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zizi
Joined: 01 Dec 2007
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: The nine month question |
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| The new E-2 visa regulations say you hve to have worked here for nine months before you're eligible to get a new visa without going home for a consulate interview. Is that for your current visa or for the time you've been here. I worked one year and went home for five months. I'm now back and I want to switch to a public school job, the hagwon I'm at has not been a good place to work. Anyone know about this? |
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traxxe
Joined: 21 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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I've also seen 10 months as the cutoff. I think on the Q&A portion of the immi site there was an answer stating it was ten months.
I'll be here just under ten months. I'm leaving two months early. It seems, if it is nine months... then I don't have to do a visa run which is great.
I just need to figure out how to get my VISA transferred. |
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zizi
Joined: 01 Dec 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| New job=new visa. The question is if we can get a new visa here before March 15. I want a PS job and from what I've read here they might have more pull with immigration. But who knows? I don't want to quit and have to fly back to the U.S. for an interview. I have all the necessary documents here. But if I have to wait for ten months it makes no sense to quit then. Might as well just get through the last two months for severance and airfare. |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:28 am Post subject: |
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| zizi wrote: |
| New job=new visa. |
Not necessarily. It's possible to apply for a change of workplace at Immigration, which basically transfers your visa. According to the new regulations, you can do this if you've been at your current employer for 10 months. The procedure for doing this is outlined in the reply to question #1656 on the Immigration website Q&A section. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, but if you change employers on the same sojourn, the same expiry date is in place. So if you've been with an employer for 10 months and change employers under the same sojourn, you're still going to have to extend your sojourn within the next two months with the new employer.
But that shouldn't be a problem if you can extend before March 15th. |
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