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[Godhasbeengoodtome]

However, if an employer does not recognize the certification letter and requires your diploma instead, ask the college you attended to produce a duly certified copy of your original diploma (or of your duplicate diploma), which you must provide for reproduction. The diploma (or duplicate diploma) is a personal document and should not be given to a third party or to an organization

I copied this from a website that talks about duplicate diplomas. I think after mailing my diploma off a few days ago it scares me that it could get lost in the mail or by the korean school or recruiter.

Why are we being forced to hand over such a personal and important document? I think this is wrong.

[neeneek]

Talking of diplomas...

A few months ago I applied for the private teacher license. I filled the forms in at home and my husband took them in to be processed.

He left all my personal documents there including my passport and degree. I was a bit cheesed off by this. He assured me that they will post them back within the next few days. And they did, only minus my degree.

I got my hubby to call and ask where it is. He said that they are going to keep it. I asked him, when will I get it back? They said never. Why?

He called back to find out why.

They said that they will keep it so that you can not make a copy of it and sell it because there are a lot of people doing this at the minute.

I was so annoyed. I made him call back and say it is my degree, I worked hard to get that bit of paper, I didn�t find it in a box of corn flakes. (I was also not too happy with my hubby for not sticking up for me!)

After a long conversation, they said to him, �can you tell your wife just to print another one off��

Print another one off? From where? He said well to be fair, in Korea we can just print another copy off. I told him that in England it doesn�t work like that. Now get my degree back!

Again I made him call back.

I received it a couple of days later.

Has this happened to anyone else?

[Jeff's Cigarettes]

They probably scanned it for their purposes already...good market for that kind of stuff amongst the Koreans. Personally, I've never given my degree to anyone. I let them see it but that was all.

[Countrygirl]