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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
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I've no problem with the criminal check and medical (I had to get them to get my current job).
However, this interview in your home country is nonsense. What am I supposed to do -f ly home for an interview? And what happens if the nork interviewing me decides I'm not handsome (or something) and doesn't give me a visa. Where am I? I'm home - with all my money, possessions, and stuff in Korea. Who's going to pay for me to fly back to Korea to get my stuff? |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I think the idea of flying back for an interview in your home country had been scrapped, but the police/medical checks were going through. Thats the last I heard. |
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Lonewolf
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: Re: New E2 Visa Law: Doesn't sound like a problem. |
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O-K, so big deal. Teachers will have to fly to their home country for a silly interview. 99% of all employers pay for a flight home after completing a contract so what's the problem? The ticket to the home country is paid for. Furthermore, if a teacher re-signs for another year with the same school, that school will undoubtedly pay for the trip back to Korea to do the second year. If the teacher decides not to re-sign with the same school for another year but rather sign with a different school, the teacher's new school will undoubtedly pay for the ticket back to Korea. Seems pretty cut and dried to me unless there's a piece of the puzzle missing of which I am unaware.
The only people really affected will be those newbies who would rather not be hired from abroad and choose to fly to Korea (on their own dime) on a tourist visa and hit the pavement seeking work. Once they land a job then what? Fly back to their home country? On who's dime? No employer in their right mind is going to fly somebody from Korea back to their home country before the teacher has done any work.
Got any ideas? |
I think you've lost your freaking mind. I care about wasting my vacation time. The nearest Korean consulate is 500 miles from my home town. My university is just as far and my State house is 75 miles from my home town. And you would expect me to drive to each one or fly. Plus pay for the documents again and have them notarized for the 3rd time. I have been working in South Korea for over 9 years I have been here so long they finger printed me 3 times. How in the world would I have a record back home when I haven't been back home. Can't these people learn to use Interpol? Immigration needs to learn how to really do their jobs and not make others do it for them. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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This also means that we will HAVE TO go back to our home countries.
So much for that vacation in Thailand, now I have to go back to Canada and go through all this Bull shyte.
If I want to have any vacation after that, it will be on top of the flight home, so it's going to cost me big time.
Korea Sparkling alright.  |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
| So much for that vacation in Thailand, now I have to go back to Canada and go through all this Bull shyte. |
If you think about it for a second, you don't really have to do that. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Please tell me, because I can't see any way around it ....other than just not work in Korea next year. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:30 am Post subject: |
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The background check is confusing. Fingerprints or just some general record. Which state? What if we've lived in multiple states (provinces, etc.?)
Can they just send the background check directly here? |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:21 am Post subject: Re: New E2 Visa Law: Doesn't sound like a problem. |
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| BTSskytrain wrote: |
O-K, so big deal. Teachers will have to fly to their home country for a silly interview. 99% of all employers pay for a flight home after completing a contract so what's the problem? The ticket to the home country is paid for. Furthermore, if a teacher re-signs for another year with the same school, that school will undoubtedly pay for the trip back to Korea to do the second year. If the teacher decides not to re-sign with the same school for another year but rather sign with a different school, the teacher's new school will undoubtedly pay for the ticket back to Korea. Seems pretty cut and dried to me unless there's a piece of the puzzle missing of which I am unaware.
The only people really affected will be those newbies who would rather not be hired from abroad and choose to fly to Korea (on their own dime) on a tourist visa and hit the pavement seeking work. Once they land a job then what? Fly back to their home country? On who's dime? No employer in their right mind is going to fly somebody from Korea back to their home country before the teacher has done any work.
Got any ideas? |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:22 am Post subject: Re: finished |
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| Kwangjuchicken wrote: |
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| i'm done. take good care and i'll see ya at the consulate. |
If you are done, then why will we see you at the consulate? Or did you make a typo and you wanted to say dumb? |
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nashvegas
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
The background check is confusing. Fingerprints or just some general record. Which state? What if we've lived in multiple states (provinces, etc.?)
Can they just send the background check directly here? |
I just started the "get my visa" process in the US and this is the way I understand it:
-I need a national criminal background check
-I spoke with my local police dept. and they only do a check for this county (I don't understand why)
-I have to apply for an FBI background check which will take 16-18 weeks according to their website, they mail it to me then I must have it apostilled in Washington, D.C (I live in TN)
-The FBI check does use fingerprints, but you can go to any local police station and have them taken.
I'm going to go ahead and have my local police dept. do a CBC so that I have something to show that I'm not a criminal while I wait on the FBI check. |
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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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| If you have lived in Korea for a long time, just go to the nearest Korean Police station. They will write you up a police report, and it should be good enough. You really think Immigration here are gonna care. Turn that in with all the other documents, and justb keep your fingers crossed. |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| nashvegas wrote: |
I just started the "get my visa" process in the US and this is the way I understand it:
-I need a national criminal background check |
No. Per Korean Immigration, a statewide check is sufficient. Information about statewide background checks from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is available here: http://www.tbi.state.tn.us/tbibackgrounds/background_checks.htm |
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nashvegas
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Ut videam wrote: |
| nashvegas wrote: |
I just started the "get my visa" process in the US and this is the way I understand it:
-I need a national criminal background check |
No. Per Korean Immigration, a statewide check is sufficient. Information about statewide background checks from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is available here: http://www.tbi.state.tn.us/tbibackgrounds/background_checks.htm |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Glad to help. You can also find information about obtaining an apostille from the Tennessee Secretary of State's office here: http://state.tn.us/sos/forms/apos.pdf
Make sure you contact the Secretary of State's office and the TBI to determine what's necessary to get a background check that they can apostille. Korean Immigration will want the check to be signed by an official with the TBI, so be sure to mention that. An official, notarized signature is generally necessary to obtain an apostille as well. |
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idonojacs
Joined: 07 Jun 2007
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Lonewolf:
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Can't these people learn to use Interpol? Immigration needs to learn how to really do their jobs and not make others do it for them.
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I agree. |
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