if it is illegal, since my school is the one that gave me written permission?

I doubt I'm going to find the answer here but I thought I'd give it a shot.[/quote]

From what I understand the issue is with immigration not your school as such - you need to take documentation for the additional place of work (contract, business number etc) to immigration to have it legally "added" to your E2. So that would exclude teaching from your (or someone else's) home.

[3MB]

[gazz]

If you work for EPIK the Regional office 'owns' you

You are then pimped out to a school. The Regional office has the right to send you to one, two or three schools (and this is legal).

As for any other type of work, even if free you must get permission in writing from your POE (and maybe your school).

Technically this even includes stuff like working for free in a soup kitchen, planting tree ect ect.

As for paid seperate work, I imagine that is a no go for EPIK people anyway!

[Young FRANKenstein]

[oskinny1]

[cdninkorea]

As someone who has had a lot of part time teaching jobs legally on an E2, I have something to contribute:

1. In order to work at another institution, it cannot be a private institution (e.g. public school, university sponsored camp, etc. are okay).
2. You must have permission from your visa sponsor and get it approved by Immigration.
3. Other regulations: no part time job can be for more hours than your primary job, nor can it pay more. Furthermore, only two part time jobs may be added to the visa.

[Zulethe]

Can someone reference me a site where I can see this in writing. Has this information been past down through the hallowed pages of Dave's or has someone actually seen the regulation somewhere?

It'd be really nice to be able to actually see a regulation where everything is written in black and white.