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drkalbi
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 Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:18 am Post subject: Is there such thing as an F-1 visa? |
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| I have read about F2, F2-1, F3, F4 and F5 visas. Just wondering if anyone has an F1 visa and what it is used for. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:36 am Post subject: |
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Yes, there is F1.
F1 is similar to an F2 - it used to be that if you were a man and married to a Korean woman, you'd get an F1... but it seems like that everything is merged now and that folks are just being given F2s if they are married to Korean nationals, regardless of gender. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:36 am Post subject: Re: Is there such thing as an F-1 visa? |
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| drkalbi wrote: |
| I have read about F2, F2-1, F3, F4 and F5 visas. Just wondering if anyone has an F1 visa and what it is used for. |
F-1 Status (Visiting and Joining Families)
F-1 visa is granted to foreigners who wish to stay in Korea to visit their relatives, join their families, be supported by families, help household affairs or with other purposes corresponding to those above. This visa category involves the following individuals :
。who wish to help household affairs of diplomats stationed at foreign Embassy or Consulate ;
。who wish to temporarily stay with their families or relatives having A-1, A-2, A-3 status or having alien registration completed ;
。who wishes to stay for a long period of time without participating in employment activities ; and
。who has not been granted the F-2 status as a wife/child of Korean or a person having F-2 status.
。Korean-foreigner |
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Orson
Joined: 08 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: Is there such thing as an F-1 visa? |
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| drkalbi wrote: |
| I have read about F2, F2-1, F3, F4 and F5 visas. Just wondering if anyone has an F1 visa and what it is used for. |
The F-1 used to be known as the "wife visa". It was usually given to foreign women who married Korean men. It was unusual for a foreign man to get an F-1 visa because it was assumed that he would work and support the family, and work is prohibited on an F-1 visa. |
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bellum99
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: don't need to know
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| A non-Korean man and a Korean woman have a baby in Korea. The baby needs a non-korean passport and a visa. The visa is a F-1 visa because there is no employment required. The visa allows a family member to live in Korea but can't work at any job. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:28 am Post subject: |
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| bellum99 wrote: |
| A non-Korean man and a Korean woman have a baby in Korea. The baby needs a non-korean passport and a visa. The visa is a F-1 visa because there is no employment required. The visa allows a family member to live in Korea but can't work at any job. |
Thing with this is:
Me (Canadian) + wife (Korean) had a baby in Korea. The baby being born in Korea, being of Korean blood, and registered at the local gov't office, she is Korean and thus doesn't need the F1 visa. She is also Canadian. My child has both a Korean and Canadian passport.
Now perhaps if my child was born in Korea and we wanted to deny it Korean citizenship (a friend of mine did that) by not registering the child as Korean but as Canadian, then an F1 would be necessary (which she did have to do at immigration) - my friend did this because she had a son and was scared about future military service. Her son did not have a Korean passport. |
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bellum99
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Born when?
When my son was born he couldn't have my name. He had to have the mothers Korean name and he had to have a name in Hangul. He had to register and get a visa. This was 2001.
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we went to the court and fought to change his name to mine and give him his English name. We won and his name was legally changed. He still needed a Canadian passport and F1 visa.
---I think different places have different rules (only God knows why) in this country. I am talking about the Mokdong Immigration building because at this time everyone in Seoul had to go there.
Everyone said we couldn't change his name but we did. Weird place. |
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lowpo
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| bellum99 wrote: |
Born when?
When my son was born he couldn't have my name. He had to have the mothers Korean name and he had to have a name in Hangul. He had to register and get a visa. This was 2001.
later.....
we went to the court and fought to change his name to mine and give him his English name. We won and his name was legally changed. He still needed a Canadian passport and F1 visa.
---I think different places have different rules (only God knows why) in this country. I am talking about the Mokdong Immigration building because at this time everyone in Seoul had to go there.
Everyone said we couldn't change his name but we did. Weird place. |
When my wife moved to KOrean to join me from China. She was issued a F-1 visa. But she can not work on an F-1 visa. |
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