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stiofan
Joined: 24 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: letter or release today (nov1st) new job (dec 1st)...ADVICE |
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what should I do, can I take the LOR to immi, get a 30 day tourist visa then hang about until dec 1st??
My diploma etc are all here in korea and my new uni transcripts will be here next week.
I have no other job lined up and if I dont get this one I will just return home. I will seriously appreciate any advice on this, thanks guys.... |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Your employer should go with you to immigration to release you from your E2. After that you have 2 weeks to leave the country.
If you can get a new E2 sorted in that time, do so and re-enter with it.
Otherwise, get your E2 annulled, exit korea, come back as a tourist, get your new E2 paperwork, then do the visa run again in time for Dec 1st. Looks like you will need a police clearance this time. Do you have one? |
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anyangoldboy
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Julius wrote: |
Your employer should go with you to immigration to release you from your E2. After that you have 2 weeks to leave the country.
If you can get a new E2 sorted in that time, do so and re-enter with it.
Otherwise, get your E2 annulled, exit korea, come back as a tourist, get your new E2 paperwork, then do the visa run again in time for Dec 1st. Looks like you will need a police clearance this time. Do you have one? |
It's changed. It's 30 days now when you go with your employer or that is what immigration told me.
Also you dont have to leave the country for a new visa if you are going from a hagwon to a public school or from a public school to a public school. But if you have already gone to immigration to get released from your contract you would have to leave and get a new visa. |
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Vicissitude
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Chef School
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You have a LOR but your E2 visa is not cancelled. That means you can stay as long as the current employer has not reported it to immigration. Once you leave Korea, your visa is finished (unless you have a multi-entry).
You can't get a tourist visa while you are in Korea. You'd have to do a visa run for that.
If your visa gets cancelled by your employer, you can apply for a 30 day extension to stay in Korea. I think the cost is 60,000 won. |
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stiofan
Joined: 24 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| thanks for the advice guys, muchus appreciatus.. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| anyangoldboy wrote: |
| Julius wrote: |
Your employer should go with you to immigration to release you from your E2. After that you have 2 weeks to leave the country.
If you can get a new E2 sorted in that time, do so and re-enter with it.
Otherwise, get your E2 annulled, exit korea, come back as a tourist, get your new E2 paperwork, then do the visa run again in time for Dec 1st. Looks like you will need a police clearance this time. Do you have one? |
It's changed. It's 30 days now when you go with your employer or that is what immigration told me.
Also you dont have to leave the country for a new visa if you are going from a hagwon to a public school or from a public school to a public school. But if you have already gone to immigration to get released from your contract you would have to leave and get a new visa. |
Maybe it has changed from 14 days or whatever it was to 30 days. I don't know. Anyway, it's just an extension. Immi has the power to give you more than what used to be something like 2 weeks, I guess.
But what's this hagown to public school/public school to public school nonsense? What difference does it make? An E2 is an E2. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
But what's this hagown to public school/public school to public school nonsense? What difference does it make? An E2 is an E2. |
You may think it's nonsense, but it's not. If you are going to a public school you don't need a visa run. If you are going to a national university you don't need a visa run. If you are going to a private university you might or might not.
I have no idea how this works 'on the books', but I know it to be a fact. I don't know what rule book they're using.. but they're using it. I changed from a public uni to a private and didn't need a visa run last year. I've met several people who switched to a public school who also didn't have to do one. I can't point you in the direction of any immigration laws, I'm just saying how it is in some circumstances. In short: Korean immigration laws regarding E2 visas are fukced, flexible, confusing and arbitrary. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
But what's this hagown to public school/public school to public school nonsense? What difference does it make? An E2 is an E2. |
You may think it's nonsense, but it's not. If you are going to a public school you don't need a visa run. If you are going to a national university you don't need a visa run. If you are going to a private university you might or might not.
I have no idea how this works 'on the books', but I know it to be a fact. I don't know what rule book they're using.. but they're using it. I changed from a public uni to a private and didn't need a visa run last year. I've met several people who switched to a public school who also didn't have to do one. I can't point you in the direction of any immigration laws, I'm just saying how it is in some circumstances. In short: Korean immigration laws regarding E2 visas are fukced, flexible, confusing and arbitrary. |
Has nothing to do with the type of school. You can switch from whatever institution to any other institution as long as your visa has not been cancelled.
If your ARC is good until Jan 31, 2008, you get released before that date from your current employer, your ARC is not cancelled and you're signed up with whatever other school, you can keep on going with the new school and extend to Jan 31, 2009 or a date before that.
Doesn't make a difference. It's all the same. Hagwon, univeristy, public school. There's no rule about what type of school is on your E2.
Whatever immi decides besides that is up to them, I guess. They're god. |
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