Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Hanson]

Simply put, what requirements, for work-related visas, could a country like Korea impose on its applicants?

If a country required applicants to provide fingerprints, I'm guessing that would be legal, right? If, for stupidity's sake, Korea required footprints of both feet and applicants were to have them notarized for an application to be successful, I'm guessing it could impose that as well. Finally, if it required potential foreign workers/residents to, say, off the top of my head, require CBCs, drug and HIV tests and a note from your mother, it could do it, right?

Can't a country require whatever the hell it is they want from foreign workers/residents, or is that "discriminatory"? If it is discriminatory, how?

BTW, this has absolutely nothing to do with any other threads on Dave's at the moment...

[ajuma]

Have you ever been from a 3rd world country and tried to get a visa to work in the US??? Do a little search on google and you'll be suprised!!


http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/visa/visaFULL.html

[Jammer113]

Well, of course certain things can be discriminitory. However, discriminitory laws can still be perfectly legal. It's just that severely discriminitory laws can cause a country lots of problems in the global arena.

Korea could easily require that only blond haired, blue eyed people between the ages of 22 and 26 and without freckles be allowed to teach English. They just have to pass the law. If they did that, however, it would:

A: be against the constitution. (I think)

B: cause a huge uproar both inside and outside of the country.

Ignoring or bending the constitution is common for many countries. And if they wanted to, they could just change the constitution. Then it's even constitutional.

Causing a huge uproar, however, would create instability in the country as well as hurt the country diplomatically and economically. Furthermore, it would just cause private English education to go underground.

[berrieh]

A country can do anything it deems legal and appropriate within its own constitution or legal framework (remember: Your nation's laws don't apply). The U.S. discriminates in issuing visas, as does every major nation in the world. They make it easier for the people they want and harder/impossible for the people they don't.

If they seem too arbitrary, it can hurt their standing in the global community but there are no global work visa laws that nations must conform to. So long as they don't require you to undergo torture or some other human rights violation, international law doesn't generally apply.