Oops! Advice on Visa please!

Option 1:

Tell your school, tell them you made a mistake and let them sort it with imigration. Likely it will cost some money to fiex but is probably not the end of the world.

Option 2:

Quit the school, tell them the visa was canceled and you are done working. This will require that you get a letter of release before you can work at another school. They will likely not give you one until you pay back the fees that it cost them to employ you.

 

 

LOR is a sticky situation. The rule is, get one. I have heard it both ways from people who have not needed it and others who have. I needed it the one time I went through all this. My boss and I had no hard feelings so it was fine. 

 

Good luck~

Re-entry permits haven't been necessary for over a year and a half. I've left and returned multiple times with no trouble (after asking at the immigration office at the airport soon after the change). If your work visa is canceled when you leave, it's because you've told them that you aren't coming back. They do ask, and you need to make sure they listen to your answer. Had one dumbass start to cancel my visa because he didn't bother to listen to my answer when I said, "Yes, I am coming back!"

I'm a British, but nationality makes no difference now since re-entry visas are no longer necessary, as Crudler said. Still kind of weird that the immigration guy said your visa would be cancelled.

Everytime I leave I hand my passport and ARC over and these days I don't even get asked any questions, in fact on my last trip they said showing my ARC wasn't necessary as they had all the details on the computer. I do work in a university however, so maybe they presume I wouldn't want to leave!

 

Your embassy cannot really help you.

 

You need to go to Korean immigration, however without a sponsor for a new job,they probably won't be much help either.  Whatever happens do not tell immigration you have been working for this last week.

 

I was reading somewhere that consular interviews were being dropped and there are no hard and fast rules, however usually a first E2 requires you to apply from your home country if your first was cancelled it doesn't count.  I worked with someone who had to go to the UK for the first time in his life to get an E2 as he applied on his UK passport, the kicker was he was already here.

 

Time is not your friend here, it has already been too long. Your options are:

1. Work illegally here, catching the ferry to Japan every 90 days, but when your boss finds out you are sans visa, good luck getting paid and if you are caught you will be in trouble;
2. Tell your boss about your mistake, would have been better 1 week ago, today is the last chance and either get an LOR or have them sort out immigration for you;
3. Apply for another job produce all your documents again (I doubt they will accept scans BTW) and hope that you can get the visa in Japan;
4. If you have to return to the UK to get a visa, apply for a job in Japan, China or Taiwan;
5. Go home;
6. Keep posting on here without doing anything to fix your situation, you don't know who we are.

 

You have messed up, no shame there, we all have, but now you need to deal with it.

Good luck