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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:41 pm Post subject: Will you travel more under the new visa regulations? |
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Under the new visa regulations those of us on E-2 visas will have ONE MONTH added to our stay after our yearly contract ends (which means free time to travel before re-signing or starting new job) and will no longer have to submit transcripts and no CBCs if one has not left the country for three months or more (which means no new documents needed from back home as long as vacation is two months and three weeks or shorter).
These visa regulation changes could seriously affect the travel habits of many of us. You?
I plan to make some three week trips between contracts and maybe fandangle a two-month vacation midcontract but not the whole summer vacation like I took in '08. |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:14 am Post subject: |
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Wow, it sounds like after so long, immigration and the Kovernment is listening to us.
Awesome. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:44 am Post subject: |
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Not sure I get what this means.
An extra month after your visa ends. Has nothing to do with if your job can afford you a month off, its purely procedural.
If you're changing jobs & not having to resubmit stuff, great. But its not like the govt is mandating a month off between contracts. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| An extra month after your visa ends. Has nothing to do with if your job can afford you a month off, its purely procedural. |
Indeed. If you work 10 straight years at the same public school and have little interest in travel then the new regulations will mean squat.
But if you change public schools and want to travel then it's possible for some to end in March at one job and start in April at another without having to re-submit a criminal record check nor needing transcripts any more.
And if you go from public school to hagwon or visa versa then you could milk the one-month period in the job search and start date negotiations.
For those of us in hagwons this might actually be an incentive to change hagwons or to negotiate breaks inbetween contracts. I've twice before taken months off between contracts but had the hassle of gathering new documents to face. |
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