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[tick]

I left Korea about a month ago thinking it would be for good. A few weeks back home, I thought I would give Korea / my ex-Korean woman friend another go... yes pathetically I think it's love. The problem is I over stayed my E2(?) visa by four days. Do you think this is grounds for having my new visa request rejected? Or would it be rather a question of paying a fine and having to wait significantly longer than normal for a visa to be issued? I would hate to get all the paperwork done and then to be inform that it was all for not as I am for at least the immediate future ineligible for a new visa. At the Pusan airport, immigration ask me repeatedly if were planning to return. My response was flatly no as I was certain about my project to start life afresh back home. At this point they took my alien regis. card. I've tried to contact Korean immigration offices from here but no luck as yet getting someone to answer the phone. And I rather not just yet present my question to the consulate in Toronto as this might complicate matters. I ask you then -- how do you think this will play out?

[Medic]

Ring a recruiter and find out. Might be a few others out there with same type of query.

[ttompatz]

If you were going to get a fine they would have done it before you departed.

An overstay will complicate your new E2 application and will require you to have a consular interview.

IF there were no other complications besides the 4 day overstay you should be fine to get a new visa AFTER you jump through the hoops.

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[skeeterses]

I have a question about the Visa overstay issue, if anybody knows.

If a person overstays his E-2 Visa and does not have the money to pay the fine, does that person have to worry about the immigration authorities throwing him into a debtor's prison? Or does the person pay the fine back in his own country at the Korean embassy?

[ttompatz]