Korean Job Discussion Forums

[crushhatch]

I am trying to see if anyone has answers to my problem. I just got an interview but the problem is that will I be able to obtain an E-2 visa to work in Korea.

The problem is that I have one incident of retail theft from high school and that's the only one. What are the possibilities of me getting an E-2 visa?

[Tobias]

You should see if you can get that charge expunged before doing anything else. Some states will allow charges to be expunged if they're 'minor'. If you can get it sealed, do that and then start applying for jobs. If you can't get it expunged, I don't know what to tell you. I've heard both sides here. Some say your record needs to be spotless to get a job in Korea. Others say you can get a job with 'minor' offenses on a CBC. It probably depends on which consulate looks at you and where you're applying.

One thing you can always depend on in SK: it's consistently inconsistent. Ditto for this site.

[macaronique]

This has been repeated 50 times. Get one from a diffrent city in the same county. They dont know the geography cause they havent been there. It wont show up. Trust me this is from experience.

[Tobias]

[moosehead]

[Tobias]

Yes they do.

If you've been convicted of a crime, your fingerprints are taken and sent off to the FBI. If you get your record expunged later, your record is sealed, which keeps the general public's eyes away. However, law enforcement entities such as the FBI will know about you forever....unless you get a pardon.

Do you think the FBI discards people's records that have been expunged? Dream on. Only a pardon will remove a person's record from the FBI files.

I guess there could be rogue agents out there who could wipe one's record clean for a substantial fee. There's always an avenue left open for those with the green stuff to pay the gatekeeper. Better have a scoop of green, though.

[moosehead]

you've been watching too much tv.

no, it doesn't. you are wrong.

and very very paranoid I might add.

heck, you are talking about a federal agency that didn't even have their computers networked in 2001 and limited access to the internet. an agency that had been hacked numerous times.

not to mention courts across the U.S. are not all run the same - many are vastly overburdened, understaffed and underpaid. to think they ALL send - or have sent - every single fingerprint and conviction record to the FBI - ?? are you kidding me??

get a grip. maybe now that's the case but pre-2001, maybe even 2002 or 3, nope, didn't happen.

[Tobias]

Paranoid? Try realistic. Me? Watch TV? That's funny.

Do a wiki on the NCIC. Or, better yet, the IAFIS.

Ignorance is bliss, or so they say. Another one who thinks he'll be fine if he gets an expungement. Like I said...keep on dreaming. The FBI keeps records on people that you never dreamed they'd keep. And I'm talking records that go back to the days of the FBIs favorite cross dresser.


The FBI has its own version of Big Blue. And Big Blue never forgets. Big Blue does more than merely play chess, my naive fellow.

[moosehead]

sorry you really don't know what you are talking about.

in order to keep records, one first must have the records.

ergo - no records - no file.

[John_ESL_White]