| ▲ | tptacek a day ago |
| Lots of countries have temporary worker status. The requirement to leave the country to re-up it appears to be a distinctively American thing. |
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| ▲ | bigtoe416 a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I was recently in Malaysia on a digital nomad visa. When it expired I was required to leave the country and either wait for the renewal to go through or reenter on a tourist visa (and either not work or work illegally). So not distinctively American. |
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| ▲ | coderenegade a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's definitely not. I know Japan and Korea had a similar process when I was living there, and I was under the impression that most places operate this way. Your visa grants you right to temporarily stay in the country, and if you don't have a visa you have no right to be there. Sometimes there's a bridging visa to cover the gap, but a country isn't under any obligation to provide one. |
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| ▲ | jeeeb a day ago | parent | next [-] | | No. Japan certainly doesn’t. If you want to renew your visa you go apply at the local immigration department and they mail you your renewal notice a month or two later. No need to leave the country at all. | | |
| ▲ | coderenegade a day ago | parent [-] | | It was a long time ago, so I might have the details wrong. I suspect it may have been expats from Korea taking a short trip to Japan to renew their visa, or even folks switching the type of visa they were on. |
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| ▲ | autumnstwilight a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've renewed my visa in Japan a bunch of times, including changing work category or visa status, and never had to leave the country for it. It's not standard for working or student visas, though you would have to leave if you were switching from a tourist visa to a different category. | | |
| ▲ | coderenegade a day ago | parent [-] | | Maybe it was for switching visa types. It was almost 20 years ago, so I may have some of the details mixed up. |
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| ▲ | conductr a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| But my point is it’s a known factor up front, and it’s so they can (have the option of) getting you to leave without allowing you back in. The thinking is that if people had visas that expires or revoked, they just wouldn’t leave and enforcement would be difficult (we have a forceful ICE now, but not always). Having them leave first is by design even if unique. |
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| ▲ | EA-3167 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s fairly common in destinations for migration, less so elsewhere. |
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| ▲ | s1artibartfast a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Is extremely common in europe and asia |
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| ▲ | lefra a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I've known several people on visas in my european country. They don't need to go out of the country to apply for renewal. | |
| ▲ | tptacek a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | In which European countries? | | |
| ▲ | MandieD a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Certainly not Germany - I renewed mine at the city's immigration office, which was even helpful enough at one renewal to point out that I was likely eligible for a permanent residence permit and supplied the list of documents to bring back to apply for that. | |
| ▲ | haaz 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | All students on visas in UK have to leave the country if they want to change to another visa, often involves people either flying home or else getting a cheap flight to a Schengen country | |
| ▲ | s1artibartfast a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | All 29 countries in the Schengen Zone require exit to renew tourist visas Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, and most EU nations generally require non-EU citizens to return to their home country to change visa types. | | |
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