Korean Job Discussion Forums

[kangnam mafioso]

does that make me untouchable and bar me from ever teaching in a korean university again?

i read somewhere that your record has to be absolutely clean. is this true or just a little hyperbole?

i have 2-3 misdemeanors dating back to college 13 years ago (pub. intox, tresspass, DWI -- no conviction).

my FBI check has allowed me to teach in the states at secondary schools and colleges, although i was questioned about the above incidents in order to teach at a middle school a few years ago.

ANYONE ELSE HAVE AN OLD MISDEAMENOR and was denied a E2 visa???

[crusher_of_heads]

In Canada you can have it removed from your record-so a regualr check it doesn't appear unless your CPN or some freak she-male like her.


I'm sorry if this doesn't help-you mean it's there permanently for something like public intoxication [a korean pastime]?

[tzechuk]

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=109142

[GrowlingMadScientist]

Are those convictions on your FBI check? If not, you're probably o.k.
If so, according to what I've heard, then you're probably screwed for an E2. However, there's so much hearsay flying around these days that I wouldn't put much stock in anything anyone says, including immigration officials.

But, as you probably know, Korea takes any sort of alcohol abuse REALLY SERIOUSLY... Man, I've never lived anywhere that's made me fall out of my chair laughing so often because of blatant hypocrisy.

If you ask me, banned=blessed.

[Homer]

If you want a University job, aren't you applying for an E-1 visa?

Anyway, you could try to have those missdemeanors removed from your record if there is such a thing like a Pardon Board (What we have in Canada).

Your "crimes" seem harmless enough and are all missdemeanors...

So, it could prevent you from getting an E-2 or it could be irrelevant to the application...you need to ask immigration youself.

[tomwaits]

Not so fast on the Pardon thing,

I don't claim to have the answer for sure--well find out in the future when someone tries,

But a pardon will not say you are clean: it will say you were convicted of (say possession) but were granted a full pardon,

Pardon can make you bondable in Canada but does not guarantee us entrance to the US, We'll find out what the Koreans do about it.

[Suwoner10]

Most US States do not pardon adult offenses.

[IncognitoHFX]

I was just thinking recently and realized that I have been *technically* arrested before. I was at a protest in my university days, things got a little out of hand (someone bit a policeman's finger off at the WTCC in Halifax) and a whole lot of us got arrested... maybe five people, some did get away. The biter is still in jail as far as I know.

They handcuffed us, drove us to the police station, questioned us, recorded our names and information, drove us back to the university and then let us ago.

Would this show up on a CRC?

*Cue paranoia*

[PGF]

Ten years in law in the US tells me that abolishing a simple offense rfom your record costs thousands and takes a long time.

if the ROK is rejecting teachers with 10 year old misdemeanors, yes, you can not work here anymore on an E-2.

[Bibbitybop]

1. Arrests, if your fingerprints were taken, will show up on an FBI check. Not on a local check.

2. I have yet to read or hear WHAT TYPE OF OFFENSES WILL BAR YOU FROM AN E-2 VISA. No one knows as far a I can tell.

Furthermore, if arrests are on an FBI check, does the Korean system even understand western legal systems? Will they see an arrest and say "you have record. No visa!"???

This would mean innocent people who were wrongly arrested would be barred from getting an E-2 visa. It's stupid, but I can see Korea doing this.

3. There are some good threads on the site, like tzechuk posted, but the entire E-2 visa mess and the length of the rumor-filled threads are almost worth tossing out and starting over from square one.

Even Korean immigration doesn't know up from down. Mr. Lee, who wrote a newspaper article about E-2 visa, didn't have his facts straight and he passed the NY bar exam.

[kangnam mafioso]

thanks for the responses. i saw the earlier thread on this but couldn't make heads or tails of it -- one person said they were denied an e2. i am curious if more people are being denied because of old misdemeanor charges (specifically non drug or sexual charges).

it would seem ridiculous to get barred from an E2 because of a 13 year old public intox charge or a DWI/non conviction.

But Korea is ridiculous in a lot of ways and they don't understand the american legal system.

in the usa, the only way to expunge records is if you were under 18 and completed a pre-trial program or the charges were later dropped. it is still a costly affair to have charges removed even though you weren't convicted.

who cares i'll just go teach in jakarta.

[Bibbitybop]

[kangnam mafioso]

[GrowlingMadScientist]

[mrsquirrel]