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Adventurer
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 Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:16 am Post subject: Transcripts Question.. |
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I heard somewhere that transcripts cannot be older than 3 months. I heard it is some new Korean law. Is that true? I have a transcript that my current boss, in the end, didn't need to use. It is still sealed. I am wondering if I can use in 2008?
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:20 am Post subject: Re: Transcripts Question.. |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
I heard somewhere that transcripts cannot be older than 3 months. I heard it is some new Korean law. Is that true? I have a transcript that my current boss, in the end, didn't need to use. It is still sealed. I am wondering if I can use in 2008?
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You can certainly try.
I have heard (not first hand) of people with old transcripts being required to get new ones
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I used an OLD one for my last visa application with no problem.
They were official transcripts in uni-sealed envelopes. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Personally, never had problems with old transcipts. |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Not far from the deep end.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| I can tell you what I had to do. My current place of employment asked that sealed, stamped, and signed transcripts be sent to them directly from my old university. They then hand them to an immigration bureaucrat to open them and inspect them. They then offer a visa issuance number. This happened Feb. 2007. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| merkurix wrote: |
| I can tell you what I had to do. My current place of employment asked that sealed, stamped, and signed transcripts be sent to them directly from my old university. They then hand them to an immigration bureaucrat to open them and inspect them. They then offer a visa issuance number. This happened Feb. 2007. |
The reason I ask is I have a sealed transcript with my current business's address (i.e. hagwon). In the end, they didn't need it for immigration for renewing my visa, so it remained sealed. Does it matter what address is on there? |
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polonius
Joined: 05 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:47 am Post subject: Transcripts |
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| Immigration doesn't care what address is on them, only the name. And I have had teachers refused an issuance # because the transcripts were older than 3 months. I think it all comes down to who you are dealing with at immigration, and what kind of mood they are in. |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Not far from the deep end.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:04 am Post subject: Re: Transcripts |
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| polonius wrote: |
| Immigration doesn't care what address is on them, only the name. And I have had teachers refused an issuance # because the transcripts were older than 3 months. I think it all comes down to who you are dealing with at immigration, and what kind of mood they are in. |
Absolutely agree! I had a total pisshead bureaucrat at Immigration refuse to even look at my sealed trascripts my new employer was holding in his hand because "the exterior envelope was not embossed with the official university seal." This is totally not standard practice at my old university; it has never been a problem before until now. I had to start all over again, pay lots of money to process again and expeditiously ship them to Korea, and I had to call up the registrar to beg her to "please do this silly and odd request for moi." She asked if "they open them, can't they just see the official seal on the transcript itself, wouldn't that work?" I said, "Not for this bureaucrat." So she put a seal and the second time it went through wihout incident, thank God. So I think the particular guy my boss got was on his rag or something. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| The transcript that I have in hand will be about one year old when I use it. More like 9 months old. How could someone tell if it 3 months old or 9? I can't see a date on the stamp from Canada Poste. I don't know if they put dates on the transcripts themselves. I can't remember. I don't think so. I'm assuming the ones that they reject because they are older than three months might have a post mark that clearly shows an old date. Any ideas? |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| The transcript that I have in hand will be about one year old when I use it. More like 9 months old. How could someone tell if it 3 months old or 9? I can't see a date on the stamp from Canada Poste. I don't know if they put dates on the transcripts themselves. I can't remember. I don't think so. I'm assuming the ones that they reject because they are older than three months might have a post mark that clearly shows an old date. Any ideas? |
Adventurer, if you have at least a couple of weeks between now and when you have to present transcripts before an immigration official, I think it is best to just order several transcripts and have them shipped to your place of employment you are at now. For international shipping, it is possible that several sealed transcripts will be stuffed into a larger marked express delivery envelope and the transcript envelopes themselves should be unmarked. I tried searching for the right info, but I keep hearing that the transcripts have to be less than 3 months old. |
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polonius
Joined: 05 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| The transcript that I have in hand will be about one year old when I use it. More like 9 months old. How could someone tell if it 3 months old or 9? I can't see a date on the stamp from Canada Poste. I don't know if they put dates on the transcripts themselves. I can't remember. I don't think so. I'm assuming the ones that they reject because they are older than three months might have a post mark that clearly shows an old date. Any ideas? |
The date of issue is is printed on the inside of the envelop, on the transcript itself. |
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