{"id":82,"date":"2014-05-04T00:38:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2014-06-02T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T00:39:11","slug":"6-things-people-overlook-planning-work-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/6-things-people-overlook-planning-work-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things People Overlook When Planning to Work Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a few common items people tend to not think about when they are going abroad for work.<\/p>\n

Passport:<\/strong> Are you aware that passport processing may require from 8-12 weeks?<\/p>\n

Background Check:<\/strong> \u00a0Many of the jobs overseas require a federal criminal background which you can get from your local police department. \u00a0In the U.S., this process might be as long as 8-12 weeks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Medical Exam:<\/strong> \u00a0Before your departure, a complete physical exam is needed by nearly all Asian, Middle Eastern, and several European countries, and some may mandate TB and\/or HIV tests.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0Work Visa:<\/strong> Asian countries and several Eastern European countries require that work visas for teachers are processed in advance; this step may take up to 30 days or more.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tourist Visa:<\/strong> \u00a0Being allowed to enter Brazil, China, Russia and other specific countries requires the individual have a valid tourist visa to be acquired before hand, which can be as much as 30 days or more in some cases. It just depends what time of year you apply as certain times international travel is heaver than others.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Airline Tickets<\/strong>: \u00a0Reserving and paying far ahead of time nine times out of ten gets you the best prices on airfare. \u00a0The price is normally higher the more you wait or become indecisive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a few common items people tend to not think about when they are going abroad for work. Passport: Are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling-abroad","category-work-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploringabroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}