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[teachingld2004]

I havent seen this question before, and if its been answered, sorry.

I am getting a release letter dated July 29. This job has been a nightmare from day one. My new job starts August 29, so I have a much needed month breather. (no pay for a month is bad, but mentally it's great)

Here is the question. Do I just bring the release letter to the new job, and let them handle the rest, or does this present job have to go to immigration?

Thanks in advance.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

From everything I've gathered, you need to go to immigration, get your present visa cancelled by them, get an exit order, leave the country, and get another visa processed out of country.

[Zenpickle]

Funny you should ask this because I just got back from a grueling 6-hour day with Immigration regarding a similar issue.

My old school had me meet them at Immigration back in June to tell them that I no longer worked for them. In the meantime, I had been waiting and waiting and waiting for my college transcripts to arrive so we could start the visa process for my new school.

The representative from "Old School" told me to sit down after I gave the Immigration representative my passport. Fifteen minutes later, they gave me my two-week exit orders with my passport.

My transcripts finally arrived, and we turned in the paperwork for my visa right before the deadline. The trouble was that this was not good enough.

So we had our butts reamed by an Immigration boss for playing this close to the deadline and not leaving the country within two weeks. He then asked why I was so stupid to not get a one-month exit order instead. I told him that I had never heard of such a thing and that no one asked me. In fact, I was told to sit down away from the Immigration official by the representative from Old School.

This is where the irony sets in. In the end, the guy who screamed at us ended up screaming at the government official on the phone, defending me. He said, "This is a stupid law! Why can't we make an exception?"

He was still upset at me because I had put him in a bind.

**Listen to this carefully**

I was in trouble because I had shown up at Immigration to report myself and got myself a two-week exit order. If I had gotten a one-month exit order or had NOT SHOWN UP AT ALL (he actually said this), then I wouldn't be in trouble.

So if I tried to NOT follow the law in the first place, I would not be in trouble with the law.

We're having to start the visa application process all over again, and I now have until the end of August to get out of the country. The funny thing is that they cannot start processing it until I'm physically out of the country. Then they'll put it on fast track, and my school will send the paperwork to wherever I go.

So I guess I'll be spending a few days in Japan.