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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:37 am Post subject: changing jobs, immigration problems |
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just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is having huge problems with Seoul immigration in regards to changing jobs. He is changing univs and immigration wont process his new visa until his contract with his old univ is finished. No letter of release from his old school saying "X's contract will be finished on Y date from which he will be released..." that most of us have gotten when we've changed jobs at the end of our contracts. Immigration said this is a new policy that they implmented in the past 6 months. If he wanted to get his new visa processed on time to start his new job, he would of had to actually quit in Jan and not get a Feb paycheck etc.. Hes moving from one top univ to another
Has anybody heard of this happening?
If its true then again Korea has shot itself in the foot in becoming the "hub of asia" |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: Re: changing jobs, immigration problems |
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| hogwonguy1979 wrote: |
| Immigration said this is a new policy that they implmented in the past 6 months. |
If that's true, then that's that. Finish the contract, extend the visa 30 days, and sit and wiat while they drag their ass granting the new visa. Looks like the new contract won't be started until a few weeks late. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Basically his contract is not finished yet but he hasn't received a letter of release and he wants to work somewhere else...
I thought it was standard procedure not to issue a new visa until the other contract is finished...not a new 6 month thing...
Immigration is just following the law that all of us here are pretty aware of. Feel sorry for your friend but sounds like he and his university are much more at fault than immigration is.... |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
Basically his contract is not finished yet but he hasn't received a letter of release and he wants to work somewhere else...
I thought it was standard procedure not to issue a new visa until the other contract is finished...not a new 6 month thing...
Immigration is just following the law that all of us here are pretty aware of. Feel sorry for your friend but sounds like he and his university are much more at fault than immigration is.... |
no you dont get it, every time most of us have changed jobs at the end of a contract (Feb 2 we've been able to put the paperwork for the new visa through in say Jan with a letter from our old job that we would be done on Feb 28 and get the "new" visa before the old one expired meaning we'd get Febs paycheck etc. The past 3 jobs I've had my new visa and reentered the country on it a week 10 days before my old contract expired.
Now you have to be done and not be employed for immigration to start the paperwork. My friend would had to leave the country in Jan and give up his Feb paycheck if he wanted his new work visa processed. Now he has to leave the country and either come back on a tourist visa and work illegally while they process it or wait outside of the country for it
i'm sure 90% of us who have been here a while have done this. This is a new hassle for people who just want to move to a new job when their contracts are done |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:33 am Post subject: |
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I see what you mean now...
Maybe someone feom the new university needs to give immigration a little bit of an incentive to get it rolling quicker...
Worst case scenario: take a vacation for a little while. might be good to recharge the batteries in the long term.... |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
I see what you mean now...
Maybe someone feom the new university needs to give immigration a little bit of an incentive to get it rolling quicker...
Worst case scenario: take a vacation for a little while. might be good to recharge the batteries in the long term.... |
ok, worst thing is this is a top univ not one of the many moneyversities here.
at least the new univ is being wonderful to him during this whole mess |
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jellobean
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:58 am Post subject: |
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| I just went from a public school to a college... One contract ended on the 28th, the other started on the 1st.... I got a release letter from the public school on the 27th and went in that day and got the new visa approved... I was done with work though... I would say that worse case scenario would be to get a release letter dated the 28th and go in that day and process the change.... He'd lose one day of pay, but it would work... |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:04 am Post subject: |
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In the past, I went in with a new contract in early March but dated a week or so later. That gave a bit of time for the VISA to process. The uni paid me the same and Immigration was happy because I "didn't start working, yet."  This is a creative solution for those with an F-2 Visa. |
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Kimchieluver
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| Harpeau wrote: |
| In the past, I went in with a new contract in early March but dated a week or so later. That gave a bit of time for the VISA to process. The uni paid me the same and Immigration was happy because I "didn't start working, yet." This is a creative solution for those with an F-2 Visa. |
F2s don't have to declare their working status to immigration anymore. |
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