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Trikeboy
Joined: 13 Nov 2009
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 Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:09 pm Post subject: Staying an extra year |
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I have agreed to stay with my academy for a second year and have been talking to my employer about what to do. I have been given conflicting information from what I have read elsewhere. He tells me that I will need to do a visa run to Japan before my contract expires at the end of February. Do I have to do this if I am staying in the same school? Is it not possible to simply extend my visa to cover another year?
Also, I have spoken to him about my contract which clearly states that at the end of the contract I will be paid my air fair home. Since I am not going home at the end of the contract what rights do I have to that money? My employer is telling me I should use it to pay for the visa run to Japan. Is this a normal thing. I have been in Korea before but left at the end of the contract. I am British if that makes any difference. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: Staying an extra year |
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| Trikeboy wrote: |
I have agreed to stay with my academy for a second year and have been talking to my employer about what to do. I have been given conflicting information from what I have read elsewhere. He tells me that I will need to do a visa run to Japan before my contract expires at the end of February. Do I have to do this if I am staying in the same school? Is it not possible to simply extend my visa to cover another year?
Also, I have spoken to him about my contract which clearly states that at the end of the contract I will be paid my air fair home. Since I am not going home at the end of the contract what rights do I have to that money? My employer is telling me I should use it to pay for the visa run to Japan. Is this a normal thing. I have been in Korea before but left at the end of the contract. I am British if that makes any difference. |
If you are staying at the same employer and you have an E2 you do NOT need to do a visa run.
You can do a simple extension of your status of sojourn at immigration.
You will need:
your ARC
your passport
your new contract
an application form
30k won application fee
letter of guarantee (sponsorship form) from the employer
copy of the employers business registration
AS to the airfare. It is a contractual matter. It sounds like he should pay it out and you can (re)negotiate your airfare for your next contract.
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Trikeboy
Joined: 13 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| ARC is Alien registration card right? |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| Trikeboy wrote: |
| ARC is Alien registration card right? |
yes, right. |
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natalia930
Joined: 02 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:25 pm Post subject: Re: Staying an extra year |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
If you are staying at the same employer and you have an E2 you do NOT need to do a visa run.
You can do a simple extension of your status of sojourn at immigration.
You will need:
your ARC
your passport
your new contract
an application form
30k won application fee
letter of guarantee (sponsorship form) from the employer
copy of the employers business registration
AS to the airfare. It is a contractual matter. It sounds like he should pay it out and you can (re)negotiate your airfare for your next contract.
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But if you started last year (2010), don't you also need to get your FBI check -and where does that fit into that list? (Does it go to immi with you with all these other things?) |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: Staying an extra year |
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| natalia930 wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
If you are staying at the same employer and you have an E2 you do NOT need to do a visa run.
You can do a simple extension of your status of sojourn at immigration.
You will need:
your ARC
your passport
your new contract
an application form
30k won application fee
letter of guarantee (sponsorship form) from the employer
copy of the employers business registration
AS to the airfare. It is a contractual matter. It sounds like he should pay it out and you can (re)negotiate your airfare for your next contract.
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But if you started last year (2010), don't you also need to get your FBI check -and where does that fit into that list? (Does it go to immi with you with all these other things?) |
If they have one on file = no.
If they don't = yes.
If you are not American = no.
if you are American = yes.
If you don't have it they will allow you time to get it.
The same with your degree. If you used an original rather than a copy with apostille then you will have time to get the required documents.
They won't cancel your E2 and send you away because you don't have one now but you will need to get them.
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southernman
Joined: 15 Jan 2010
Location: On the mainland again
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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I extended for a year at my old Hagwon as well.
My boss just paid the cash equivalent to a ticket home, it sounds like yours is going to as well which is good.
ARC extension is very easy as has been said |
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