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brento1138 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004

Hi. I just heard from someone that you can no longer legally extend a contract for only 6 months. You see, I signed a contract for one full year. But I'd like to extend 6 months. And instead of ending it on January 6, 2006, I wanna stay till July 6. My director seems very happy about this, and didn't mention anything illegal about it. She said it was just a simple process.

I heard from my friend, however, that you will be 'blacklisted' or something, since your VISA is actually for one full year. He also said this is a new thing that immigration is doing. Can anyone confirm this? I really wanna stay at my school, so I can go back to Canada during the summer rather than the winter.

Anyone know if I can extend 6 months or what?? It seems kinda stupid if I can't! Just kinda makes no sense...

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

I extended my last E2 for an extra 3 months, I don't see that you would have any problems with extending it for 6 months. I just went to immigration with my school's director, filled in some paper work and they wrote something illegible on the back of my ARC and it was done.

brento1138 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

About a year ago. Sorry, not much help.

plattwaz · Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Location: <Write something dumb here>

I've never had a problem extending for a few months, but I've not tried to do it recently (last time 8 months ago, or so).

However, isn't another option to extend for a full year, as far as immigration is concerned, but have a seperate agreement with your school, on paper, that because the intention is actually only 6 months, a release letter will be given after your agreed-upon 6 months? I suppose there are some risks on that side if you dont' trust your employer, but I suppose you wouldn't be extening if you didn't trust your employer in the first place?