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[modernjazz]

My wife was born and raised in Korea where I met her when teaching ESL back in the late 80s, but then she came to America at age 27 or so. For school, not because of me. But then she married me a few years later and several years later became a US citizen. However she says she didn't properly file her papers with the Korean consulate "renouncing" her Korean citizenship.

Now we are considering a move back. I am strongly advising she get an F4 visa which as a gymbo she is allowed to do. Her entire family still all lives in Korea including her parents. But she is shy about going to the consulate because of that issue with the "renouncing" papers. She is pressuring me to just apply for a job and get an E2 visa and I believe an F2 would be so much better for me, because I could freelance, and come and go more easily, and maybe qualify for some different jobs.

I'm right about the F2 visa right? And does she have anything to worry about going to apply for her F4 based on what I told you?

Also she has awesome English skills for a native Korean. She also could qualify for more jobs w/ an F4 and have more freedom right?

Thanks in advance for your answers. I know some of this has been covered, but not the "renouncing" issue I don't think.

[ttompatz]

If she didn't renounce her Korean citizenship, then she IS still Korean and entitled to a Korean passport (regardless of her American citizenship.)

As a Korean she would NOT need a visa to return home, simply a new passport. Each country does NOT recognise dual citizenships but they do occur AND they are legal.

She can enter and leave Korea as a Korean and enter and leave the US as an American.

IF she returns home as a Korean then you can have an F2 visa.
IF she renounces her Korean citizenship and returns as an American with an F4 then you would get an F1 and NOT be entitled to work. You would need to change to an E2 to work.

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