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The National Assembly held a plenary session Friday and passed a revised bill to grant Korean nationality to foreigners whose marital relations were terminated within two years, due to their Korean spouses' death or disappearance.

http://www.visalaw.com/96oct/5oct96.html

To prevent foreigners from gaining citizenship through "contract" marriages, the current law stipulates that foreigners who marry Koreans can apply for Korean nationality only if they live in Korea and maintain marital relations for two years. Women's organizations, however, have called for the law to be revised, saying that foreigners are unable to acquire Korean nationality even when their marital relations ended due to their spouses' faults, and that some people have abused the regulation.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200312/200312260020.html

Canada recognizes the legality of marriages performed in other countries. However, marriages performed in Canada may not always be considered legal in other countries. Similarly, divorce and child custody documents issued by Canadian courts may not be recognized.
Second citizenship may result from:
1. an application for citizenship
2. place of birth
3. family connections, including place of birth of one of your parents or even grandparents
4. marriage
5. extended residency
http://www.voyage.gc.ca/main/pubs/dual_citizenship-en.asp

"Immediate relatives" of a U.S. citizen
"Immediate relatives" of a U.S. citizen refers to parents, spouses and children (who are unmarried and under 21 years of age) of a U.S. citizen. Immediate relatives of a U.S. citizen can immigrate to the United States without being subject to any numerical restrictions, unlike other close family members of U.S. citizens and/or permanent residents. Namely, they can apply for the permanent resident status without any waiting time.

Q: Does my divorce affect my status as a conditional permanent resident?
A: Yes. The general rule is that divorce terminates the conditional permanent residence. Nevertheless, in this scenario, it is possible for the alien to obtain a waiver of the termination.

Q: I am a battered spouse of a U.S. citizen. May I file an immigration petition on my own behalf?
A: Yes. To qualify, the alien spouse must:
Be a person of good moral character;
Have entered the marriage in good faith;
Have resided in the U.S. with the citizen spouse;
Have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by the citizen spouse.
http://www.hooyou.com/familybased/index.html

If the marriage ends or the US citizen spouse fails to cooperate in the filing of the application, the foreign spouse can file for a waiver. Waivers will be granted if the applicant can show:
- extreme hardship if the applicant is deported or
- the marriage was entered into in good faith and terminated

If the waiver is based on good faith entry into the marriage, the applicant should submit documents showing merged financial assets, length of the time the couple lived together and the grounds for the divorce.
Edited once (Title change for clarity sake) by Harpeau @ 9:20AM, Monday, Dec. 29th, 2003.

[Mashimaro]

The Xenephobia continues.. yay for the hermit kingdom

[Homer]

Mashimaro...where are you from mate?

In Canada (my home country) a person does not gain citizenship through marriages either...it takes longer and a lot of paperwork to get that.

Germany, Japan and many other countries have very similar naturalization laws then Korea (i.e. just as limiting and exclusive).

Finally, how does this law affect you? Are you pining to become a Korean citizen? Or perhaps you just want it to be availbale to you because it should be since you are...oh nevermind...

RR, Merry christmas and Happy new year to you and best of luck in your constant quest to post negative only threads....it must take you a lot of time and energy to find all this and the posting must shed some light on that dark place you call a heart...cheers mate

[SuperHero]

What homer said, plus RR's total lack of commentary on anything he posts. RR does not participate in this forum other than posting graffiti.

[Mashimaro]

[Mr. Pink]

[matko]

Actually, you don't have to be fluent in English or French to get Canadian citizenship. I don't know if that is what you are implying, though

I didn't read the articles, but does anyone know if a half Korean/half foreign child born in Korea get automatic citizenship? Also, does it matter whether or not the father or the mother are Korean?

Just curious.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Cthulhu]

[Gord]

[matko]

[funplanet]

Sorry, Mr. Pink...America DOES allow dual citizenship...it has been upheld by the Supreme Court many times and there is no law barring it...people taking the citizenship oath renounce there original citizenship but are, in reality, allowed to keep it if the country of origin allows dual citizenship...

I am a dual citizen (US-Irish) and there are currently millions of Americans with second or even third citizenships...there are currently 14 million outstanding Irish passports, most of those holders are Americans with Irish heritage living in the US..and that doesn't even count the countless others whether Candadian, British, Mexican (Mexico now allows dual citizenship), French, and the list goes on...

so please, before claiming something as fact, be sure to check that it is indeed FACT!

[Ilsanman]

In Canada, language is important but money is even more important.

[Homer]

Mashi,

It does matter indeed how its done in other countries as it provides little things called perspective and relativism....

By saying its xenophobia then you have to realise that this implies all countries with similar or harsher citizenship laws are by your definition equally xenophobic....

You can't just take one country and isolated something thats not unique to it and then call it worse then another.
That just doesn't fly.

[Mr. Pink]