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makemischief
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 Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:40 am Post subject: Changing from an E-2 to an E-1 visa |
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I'm changing to a job with an E-1 visa and wonder if anyone on here has gone through the process before?
I've read the government website's walkthrough...but I figure I'd get a clearer answer from those who've been through the procedure before.
Cheers~
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Tamada
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:05 am Post subject: |
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| I'm about to start the same process. PM me. Maybe we will be working at the same uni? |
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Trevor
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| I did it. It's really simple. They didn't even open my transcripts. They just looked at my M.A. diploma, nothing else. No criminal background check, no health check. |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:27 am Post subject: |
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I had to go to Japan. It took 2-3 days over there getting it processed. I liked Tokyo so much I stayed a week.
However, my case was particular. I had done a year at a Hagwon ending in December, and I was starting at my uni in March. My hagwon wanted me to teach for a month or so so I renewed my E2. So when I changed it to E1 the visa was just a month plus old.
Maybe that's why I had to go to Japan. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| Trevor wrote: |
| I did it. It's really simple. They didn't even open my transcripts. They just looked at my M.A. diploma, nothing else. No criminal background check, no health check. |
I wish I could do this so easily with an M.A. Immi didn't even care or want to see it for an E-2.
I guess being a superior professor automatically makes you have no criminal background and immune to AIDS, right makemichief? Similar to being married to a Korean or of Korean descent?
Good luck, MM. The immigration hotline is 1345 from a land line. |
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martinpil
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| Whats the difference between and E2 and E1 visa? |
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makemischief
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| I guess being a superior professor automatically makes you have no criminal background and immune to AIDS |
Yes it does. How did you know? |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| martinpil wrote: |
| Whats the difference between and E2 and E1 visa? |
E-1: Professor.
E-2: Foreign language teacher
Even if you are a "professor," (M.A. holder teaching real uni classes), don't expect an E-1. Immigration makes almost everyone get an E-2 if you teach in English or an English-related subject. Even if you aren't teaching ESL or EFL, immigration now wants all dirty foreigners get a CBC, AIDS test and drug test. Except kyopos, foreigners married to Koreans and makemichief. They are, once again, immune to evil. |
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fishy
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: |
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It depends.
Where I work, all of us have E-1's and we don't teach anything but English conversation and writing. Even the new people this March are getting E-1s. |
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makemischief
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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My new university has asked me to do this:
Leave the country and hand in my alien card.
They apply for an E1 the same day.
They get the visa issuance number in a few days and email it to me.
I go to the embassy overseas (where I will already be) and turn in the number for my visa.
While this would work I am sure, I was hoping to just get some sort of release letter from my current university (no worries getting that) and not have to leave the country till I got an issuance number. Is anyone familiar with doing it in a way other than what my new job has suggested?
My semester is done and I'm changing from an E2- to an E1.
Cheers for any ideas.
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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Congrats on your status raise makemischief 
I have a question:
Did you get a MA or have you gained the new professorship through experience at your previous workplace? And if you got an MA, was it an online degree? |
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makemischief
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| MA (MS Ed to be specific) through limited residency program (partially via distance) back in 2007. It'll be my fourth year at a university (and my fourth teaching all credit classes), but my first with an E-1. |
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michaelambling
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| makemischief wrote: |
| MA (MS Ed to be specific) through limited residency program (partially via distance) back in 2007. It'll be my fourth year at a university (and my fourth teaching all credit classes), but my first with an E-1. |
I'm starting my first year at a university and I have a Ph.D., but I still had to get the E-2. I'd love to know exactly what criteria they're using to determine which visa one has to get--or could the E-2 be cheaper for the employer? |
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makemischief
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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as long as you work at a uni, teach credit classes, and have a masters the school can choose to get an e-1.... but often for various structuring/payment reasons they choose to go the e-2 route.
given your thread here- http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=145357&highlight=, i am now curious what in the world they gave you a degree in. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| michaelambling wrote: |
| makemischief wrote: |
| MA (MS Ed to be specific) through limited residency program (partially via distance) back in 2007. It'll be my fourth year at a university (and my fourth teaching all credit classes), but my first with an E-1. |
I'm starting my first year at a university and I have a Ph.D., but I still had to get the E-2. I'd love to know exactly what criteria they're using to determine which visa one has to get--or could the E-2 be cheaper for the employer? |
I think it is easier for the uni to get an E2 than an E1. I have also heard that to get an E1, you have to be teaching content credit courses, not just conversation. |
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