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[ladyfalcon]

So. According to my boss, despite the fact that I haven't gone anywhere or turned anything in, my visa stuff is on time. Or "in process," as she puts it. I do not know how this could be, but she told me not to worry, and agreed (I think) to call the labor office for me and plead my case.

As you can probably tell, it's hard to get a single straight answer from my boss. For one thing, she doesn't speak absolutely the best English, and for another, I get the impression that sometimes she makes stuff up as she goes along. Generally, I ask her the same questions two or three times, then try to extrapolate the average from the different answers she gives me. In any case, she seems unfussed about the possibility of me getting deported, so there's that.

She's really going to want to keep me, too, particularly once New York Colleague gives her two-week's notice in a few days.

While that's kind of sort of comforting, more news is coming through the expat community of deportations, and people leaving so as not to be deported. Our British and Australian friends are fine, what with not needing visas, but a lot of Americans here are going around scared. I'm just trying to keep my head on straight and looking forward to David coming in two weeks so as to keep my focus positive.

Erin

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[lostsailors.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it's like anything here, if you have a job an employer will do all the Visa work for you (if that's the sort of Visa you are operating on). This is what happened to one of So. Africa's friends. Maybe since starting there, they started up the work Visa process.

[ladyfalcon.livejournal.com]

This is totally the way it is, but that still doesn't explain how anything could be "in process" when I haven't actually turned anything in. Also, having my boss involved (owner of the small, tiny, hole-in-the-wall English school where I teach) is not comforting, because the one guy I know who actually did the jail/deportation dance, he worked for JCL, which is the single largest language school in Prague. Like, we have 6 teachers, they have 600. My dad advised me that then it's possibly something political causing the government to deport one of their teachers, teaching the company a lesson, or possibly that they're so big at this stage that they could give a shit if one employee gets shipped off, but either way it's worrisome.