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amanda114 · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

In early December I will be tranfering my current VISA from one employer to another. My current employer agrees to the transfer.

I am wanting information about what procedure I take. I have visited the immigration office and called a number to ask what I need to do. Both people I spoke to were very vague as to what paper work I need to prepare. I don't want to go to immigration with information missing and have to make another visit.

So if anyone else has done this before (recently) please let me know what I have to do.

Oh the search option didn't work - I tried before writing this!

Thanks in advance

KYC · Joined: 11 May 2006

release letter from your current employer

contract from new employer
maybe somethign else...I got 2 other documents from my new employers but I dont know what they are called.

Go to immigration, fill out the form for alteration of employment. The fee was 90,000 or was it 60,000..i cant really remember...sorry.

amanda114 · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Ut videam · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

1. Letter of Release from your current employer.
2. Visa Extension / change of employer application
3. Passport and your Alien Registration Card
4. New contract
5. Sponsorship Certificate (from school)
6. A copy of Certificate of School / Business Registration (from school)
7. Processing Fee(s):
30k for the extension
60k for the employer change.
PLUS
50k - if you want a multi-re-entry permit (your old re-entry permit / multi entry from your visa will be canceled as part of the extension).
(this is free if you are from the UK)

jadarite · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

Also note, they will take your passport and foreigner card for 2 weeks at least. So, if you need them for like bank issues, get all of that done before going to immigration. I found this out Friday. The bank wouldn't accept the receipts showing I applied for a visa extension. Not that I expect them to, but you would think if the country needs your passport and foreigner card they would issue you some temporary ID card you could use in the interim.

Ut videam · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

jadarite · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject:

Yes, I worked on the eastern side of Korea in a small city called Yeongyang near Andong (I went through the Daegu immigration office then), and now I am going through the immigration office in Suwon to get a job at a public school in Pyeongtaek. So, I am changing locations and extending my visa.

However, they didn't ask for a new passport picture for a new card if needed. Maybe they want to get the passport visa stuff straightened out before they do anything on the ARC, so they took it with the passport.

In Japan, they did a similar thing, so I didn't question them on it. The only difference is that in Japan there is a ward office where you take your foreigner card to in order to get updated.

I found the following post. I know it's not exactly what I went through, but it does show that immigration has kept passports in the past.

"3 � The immigration official will give you a receipt with the date that you can return and pick up your passport and alien registration card. It usually takes 10-14 days to process an alien registration card. "

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=7010

Ut videam · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do

Yeah, in my experience they've always kept the passport for a week or two when you apply for your ARC.

But I've also always heard (caveat: no firsthand experience) that extension of sojourn and change of workplace are done while you wait.

ttompatz's surmise that it has to do with the change of immigration office jurisdiction makes sense, though. The ARC cards even look a little different from office to office.