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NilesQ
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: Anyone returned home for embassy interview yet? |
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Has anybody actually had to do this yet? I would love to hear about the interview itself.
I have no problems with the new E2 requirements nor do I think many of us do. Actually, I'm surprised it has taken this long for them to implement them. I think the insanity lies in the fact that they want us to jump through these hoops every time we get the visa. Anyway, would love to hear some of the great stories which are sure to come out of the interviews. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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I've typed this the last couple of days and have yet to have anyone refute me:
Didn't immigration toss out the idea of in-country interviews unless the applicant is "suspicious?" |
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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| I have no problems with the new E2 requirements nor do I think many of us do |
Lol......you think I am going to fly all the way back to the USA for that crap? This is not some great $40,000 + a year job with great benefits. You must be rich if you can fly around the world to appease some immigration office. Go ahead and be immigrations new dog because I, for one, refuse to roll over on command. |
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NilesQ
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:03 am Post subject: Re: Anyone returned home for embassy interview yet? |
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I have no problems with the new E2 requirements nor do I think many of us do.
I think the insanity lies in the fact that they want us to jump through these hoops every time we get the visa. . |
I-am-me, if you look at what I wrote next you would see that I think having to go back for an interview is stupid. Having to do these things every time we get a visa means repeating the initial steps again and again. Which would include an interview at a Korean embassy in your home country. So, while I don't think that an interview as an initial requirement is so absurd, I don't think having to go back to our home countries to renew the visa is a useful thing.
Measure twice, cut once. |
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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| I have a problem when its E-2's that have the new requierments. I have not heard of anybody else having to submit themselves to this. Correct me if I'm wrong. All I have heard about are E-2's. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| It does not apply to those with other visas. |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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this isn't a 40k job? 3mil a month pretty close to 3k. times 12= 36k. plus pension'll put you right on 40k. counting for US taxes and prob more than 40k per annum.
bennies? priced health insurance back home lately?
and they give us a free roundtrip to hawaii every year? sweet. |
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NilesQ
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| I have a problem when its E-2's that have the new requierments. I have not heard of anybody else having to submit themselves to this. Correct me if I'm wrong. All I have heard about are E-2's. |
The vetting process is much more stringent for positions that involve contact with children. Elementary school teacher vs ditch digger. My sister recently became a teacher in Canada and she needed health and criminal checks. Making these part of the E2 requirements is an overdue development. Hookers in Korea have to have STD checks done on a regular basis.
In principle I totally agree with you. They are picking on ESL teachers because.......they can, and they like it. No matter that these measures don't really make any real difference, they appear to. In Korea that is more important than actual effect. The fact that we have to repeat it every time we want to get a new visa is just spiteful.
I lived and worked in Korea for 4 years. I only had an E2 visa for 1 of those years. If you want to get around an E2, you can. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: Re: Anyone returned home for embassy interview yet? |
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I have no problems with the new E2 requirements nor do I think many of us do.
I think the insanity lies in the fact that they want us to jump through these hoops every time we get the visa. . |
I-am-me, if you look at what I wrote next you would see that I think having to go back for an interview is stupid. Having to do these things every time we get a visa means repeating the initial steps again and again. Which would include an interview at a Korean embassy in your home country. So, while I don't think that an interview as an initial requirement is so absurd, I don't think having to go back to our home countries to renew the visa is a useful thing.
Measure twice, cut once. |
If you are in your home country near the city of your consulate, no, it's easy.
If you are not near the consulate, that's hundreds of dollars in travel and hotel costs, as well as time off work, that you will pay out of pocket. That's a problem.
If you are in Japan and applying for a Korean E-2 visa, someone has to pay for you go to back to the USA (or other country) for a 15 minute interview. That's absurd. Why couldn't the Korean consulate in Japan do this?
1. I still am under the impression that unless you are "suspicious," you don't have to do an interview.
2. The interviews won't stop a criminal from coming to Korea. But they will make good teachers or schools pay a lot of money for an unnecessary interview. This will increase the cost of education, especially hogwan prices, in Korea. They will also lead good teachers telling Korea to go fuk itself and they will teach somewhere else. |
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Snowmeow
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
Location: pc room
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Anyone returned home for embassy interview yet? |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
1. I still am under the impression that unless you are "suspicious," you don't have to do an interview.
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The Toronto Consulate is saying that all E-2 applicants require interviews
http://www.koreanconsulate.on.ca/en/mnu.php?sn=263 |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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ONLY first-time E-2 visa applicants OR people who are ALREADY in their home-country need to have the consul/embassy interview IN THEIR OWN country...
(That will apply to all those CANADIAN teachers who INSIST their employer buy them a return-home airplane ticket at the end of EVERY contract and then return home to Canada - where they spend a couple of weeks and then fly back to Korea to begin a new teaching position - with a new visa...
(so all those Canadians who always insist on a RETURN-TICKET after EACH 1-year contract - have fun at the interview)....
Those teachers (because they LEFT Korea and are in Canada with an expired (former) E-2 visa - will have to go through the Consul interviews...
Teachers who finish their contracts here in Korea and STAY in Korea and apply for a new visa here in Korea DO NOT need to do the consul interview...
p.s. - The interview will be based more on your appearance, character and attitude and your motives behind wanting to live and teach in Korea...
when I interview persons here for job positions - its basically the same thing - just the applicants appearance, character and attitude (the way they present themselves) is the most important thing..
(Its easy to figure out who is here for the money and to party and drink everynight - between those who are here for the cultural experience and want to genuinely do a good job teaching)...
Last edited by Yesterday on Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:48 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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denistron
Joined: 21 Oct 2006
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| But has anyone here had the interview yet? |
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