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Twimfy
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
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 Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: What should she do when her contract ends? |
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My girlfriend finishes her contract at the end of November but she wants to wait around until the end of january for me to finish so we can go traveling or whatever.
What options are available to her for the few months she'd be in Korea. Can short term work be picked up with relative ease and decent wages?
Also, what is to be done about her visa, is it possible to get an extension without a sponsor? And can a new employer offer to sponsor without the need of a visa run? |
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rebel_1812
Joined: 17 May 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| visas can be extended with the current employer. That is probably the easiest option. No place will go through the visa process for just a couple of months of labor. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:36 am Post subject: Re: What should she do when her contract ends? |
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| Twimfy wrote: |
My girlfriend finishes her contract at the end of November but she wants to wait around until the end of january for me to finish so we can go traveling or whatever.
What options are available to her for the few months she'd be in Korea. Can short term work be picked up with relative ease and decent wages?
Also, what is to be done about her visa, is it possible to get an extension without a sponsor? And can a new employer offer to sponsor without the need of a visa run? |
Finish her contract.
Leave the country for a day (take the boat to Japan on Saturday AM and return in the PM).
Return and get a 90 day tourist stamp. If she is Canadian she will get 6 months on her tourist stamp.
(IF she is American and only gets a 30 day stamp, she can pop into any immigration office, fill in an application, pay the 30k won fee and extend it out to 90 days).
IF she can get a LOR from her current employer she may be able to transfer to another employer (or just extend and stay where she is) without the need for a visa run BUT she will need things like a new CRC (assuming she did not submit one to immigration last year).
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Twimfy
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:25 am Post subject: |
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Ok thanks for the help so far. However I'm still a bit confused as to what she can do and how. So a few questions to clarify. (and she is canadian).
If she secures a letter of release from her employer. Which will be no problem. What steps must she then take? How does the current E2 visa get extended? Does she have to definitely leave and come back? If she applies for a CRC check in canada, can she do that from here and who does it have to be sent to to be checked?
example scenario: She finds a new job next week and wants to start as soon as her contract ends she has a LOR but no CRC check. What should she do asap? |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:54 am Post subject: |
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She's Canadian? 6 month tourist visa is NO PROBLEM.
Be smart and make sure she teaches legally if she decides to take a teaching job. If not, hope you are ready to financially support a girlfriend. That's a whole lotta love. Hope she's worth it. |
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NilesQ
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| im canadian and have lived in korea for 3 years on tourist visas. you can easily pick up short term jobs on worknplay that dont care about your visa status. she will probably make much more money doing it that way. just leave the country and upon re-entry, she will be given a 6 month tourist visa. the worst possible thing she could would be to try to do it all legally with her existing school. let the contract expire and be free to find a job elsewhere. her boss will probably extend her for a year and try to keep her fo another contract and make finding another job a pain in the ass. in my experience the best thing to do is finish the job and let them think you are going home, regardless of what you actually do. they tend to get offended/pissed off/crazy if you stay in country and dont recontract. i think you are at much greater chance of being caught working illeagally with a valid e2 moonlighting than you are of being caught working with no e2 at all. the e2 says "i am a teacher", so your excuse of im just here waiting for a friend or visiting doesnt hold water. also most people i know of who have been caught was as a result of friction with their boss or boss no wanting to pay airfare so he reports them |
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Twimfy
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| im canadian and have lived in korea for 3 years on tourist visas. you can easily pick up short term jobs on worknplay that dont care about your visa status. she will probably make much more money doing it that way. just leave the country and upon re-entry, she will be given a 6 month tourist visa. the worst possible thing she could would be to try to do it all legally with her existing school. let the contract expire and be free to find a job elsewhere. her boss will probably extend her for a year and try to keep her fo another contract and make finding another job a pain in the ass. in my experience the best thing to do is finish the job and let them think you are going home, regardless of what you actually do. they tend to get offended/pissed off/crazy if you stay in country and dont recontract. i think you are at much greater chance of being caught working illeagally with a valid e2 moonlighting than you are of being caught working with no e2 at all. the e2 says "i am a teacher", so your excuse of im just here waiting for a friend or visiting doesnt hold water. also most people i know of who have been caught was as a result of friction with their boss or boss no wanting to pay airfare so he reports them |
Sound advice, however her current hagwon don't want her to recontract so that doesn't really matter. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Twimfy wrote: |
Ok thanks for the help so far. However I'm still a bit confused as to what she can do and how. So a few questions to clarify. (and she is canadian).
If she secures a letter of release from her employer. Which will be no problem. What steps must she then take? How does the current E2 visa get extended? Does she have to definitely leave and come back? If she applies for a CRC check in canada, can she do that from here and who does it have to be sent to to be checked?
example scenario: She finds a new job next week and wants to start as soon as her contract ends she has a LOR but no CRC check. What should she do asap? |
She can get her CRC from here. I did it. If she gets on it right now, she'll have her CRC in plenty of time. She might also need 2 sealed university transcripts. She could just get those just in case. That doesn't take long for the university to send. Anyway, with all the right documents, she won't have to leave the country. She will most likely need a medical check which she can do in Korea. Either way, that's easily enough done.
For the CRC, she needs to e-mail someone, peferably a family member, a Word document with personal info such as eye color, date of birth, etc. (I can get back to you later on exactly what info she needs) and 2 scanned copies of photo ID. The person back home then needs to take it to the Commissioner of Oaths to swear that it's her. Easy. Then same person needs to go to IFS (International Fingerprint Services) with this document and pay 75 bucks or more for them to have it processed. Takes at the most 4 business days. IFS sends it somewhere. In my case, it was Charlottetown, PEI. Then it's sent back to IFS. The person back home can then send it, or IFS can, to you. How much you pay depends on how much time you have to receive it. I paid, or rather my employer paid, about 80 bucks for a 2-business day delivery. Once you have this criminal certificate, you go to the embassy and swear an affidavit that it's you. That cost me 75 bucks two or three months ago. Then you're set.
You don't even need fingerprints. Sending your fingerprints to the RCMP to have the whole thing processed will take much longer. The RCMP recognizes IFS as legitmate. |
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