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Squid · Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Location: Sunny Anyang

F2 holder here.
The advice before is sound, just don't forget to mention to any prospective Korean employer the saving they make not sending you on a visa run... just to rub it in.

Squiddly diddly

Mr. Pink · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: China

F-2 visa works like this:

It saves you from having to make trips to Japan everytime you want to change your visa type.

If you aren't working, the F2 legally allows you to stay in the country, yet you have to continue renewing the F2 visa.

IF you take a teaching job, you bring a special paper to immigration, plus a few other papers, like a copy of the Korean family register, and what they essentially do is add on E-2 to your F2 visa, which means they registered you as working at a specific place. If you quit or get fired, again you don't leave the country, you go back to immigration and get your F2 restored.

The part I am unsure of is if you can engage in another E2 if you get fired, as it never happened to me or anyone I know of.

Another thing is the F2 gets renewed regardless of E2 or whatever else you have, and it's renewed every year. So if you do take an E2, it could end up costing you a lot in visa costs, but still cheaper than a run to Japan.

Kalhoun · Joined: 30 May 2003 Location: Land of the midnight noise!

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 2:27 am Post subject:

I didn't bother reading the replies...I hope this helps, and sorry if everything has been explained.

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=4842&highlight=ryst

Shoosh,

Ryst

taejonguy · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Daejeon, Korea

All of this is true even without an F-2 Visa...I have an E-2, have been married for 4 years and have all the same rights and privledges as those listed below. I work in a company and have just be too lazy to change my Visa status as there has been no need. My job has slowly been evolving away from teaching however and it looks like it will be totally eliminated with a transfer to the Overseas Projects Dept next month...So, I guess it means a new Visa will be in order. Time to change! I hope the Immigration guys here in Daejeon have a clue... Rolling Eyes

By the way, my tax refund was over W500,000 last year.

bourquetheman · Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Suwon

One of my co-workers who worked with me at my university was on an F2-1 but he had to change it when he signed back with the university (he had taken a year off to study) because he was told that F2-1 is only good for PART TIME work, so a full time contract would not be valid, so he switched back to simply an E2. I don' t know if this is some "weird case" but I'll check into this again just to be sure.

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:18 am Post subject: Re: One little thing...

Holyjoe · Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: Away for a cuppa

Joseph Fitzgerald · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I am getting ready to come back to Korea. My Korean wife is here in the states with me. I had an F-2 visa my last 6 or 7 months in Korea. Can I get an F-2 while here in the states. I wonder if it will be quicker to get an F-2 here, and wait till I come to Korea then get my E-2. I will come in August, and my wife will come in September.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Joseph Fitzgerald · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I can't, my wife will be in the states another month after I go back to Korea. How do I get my F2 while still in the states?

prosodic · Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Location: ��

I've got a stupid question. Have you called the nearest Korean consulate and asked them?

jazblanc77 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004

As a first time applicant, since being married, you will have to get an F-2-1 visa. Run a search for related threads as there are a lot out there that will answer your questions accurately.

By the way, with an f-2 visa, you will still be required to get a work permit added to the visa to allow you to work. The requirements for a work visa are the same as an E-2 visa, meaning your employer will have to go to the immigration office to re-apply with you. I am also not sure that getting an F-2 will save you from the E-2 slavery that you are in now. I think the most major difference for you between the two visas right now is the convenience vs. annoyance factor involved in them. Do you really want to bother your director with reapplying for a visa when he/she is already trying to slate you?

In the end, if you have problems with your director, E-2 or F-2, you have the same recourse to use against your director via the Labour Board which will help you to get any remuneration owed to you in your contract.