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[winterwawa]

As a lot of people on this board already know, my korean wife left me and is now living with a guy in Australia. I have started divorce proceedings, but am now worried about my VISA status.

According to the Guidebook for Foreign spouses of Korean nationals at
http://www.immigration.go.kr/indeximmeng.html , if there is a divorce and the Korean spouse is at fault, immi CAN permit reissue of F-2-1 with a change of sponsor to job or close friend, and they CAN permit an F-5 if other conditions are met as well. (ie money and job)

I talked to the attorney who is handling my divorce and he said all these regulations are discretionary. That means, if the guy got laid the night before and is in a good mood, then he might approve the F-2-1 and/or F5, but they don't have too.

There is also a provision in the naturalization process that allows for naturalization in the case of divorce where the korean spouse is at fault. Not that I am crazy about the idea of giving up my citizenship to become a korean, so please don't ask my why I want to be a korean. That is not the point of this post.

My question is this: Does anyone on this board know of anyone getting an F5 or maintaining thier F-2-1 after getting a divorce from thier korean spouse? If so, can you give me any details about what they went through and how difficult it was? If it is your own personal experience and you would rather not post, please pm me and we can talk that way or make arrangements to meet up for a drink or something.

I am also not looking for dialogs about why she left me, any grammar or spelling mistakes, or flames from people like spiff and jinju. If you can't answer the questions or offer advise that will help me, please don't post anything.

[SuperHero]

There is a web site (can't remember the url) for spouse of Koreans. It's mostly women and they weren't keen when I posted questions from a male perspective, but that was a few years back. Anyhow if you find it, they had tons of resources and would probably know more than the perps here on Dave's.

Sorry to hear about your situation. Hope you get the visa issue straitened out in your favor.

[tzechuk]

ISKA, Superhero?

Let me ask on it for you, winterwara.

[winterwawa]

SuperHero, I have googled using every possible key word I can think of and all I have been able to find is what's in the guide book for foreign spouses. Do you remember if the site was in Korean or English?

tzechuk, thank you in advance for any help you may find. I have until October before I have to renew again, but I don't want to wait til the last minute.

Thanks again guys.

[tzechuk]

You can go here:

http://www.iskakorea.com/bbs/read.php?table=board5&seq=1319&uid=1757&page=1&field=&query=

and see if there are any responses.

Good luck!

[SuperHero]

[winterwawa]

[mrsquirrel]

winterewawa

I just binned the guide book.

It had in it something along the lines about it not being your fault then you can apply for an extension of stay without your spouse.

I think they difficult bit is showing that it's not your fault.

Also had a bit in it that if your husband beats you it's a good thing because it gives you evidence so you can stay.

[winterwawa]

[Captain Corea]

I hate to name names, but wasn't it a poster on this board that was talking about getting divorced a year or so back? I kind of think it was Cohiba (but big apologies if I'm mistaken).

[winterwawa]

I think that was me. Still hasn't happened yet, due to the above.