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[Seoul'n'Corea]

Sorry but this is new to me. I was told earlier this week that ALL SMOE NETs now need consent and approval from immigration for after school classes.
Can anyone verify this? Apparently, our king, JP at SMOE head office is telling some pretty big stories or the Korean govt just made changes to the rules again and is messing things up with EEP and other English programs after school this year.

Apparently we now have to go down to immigration and inform them with a co-teacher about what extra contract and where, regardless if it is within SMOE. ??? Funny I phoned immigration and there was no mention of this.

This is just nuts.
I wanted after school contacts but now looks like that won't happen.

[brento1138]

I give up! Where's the next plane outta this country!??

[afsjesse]

Forgive me if I'm misinterpret what you wrote.

All private classes are illegal on an E-2 visa unless you have permission from your employer and immigration. So, I don't see the big change here. Unless, you're you're saying that you need permission from immigration to do after-school classes in the school you work in, that is something new.

[Steve_Rogers2008]

for some reason, a massive game of "telephone" that went massively wrong came to mind.....

[fergalreid]

[Seoul'n'Corea]

Well, i am still waiting for the response from SMOE.
Seems like someone has messed up on their info.

pass the BS please!

[toonchoon]

they want you to teach extra classes, have them take care of the paperwork.

you're a foreign worker, invited to work here, so have them take care of paperwork. each school has admin personnel that should handle this.

[egrog1717]

[Xuanzang]

haha then I've been working illegally all these weeks. Sounds like Mr. Bling talking out of his piehole.

[Seoul'n'Corea]

[Seoulio]

I know the situation you are talking about Corea, but I dont think its exactly what you think.

I don't think its that you ned permission, I think its just that they are being more strict with the documentation.

My school came to me last week and told me that I MUST go down to immigration and update them on a secondary school workplace that I go to once a week so that there were no issues.

I kindly told them that I was an F2 visa holder and did not have to jump through such hoops.

So I do not think it's about approval as much as being anal about follow up documentation

Course I've been wrong before.

[schwa]

As a longtime epik teacher, heres my experience with this situation.

For years, my POE had an "understanding" with Immigration that the broadly worded contract enabled them to send their teachers anywhere officially sanctioned without express permission from immi. This worked fine & no one ever got busted, but immi decided it was against regulation.

So last year our schools were asked to submit a list of secondary workplaces for each teacher for immi's records. Nothing sinister, just abiding by the rules.

Afterschool classes at one's own main school should be totally unaffected.

[PatrickGHBusan]

Simply put, if the classes are in your school they fall under your regular contract work and perhaps are considered OT.

If the classes are in another school, you need permission from your employer and approval by immigration.

Private tutoring remains completely illegal on the E2.

[Swampthing500]

Could someone illuminate me as to the Jon Pak/JP hate?

[Seoul'n'Corea]