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How many times can you change schools on an E-2 visa?

 
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Illysook



Joined: 30 Jun 2008
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:07 am    Post subject: How many times can you change schools on an E-2 visa? Reply with quote
My first day at the new school didn't go so well and we don't like each other anymore. The recruiter says that he will find me a new job. I will stay with a friend for 2 weeks and if I don't find anything, I will probably go home. This probably means that I will go home as I think that I will need new documents, but the recruiter says that I can transfer everything a second time. Is this true?
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:12 am    Post subject: Re: How many times can you change schools on an E-2 visa? Reply with quote
Illysook wrote:
My first day at the new school didn't go so well and we don't like each other anymore. The recruiter says that he will find me a new job. I will stay with a friend for 2 weeks and if I don't find anything, I will probably go home. This probably means that I will go home as I think that I will need new documents, but the recruiter says that I can transfer everything a second time. Is this true?


No.

If you haven't submitted the FBI check with apostille and/or you haven't supplied a copy of your degree with an apostille (not the original) then you are limited to ONE change of status in 2011.

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GrasshopperKR



Joined: 14 Oct 2011
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Without further details I would have to say you gave up a little quick. Perhaps you should give it some more time, is this your first job teaching ESL? When I had my first job in Taiwan I hated my boss with a passion. Over time I learned how to get along and the stuff I hated about her was from the business end of things, not her personally.
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Illysook



Joined: 30 Jun 2008
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I submitted the FBI check with the apostille as well as an apostilled diploma in August, so do I get another chance? I could really use one. The situation was not salvagable. I tried and so did my recruiter.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Illysook wrote:
I submitted the FBI check with the apostille as well as an apostilled diploma in August, so do I get another chance? I could really use one. The situation was not salvagable. I tried and so did my recruiter.


If they have your documents on file then a transfer MAY be possible.
It will be up to the immigration officer at the time of the application to make the decision.
They are not required to allow a transfer if you have been employed for less than 6 months but they can allow it (case by case basis).
You will need a LOR to transfer.
If you can't get a LOR you will need to cancel your visa (usually a quick trip out of the country handing in your ARC on the way out) then begin the visa process again from scratch.

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Hokie21



Joined: 01 Mar 2011
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You lasted one day? Seriously? What the heck happened in one day that the work relationship is unable to be salvaged?? BTW good luck getting a LOR after that.
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The Floating World



Joined: 01 Oct 2011
Location: Here
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hokie21 wrote:
You lasted one day? Seriously? What the heck happened in one day that the work relationship is unable to be salvaged?? BTW good luck getting a LOR after that.


Not at all. I recently left a job after 2 weeks following a refusal to follow the managers instructions (to teach ten ele classes in one day 'freetalking' with no prep time nor materials) and a shouting match involving swear words after she got angry.

Got an LOR and visa transfer for my new job. In fact my new boss called immi and said there is a new 'one month grace period' for the transfer.

Will be going there today to dot the i's and cross the t's, so if that info turns out to be spurious I will write about it here.
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Dodge7



Joined: 21 Oct 2011
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
illy I am starting to think that the problem may be you.
Maybe you just have a strong personality? That's putting it rather nicely, or maybe you are just bad with human interaction??
I have NEVER in my work places that I work now and in the past had such a hard time working with others than I had to quit--and especially AFTER 1 DAY! Are you kidding me? 1 day?!
What happened?
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Zyzyfer



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hokie21 wrote:
You lasted one day? Seriously? What the heck happened in one day that the work relationship is unable to be salvaged?? BTW good luck getting a LOR after that.


+1

Not to mock your plight Illysook, but hah! What happened?
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The Floating World



Joined: 01 Oct 2011
Location: Here
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dodge7 wrote:
illy I am starting to think that the problem may be you.
Maybe you just have a strong personality? That's putting it rather nicely, or maybe you are just bad with human interaction??
I have NEVER in my work places that I work now and in the past had such a hard time working with others than I had to quit--and especially AFTER 1 DAY! Are you kidding me? 1 day?!
What happened?


You do realise of all the 7 billion ppl on the planet, it is not unusual for a lot of them to have completely differing experiences in life? You automatically accuse the op with no equal assumption of the possibility that the new employer might have been the person responsible?
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The Floating World



Joined: 01 Oct 2011
Location: Here
PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Floating World wrote:
Hokie21 wrote:
You lasted one day? Seriously? What the heck happened in one day that the work relationship is unable to be salvaged?? BTW good luck getting a LOR after that.


Not at all. I recently left a job after 2 weeks following a refusal to follow the managers instructions (to teach ten ele classes in one day 'freetalking' with no prep time nor materials) and a shouting match involving swear words after she got angry.

Got an LOR and visa transfer for my new job. In fact my new boss called immi and said there is