The working holiday visa is a term given to a permit for travel that enables a traveller to engage in employment whilst in another country.
A great number of the working holiday visas are given under exchange agreements between countries to support and encourage cultural exchange and travel between the respective countries’ citizens. There are, however, various restrictions on the working holiday visa.
The traveller with this type of visa is expected to be in possession of enough funds to use as he or she seeks employment in the visiting country. The working traveller is further limited to the employment types that he or she can hold and also the period that the travelling employment seeker can hold employment in the country.
Finally, the working holiday visa has an age restriction. The working holiday visa is intended to be used by young travellers. The usual age bracket is 18 to 30 years of age. This is a stimulating opportunity for young people to go out and experience living and working in a foreign country whilst evading the costly expenses that go with finding job sponsorship well in advance or participating in expensive exchange programmes between universities.
The pioneer participating countries to use the opportunities that the working holiday visa presented are Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zeeland. Moreover, in Japan, a working Holiday Maker Alumni association has been created and it offers seminars to orientate the Japanese holiday-working goer.
The countries that offer a working holiday visa are Argentina, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, Hong Kong, Norway, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Turkey, and South Korea.
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July 13th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Upon reading the wikipedia entry and other websites details on holiday working visas in Japan I seem to have come to the conclusion that Americans are not included in the list of foreigners able to apply for this kind of visa. Is there any way to qualify for this visa as an American? I am currently in Japan and plan to live here for years but have run up against some severe opposition to being sponsored for a work visa by schools who would hire me full time as an ESL teacher. Many prefer a work visa to already be in place since many schools are seemingly unwilling to have to be the one to sponsor a foreign teacher. I there is any advice on how to get any type of work visa first please let me know. Thank you very much.