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Typhoon · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: Daejeon

Only if he has a lot of money or is related to the royal family. US immigration policy is now based on money or refugee status. If you don't have money, are married to an American or are a refugee getting permenant resident status in the US is crazy hard for anyone. The difference between US policy and Korean policy is that in the US they try to set a standard and apply it. They just don't say...Arabs not welcome, Europeans are. That is the essence of this Korean immigration officers statement. We know we could be letting scum into Korea, but we don't care because at least it is Korean scum.

gteacher · Joined: 24 May 2007 Location: Ghost in the machine

Typhoon · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: Daejeon

I have had an F2 for almost 6 years now and do you know how many health checks I have had? Zero. Most of my friends are married and on F2s. Do you know how many health checks they have had done? Zero. Health checks are not getting done.

My point was that permenant residence visas in most other countries require a health check, a police check, a lot of paperwork, and sometimes an interview . It the responsiblity of the applicant to get those done and costs the applicant. It takes no man power from the country being applied to get these things done (except the interview of course). In Korea it takes a one page form, 3 forms from your wife, and a bank statement or rental papers showing you have enough money invested in a house. That is it. The difference between perm. resident procedures is insanely different. The gov't response..."we know there are some scumbags getting in, but what can we do? There is no perfect system." Well, there is things they could do if they wanted...other countries do them to ensure that scum isn't coming into their country. But Korea is only worried about scummy E2 holders. I wonder why?

broken76 · Joined: 27 Jan 2008

There seems to be some confusion on what needs to be done for F-2s and 4s to work at a school or hagwon. The laws state that an F-2 and F-4 have the same rights as Koreans citizens when it comes to work. That means that they don't have to jump through the same Visa hoops as an E-2.
But they still need to go through the screening process of the Education department. This requires a health check, background check and also a degree in order to legally work for the school. This applies to Korean citizens as well.
For foreign teachers they go through the same process as well but usually aren't aware of it since the school does the registering. Unfortunately the background check is done through the Korean police and not the one from the teacher's home country but then it would be discrimination to request that from the teacher. The background check really is a meaningless thing unless there is a universal background check that could show all possible offenses around the world.
Now if the school employs these teachers without said checks then it is doing so illegally. Every school is bound by law to post the current teaching staff on the wall with a certificate from the ministry of education. If the ministry of education comes by to do a check this is one of the first things that it looks at. It's actually something that needs to be updated within two weeks of new hirings and dismissals.

aphase · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

shifter2009 · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Location: wisconsin

jkelly80 · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

US permanent residence policy is kind of whack. it splits up families. You and your immediate family can come but your grandma that's been living with you for 20years has to stay.

jvalmer · Joined: 06 Jun 2003

I'm a believer in anyone over the age of 60-ish should not be allowed to immigrate to Canada. Unless they have tons of money, of course.