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Whisper20/20 Junior Member Member # 5850	Posted October 28, 2002 02:59 AM Hi everyone! Thanks for answering my query on the TWES thing and I have told my friend about it and he sounds cool with it. The only thing is now that he might be taking a course in the UK as well-some kind of college course-with some work experience in a company which comes with it! (I think he wants to kill two birds here with one stone...) He's a graduate student, if you have't read my last query already, and he's just finished his university course. He has money to get here and back and plus he's TOEAFL trained and has enough money to live on out here because he's going to be tempoarily staying at my place. (TOEAFL- Test of English as A Foreign Language, I think it's American or something like that!) I heard he could do this on a working holidaymaker scheme for the Japanese. Is that right? Does he have to stay for the whole year as well or can he go after the course? (I think he just doesn't want to stay at my student dregs too long to catch anything!) I know this sounds like a continuation of my past query but I don't think so. Isn't a working holiday scheme different from a TWES work permit right? Please answer soom but I don't need a really quick answer - I know you're all busy! Many thanks again
Jet Li Junior Member Member # 5748	Posted October 28, 2002 07:18 AM You asked if a national of Japan would be eligible to come to the United Kingdom as part of the Working Holiday Scheme. NO - a person of this nationality is not eligible for entry under the 'working holidaymaker' scheme. For more information, consult the information leaflet - Guidance -Working Holidaymakers (INF15) People applying from Japan should make their application to the British mission in Tokyo. If you have any further questions, please contact Tokyo directly. -------------------------------------------- How do I qualify as a working holidaymaker? You qualify as a working holidaymaker if: - you are a commonwealth citizen, British Dependent Territories citizen or British Overseas citizen - you want to come to the UK for an extended holiday and intend to take some incidental employment - you are single or are married to a person who also qualifies as a working holidaymaker and you plan to take the working holiday together - you do not have any dependent children who are aged five years or over, or who will be five before you complete your holiday - your holiday ,and not work, is the main reason for your visit - you can support and accommodate yourself without help from public funds - you do not have any commitments which require a regular salary - you can pay for your onward journey - you plan to leave the UK at the end of your holiday
Whisper20/20 Junior Member Member # 5850	Posted October 28, 2002 09:05 AM Sorry, what I meant to say was the YOUTH EXCHANGE SCHEME not the WORKING HOLIDAY SCHEME (I read the wrong thing.) However, aren't both these schemes the same thing then?
Deleted Member Member # 128	Posted October 28, 2002 10:30 AM No, they're similar but they're not the same thing. Please refer to the link I gave you in your previous post. ALL the info regarding that scheme and its requirements is in there.
Whisper20/20 Junior Member Member # 5850	Posted October 29, 2002 02:55 AM Thanks for that!