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[Unposter]

According to the article, migrant workers can only change employers three times. That would be nice for E-2 visa holders, too. It would be like one get out of jail free card. Land a bad employer, you could get one more chance. Seems fair enough.

[earthquakez]

I'd say give Korean Immigration credit for attempting to balance out some of the difficulties they put E-2 visa holders through. For example we can now leave Korea without having to get a re-entry stamp, single or multiple, provided we come back within a year.

We only need to have our alien registration card which acts as a defacto re entry permit. That's proof Korean Immigration can look beyond revenue raising as they have undoubtedly lost money from this. Good for them, can't say the same of the UK govt who seek to extract money in as many ways as they can from everybody in the country whether citizen, resident or visitor.

The real thing holding back more developments towards greater security for E-2 ers in terms of longer visas like in Japan is the indisputable fact that public schools and hagwons are still recruting young, first time workers in any field to teach English in Korea.

No offence to you intended, especially the decent and dedicated young uns who not only want money but also care about how they earn that money, but as long as the under 30s with little to no full time/even longer hours part time job experience in the field of teaching or the English language continue to be recruited as the predominant group on E-2s, the Korean Govt/Immigration will never extend the visas to what they are in Japan (eg 3 yrs after the initial one) for NETS.

[PatrickGHBusan]

[CentralCali]

Here is a lesson the OP might wish to learn:

[TheUrbanMyth]