Also I'm not entirely sure what the afternoon school kerfuffle was but as far as I know part of it was that some schools were illegally making teachers sign double contracts, and part of it was that immigration stopped letting E-2 teachers work for certain programs and told everyone to stop, but a lot of programs were still employing E-2 and trying to get away with it, and didn't. I'm not sure why or how they suddenly require F visas, or if it was a rule that always existed and was never enforced.





I'm still confused why people are bringing up kindergarten but I have seen rumors about it. Maybe people were hearing about the E-2/E-7 international school thing and were confusing it with all E-2 visas. There's a big difference between middle school students at a shady international school receiving nationally-approved curriculum education solely from someone with an arts degree, versus some kindergarteners growing marigolds in a paper cup.



Considering the massive numbers of kindy hagwons and E-2 teachers at them I don't see how a bunch of "raids" would go down without causing massive chaos. I'd like to think that immigration and the local hagwon certification boards (they do exist) would inform everyone about any rule changes, and hagwons would comply before signing new contracts. That's probably expecting too much from Asian rule of law though.