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michaelambling
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
Location: Paradise
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 Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject: Visa waiting is driving me nuts |
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| My employer went to immigration last week, and they told me my visa should be done by the 27th. Argh, I can't take this waiting--why does it take so long? What are they doing with my documents for two weeks? |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Waiting to reject you, what else? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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I remember sitting for days on the porch of my locked-up vacated home in Canada awaiting the registered mail delivery guy with my papers to fly to my first job in Korea, almost 10 years ago. Itching to go, wheres the damn paperwork? Eventually came & a long forgotten incident, until your post.
Best luck in ROK! |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:24 am Post subject: Re: Visa waiting is driving me nuts |
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| My employer went to immigration last week, and they told me my visa should be done by the 27th. Argh, I can't take this waiting--why does it take so long? What are they doing with my documents for two weeks? |
It really doesn't take very long to process the paperwork. I've seen it done in under two hours from filing the documents in the Immigration Office till the Visa Issuance Number is issued. But, yes, they will usually take several days, up to two weeks, to do the processing. Other than the actual paperwork processing time of an hour or so, the papers while away their sojourn in the lovely environs of some dusty in-basket on some barely busy bureaucrat's desk, waiting, waiting, waiting... Imagine the life of a poor, lonely document... |
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michaelambling
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
Location: Paradise
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: Visa waiting is driving me nuts |
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| ontheway wrote: |
| michaelambling wrote: |
| My employer went to immigration last week, and they told me my visa should be done by the 27th. Argh, I can't take this waiting--why does it take so long? What are they doing with my documents for two weeks? |
It really doesn't take very long to process the paperwork. I've seen it done in under two hours from filing the documents in the Immigration Office till the Visa Issuance Number is issued. But, yes, they will usually take several days, up to two weeks, to do the processing. Other than the actual paperwork processing time of an hour or so, the papers while away their sojourn in the lovely environs of some dusty in-basket on some barely busy bureaucrat's desk, waiting, waiting, waiting... Imagine the life of a poor, lonely document... |
A single tear falls
The paperwork waits alone
Waiting to be filed |
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sarbonn
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, many of us have been in the same exact situation. I remember the frustration of waiting for that paperwork to finish. And then it did. And in days I was in Korea. Thinking back, I kind of wish it would have taken longer.... |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:26 am Post subject: |
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This isn't related but kind of a strange visa anecdote. I was getting my ARC in Cheong-ju, and my boss was chatting with the female immigration employee. They both started chuckling, and she kind of rolled her eyes.
I asked him what that was about, and he said she used to work in Seoul. She was the immigration officer who admitted the Canadian who got busted for child pornography in Thailand. I asked my boss if she got ran out of Seoul. He said "I don't know. Maybe.". |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| The first time is always the hardest. Probably because that's when most people are shortest on cash. |
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