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[crazylemongirl]

I have my letter of release and a new job. But I'm not a 100% sure on the process of cancelling your e2. My employer, mucked up this on a former co-worker of mine and I want to avoid some of the problems he did.

As I understand it, she has to cancel the visa and then all I do is hand in my arc when I leave. Is there anyway to check that she's done it properly?

anyway if anyone has any experience in doing this, it would be great to hear from you.
thanks in advance,
clg

[Guest]

You can call and ask ....

But yes, there is a technicality in the process in which you are supposed to, by process, go to Immigration WITH your employer and he cancels your visa, cancels your contract and you turn in your ARC and thus receive your 2 week exit order. That's the proper way for a visa and your employment to be cancelled. It's rarely done that way; as in my case.

If you do not go Immigration with your employer you are then required to go to Immigration to turn in your ARC and obtain your exit order.

There is an incorrect assumption that you ONLY have 2 weeks to leave after your visa in canceled. The one loophole on that is as I stated above. If you go to Immigration to do your part on your own you then get your two weeks to do that process from the day your visa in canceled and then you obtain your two week exit order, so you could, in practice obtain 30 days to leave the country

[crazylemongirl]

I got someone to call and ask. apparently all I have to do is hand in my arc on depature.

but I can't re-enter the country. I have a second passport which i can travel on though.

[Guest]

That's why I'm specific on how I say things (or type them rather).

I say TECHNICALLY, LEGALLY, etc about how things occur. That is the proper process so that your visa and contract are cancelled in such a way to allow you to be legal to come back to get another visa and the like.

Yes, you can simply leave, there is no hindrance on that. You can go to the airport, say you're leaving, hand over your ARC, have your visa stamped as cancelled and you're off ....

The issue is with being proper to not impede a subsequent visa application process

[sadsac]

But yes, there is a technicality in the process in which you are supposed to, by process, go to Immigration WITH your employer and he cancels your visa, cancels your contract and you turn in your ARC and thus receive your 2 week exit order. That's the proper way for a visa and your employment to be cancelled. It's rarely done that way; as in my case.

The two week notification period is when the employer notifies immigration that you are no longer working for that institution. They are required to do this within 24 hours of you leaving. Most do not abide by this law and immigration is very lenient on policing it. If you have not done as is stated above, which is correct, then you just hand in you ARC when you leave. You do not need a second passport to re-enter, just come back in on your primary one. I know of an instance when an employer failed to advise immigartion and the teacher in question returned three times on the E2 visa and that particular individual, as well as the employer are in serious trouble with immigration.

[Guest]

Yes, I said the same thing. You however quoted me and didn't mention the fact that, or reply to the quote issue, in that the process is the technical requirement for your visa and contract to be cancelled appropriately to meet the technical requirements for being released and thus eligible for new employment/visa issuance. Turning your ARC, in and of itself, doesn't technically cancel your Visa so as to allow a new visa certificate

[blindsheep]

I've been following this thread and I just wanted to clarify something not mentioned or not understood by me. If you have not obtained a letter of release from your employer, may you still legally quit your job with sufficient notice (30 days?) and then be permitted to find legal work at another school in Korea?

Will you cancelling your E2 cause difficulties in you getting the next job?

[J.B. Clamence]

[Guest]

Sure, you can give notice and quit, and all the labor boards and legal people recommend you give 60 days notice ... but that in no way negates the need for a letter of release and cancellation of your contract with immigration ... it's required, period. If you don't get it then you are required to wait until your visa expires, e.g., the full one year term.

[sadsac]

Upon completion of my and my wife's tenure at our previous hogwan, we went to Ulsan immigration with the director of the institute and he completed all the necessary paperwork to cancel our E2's. We then handed in our ARC's and were issued an exit order. We handed those to immigration in Busan when we left for Japan. We did not obtain a letter of release and have not required a letter of release to secure our new positions. Immigration did not require them when our new director applied for our blue papers. Who knows what will happen?

[humanuspneumos]

I came back early once under another E-2 before the first expired (yes- I too handed in my card, bla, bla, bla).

I was pleasantly surprised that I got the confirmation in the first place and just continued on with no problems. It led me to believe that the argument of provincialism (each province deals with things differently) is true inspite of people talking about how the system is all tied together under one computer. Perhaps my next employer had friends in immigration.

[sadsac]

Lonelyontherok: please accept my apologies for failing to quote you when I used your information.

[J.B. Clamence]

[noelinkorea]

I am considering quitting my job in a few months. My question is, if I cancel my E2 visa can I get a study visa just as easily or will the original period of the work visa interfere with this? Has anyone had experience in changing from a work to a study visa?