First off, I’m a n00b, and I’m also a nervous nelly, so please forgive me for wanting just a quick nod or thumbs up that my simple plan isn’t retarded.
I’m a UK citizen, and am a native English speaker, with a degree, so I’m eligible to work as an English teacher.
Plan:
Buy return flexi/refundable ticket.
Turn up in Taiwan and use 90 visa-free entry. Say I’m here for general tourism if questioned.
Get (most of) money back on return journey.
Find job, get work permit, start working within 90 days.
Before 90 days are up, either do a visa run for another 90 days or apply for resident visa.
If this is basically sane, I’ll book my tickets
Thanks in advance for all your help, even if it’s just “Do it.” or “OK” or “Don’t do that it’s a bad idea!”
These are the leaky parts in your plan. If you can secure a work permit, why on earth would you want to work illegally and expose yourself to the risk of fines and deportation? Just apply for yhe resident visa as soon as you can do so.
Find job, get work permit, start working within 90 days.
Before 90 days are up, either do a visa run for another 90 days or apply for resident visa.
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These are the leaky parts in your plan. If you can secure a work permit, why on earth would you want to work illegally and expose yourself to the risk of fines and deportation? Just apply for yhe resident visa as soon as you can do so.[/quote]
That’s obviously what he intends to do. It’s just a matter of whether or not he will find a job within the 90 days.
Additionally you are legal to work once you have the work permit. getting the resident visa and ARC are just steps that you do afterwards in a timely fashion (before your 90 days are up…). There’s no reason to delay this though.
To speed up the process you can do your health check at any time. That will allow the school to apply for the work permit almost immediately instead of waiting for 2 extra weeks.
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Additionally you are legal to work once you have the work permit. getting the resident visa and ARC are just steps that you do afterwards in a timely fashion (before your 90 days are up…).[/quote]
Don’t forget – last I checked, you can’t get an ARC directly from a ‘landing-visa’ (aka visa-free entry). So be sure to apply for a visitor’s visa before coming here!
1st - landing visa and visa free entry are not the same thing.
2nd - teachers can go directly from visa free entry to visitor visa to resident visa to ARC without leaving the country. The new teacher (US) at my school just did this and it’s always been like this. For some reason it sounds like students cannot go from visa free to ARC w/o leaving the country. This hasn’t actually been verified as correct but I think this is one things that confuses this.
