TEFL Course for Teaching English in Chile, Ofqual Level 5

No. SERMIG says people on a Permanencia Transitoria permit may not carry out paid activities. That visitor permit runs for up to 90 days and can be extended once for another 90. To be paid by a school, you need a Residencia Temporal permit for lawful remunerated activities, which is available to foreigners who already have an employer in Chile or who have accepted a formal job offer from a person or company there.

Gather a passport with a year or more of validity, your employment contract, a recent color photo with a white background and proof that your employer has the liquidity to hire you. Applicants over 18 add a criminal record certificate, issued within the last 60 days, from their home country or wherever they lived during the past five years. Any foreign document must be apostilled or legalized, and everything is uploaded as a PDF.

In most cases, yes. SERMIG requires the request to be made from abroad on its Portal de Trámites Digitales, where you sign in with a SERMIG account or ClaveÚnica. Someone already in the country on a Permanencia Transitoria permit usually cannot apply for residence, apart from listed exceptions such as a family tie to a Chilean or a permanent resident. That makes it worth securing a teaching job before you travel to Chile.

Up to two years when the permit rests on an employment relationship, and you can extend it for two more while you keep doing lawful paid work. A formal job offer follows a shorter track: SERMIG grants 90 days, and within 45 calendar days of entry you hand in a notarized contract copy along with proof it was registered electronically, which extends the permit for one year. If no contract follows, the permit lapses and you have to depart.

Choose by how much you want to show an employer. The 120 Hour Advanced TEFL Course is where most people begin, and it includes lifetime job assistance. The 180 hour Level 5 TEFL Diploma, Ofqual 610/1571/4, gives a school a regulated Highfield Qualifications award it can verify. The 310 Hour Hybrid Level 5 Advanced TEFL Diploma, Ofqual 610/1573/8, goes further with extra modules and 10 hours of live online teaching practice.