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[colewest]

Hello,

I've just signed a contract to teach in Seoul. I need to get my visa paperwork sent off and am waiting on my criminal background check.

It just occurred to me that a MIP I received in Corvallis, Oregon in 2004 might be a problem when trying to get my E2 visa. I was 18 at the time, 22 now, and as far as I know it is still on my record. I haven't received any other tickets.

Does anyone know if this will or will not be a problem? What do they consider a serious enough offense to deny a visa request?

Thank you for any help.

[traxxe]

Posession is a drug offense so unfortunately you are out.

They don't really care what you were posessing.

You may get through on a lazy Immi officer but I doubt it. You were screwed by the new regulations, sorry.

You could try another state CRC, maybe this won't show up on your FBI check. Did you get fingerprinted?

[colewest]

There was no arrest and I was never fingerprinted until I got my fingerprint card to apply for the criminal background check.

So, even alcohol counts. That's a shame. Thanks a lot for the input, though.

Anybody else have better news?

[colewest]

Jurrassic82 - Thanks for the message, I feel a bit better. I'd PM this but I haven't posted 25 times yet and it won't allow me to do so. I'll post to the forum in a couple weeks to say if I got in or not.

Again, if anyone has further insights I would really appreciate them.

[MarionG]

I'm from North Carolina where criminal background checks (state) are only issued to companies which are registered to do business in the US. You can't get you own CRC. I asked a friend to get it for me through his law firm and he did, without fingerprints.

It was clear, as I expected it to me...the only point of my jumping in here is that you don't necessarily have to have fingerprints to get it.

[spliff]

Wow, you all from N. Carolina have a strange way of writing...I could hardly understand it.

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