Korean Job Discussion Forums

mithridates · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 1:15 am Post subject:

That sounds like a good analogy at first but then again, you don't have mothers asking you to help them steal cars for their children, or people you meet giving you their card and asking them to perform a little grand theft auto for them.

Homer · Guest

Making the E-2 tougher to get is a good idea if it is backed up by other measures to root out and/or prevent/eliminate illegal teaching.

Yesterday · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 3:01 am Post subject: Sorry -

Sorry - guys - i didn't want people to argue about this topic -

I did post the topic in good faith - in order to educate/inform people about the new law -

the last thing i wish for is for teachers who are finishing contracts etc - to apply for a new job - and then be hindered by problems - when they are told they have to have the transcripts in unopened - stamped (etc etc) envelopes - which could cause a hassle or just delay their job application for a few weeks - therefore - causing them to NOT GET the job they are applying for.....

NOW I realise this is a STUPID new law - and maybe it will be reversed/scratched in a few months - but just until then.....

if your contract is almost up....

and you're thinking about staying on here... at a different school (etc)

order/etc your new transcripts now... it will save you problems later - at the job interview or at immigration....

sorry i didn't provide you with a web site to confirm what I originally posted... but then HEY - does everyone have to have proof/evidence everytime they say something?

However - It is published on the "Meil Economic Newspaper" website - if anyone knows that website - and can find it..........

Anyway - just get your new "transcripts" ordered if your thinking of changing schools and staying on here -

and please don't argue about whether its a good or bad thing - its the new RULE - so accept it like foreigners here accept many things thrown at us each day - and just take steps to be ready.........

desultude · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 4:10 am Post subject:

I keep a couple of sealed transcripts on hand, along with "official" degrees. Many jobs (unis in particular) require them. They aren't really expensive. Official transcripts come from my office in a sealed envelope with a stamped piece of tape over the flap.

Keep a file with extras of all of your documents- then you won't be caught with a problem.

I think the real question is whether they will ever check them. For all hogwan teachers, this would take new employees dedicated to this task alone. Not likely.

dodgybarnet · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:33 am Post subject:

Godammit! Do you know how farking hard is was for me to get me transcripts and stuff the first time????

Edinburgh University doesn't supply this stuff easily and it's only a photocopy anyway. Even an 8yr old korean in a PC Bang could make a better looking document. Maybe it's only Scottish Universities, but I think this might be an issue for all Brits.

Stupid regulations - just an knee-jerk reaction by the law courts.

harryh · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: south of Seoul

paperbag princess · Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Location: veggie hell

mcgill seals and stamps theirs and you can order as many as you want, though it is a good idea to get them sent to you parents first as they charge a lot to send them overseas.

i do think that the whole e2 visa process needs to be overhauled though.

jazblanc77 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004

Could you post a link that says that this is the way it is going to be? Did you read it somewhere... a newspaper maybe? Why haven't more of us heard about it?

I don't mean to be skeptical but, this is probably just your director trying to satisfy his own curiousities and the parants' demands, as a result of the SBS scandal. Too many times. I've been told about the rules at the immigration, tax, education, and other offices, by my director, only to find out that he was trying to jerk me around, again, when I contacted the appropriate office myself and got the real scoop.

peemil · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Koowoompa

Is this for those renewing their visas?

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

skimilk · Joined: 18 Mar 2005

Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

I don't think it's a big deal. My university supplies them for $4.00 Cdn. per copy. If yours doesn't, you obviously went to a crap school and should be shot in a football stadium.

tomwaits · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Location: PC Bong

If you have a credit card you can pay by fax and have transcripts here in 2-3 days. I also thought they were always sealed---sort of the point of them.

Only different thing here is the contact number. What I wonder is this/ / ?
A fake degree can come with fake papers and a fake verification number. Will the scholars at Immigration figure this out.?

my manager claims Imm think half the degrees are fake which seems ridiculous. Anyway not for me to flaunt the law but.......temping seems a better life here than spending a year in some of these abysmal schools/

jazblanc77 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004