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GreenlightmeansGO · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Location: Daegu

Sorry, this is a re-post from the travel section, but I'm trying to get as much help as possible.

No gods smile on me.

Day 1 here, too exhausted for words, and I lost my passport - most likely on the KTX from Seoul to Daegu.

I don't know how you other folks would manage getting an E2 visa in my situation, but any help will be great. I am South African, so any South African specific help will be REALLY appreciated.

Apparently I can't go to Japan (visa run) on a temporary visa, but someone else told me that I can, I just need to get a travel document from the Japanese Embassy. The woman at the

I'm pretty scared and worried my 30 day tourist visa is going to run out... hmmm.

Is there a way I can get it extended?

I'm off to Seoul in the morning to visit the grand South African Embassy...chances are I'm getting lost as well.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

CALL your embassy ASAP and ask them how you can get a re-issued passport.

Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

http://www.southafrica-embassy.or.kr/

Tel : 02.792.4855

jeffkim1972 · Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Location: Mokpo

I lost my passport once (i am american, but i'm sure the rules could be similar, although the american citizen services here at the US embassy are very fast and efficient because of the military presence), anyhow.

1. Must file a police report (to prove it is lost).
2. Get to your embassy and tell them and they will also give you procedures.
3. If you have citizenship proof back in South Africa, or better yet, with you, you'll need those documents again. Any identification is helpful. Remember, you must prove your citizenship to SA again to obtain your passport.
4. The US embassy was able to make me a new passport within 3 hours, but i'm not sure about SA.

Send me a PM and help you out more.

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

jeffkim1972 · Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Location: Mokpo

Korea will allow an extension. I had some Visa Delays,so theygave me a 6 week extension for 150,000 WON. Immigration is pretty reasonable with the extensions as long as you can prove that you lost your passport and are waiting for a new one.

I actually didn't have my citizenship papers with me, but i had the citizenship number, along with social security and driver's license and they granted me a 1 year passport (sort of looks like a 10 year one).

My guess is this emergency passport looks like the real one except it's term of validity (much shorter than the real one). in other regards it's indisguishable and just as effective.

Although my emergency one started to fall apart sooner, the plastic became detached from the paper where the picture was and it looked as if i stole someone's passport and inserted my own picture in there.

Also, i missed a step.

1. File police report
2. contact embassy
3. Go to the immigration office, get your entry/exit information (when you came into the country, etc)
4. Then go to embassy with police report, the entry/exit info, along with citizenship documents, numbers, ID, etc (anything to help identify you in your home country).

GreenlightmeansGO · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Location: Daegu

Thanks for the help, folks.

Apparently Hong Kong will allow me in on a temp passport and I can get my E2 there.

Japan doesn't allow temp passports, but they do have an emergeny travel document, but I still have to phone them to find out the details.

I should be getting my temp passport on wednesday, so I SHOULD be able to get an E2 before d-day arrives. BUT my experiences so far have shown me that things don't usually work out. I'm not alone in this am I?