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mysteriousdeltarays

My school recently closed due to bankruptcy. My visa hasn't been canceled. My understanding is that I can just change the visa to another school. I have the form.

My question is does this have to be a school using the same immigration office?

There is nothing I can find on efl-law about this. A search here merely produced the usual babble.

This is a serious question, so please no flippant answers. I'm already flipped out enough as it is.

Freezer Burn · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Busan

You will have to look more into it, but my understanding is the Director of your school sponsors your visa, so if he doesn't have a job for you anymore you will have to be released and take an exit order then find a new job and get a enw visa.

Good Luck

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

mysteriousdeltarays · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:11 am Post subject: bankruptcy

Yes, that's my understanding as well. When was this incidently? Are you in Daejeon right now! If so P.M. any jobs you know of please!!!

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

For privacy's sake I'd rather not say where I worked previously, and where I switched halfway through the visa (I had issues with at least one of the schools), but my main point is that you need not restrict yourself to switching visas between schools covered by the same immigration office/area.

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

I feel for you....this same thing happened to me awhile back. My director was the biggest a**hole as he took off with my paycheck and went into hiding. Unscrupulous backwards bas*ard.

Anyway, to the OP, proper procedure is to go to the same immigration where you got your Alien card...IMMEDIATELY. More than likely, your boss will have to sign some type of form to cancel his sponsership on you (I had to do this). Then immigration will most likely give you an exit order and you'll have to leave the country within 14 days. Just go to Japan and come back on a tourist visa or, if you're lucky and you get another job and blue form quickly, go to Japan and come back on a new E-2. But I think mostly likely you'll have to leave the country. I don't think you can change employment without having to leave the country (unless you have a f-2 visa). Immigration will tell you.....go to them first and go by what they say ONLY...not what your potential new employer would tell you because they either lie or are completely clueless about immigration's rules.

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

canuck in Ansan · Joined: 27 Jul 2005

well I decided to dig up an old thread here instead of starting a new one, since I may be in the same situation. (well, it's either paranoia, or being prepared, either way I'd rather know in case it happens)
So if your school goes bankrupt, or even if the don't and you have to be let go for financial reasons, and you get a transfer of your visa to another employer (etc etc)... if all that happens, (here's my question:)then with your new employer, do you have to start a whole year contract, or do you finish the remainder of the time from your work visa?

ontheway · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:

Hello Canuck in Ansan,

I did this transfer thing years ago. I got a letter from my financially failing employer, she was quite helpful and sorry. I was transferred only for the time remaining under the old contract. My visa expiration date remained the same. I had 7 months remaining. After that, I was able to do a 12 month extension at the new job. No visa run was required either to change employers, nor to extend with the new employer.