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[Cherbear]

My recruiter told me that Canadians no longer have to include the vulnerable sector search with their background check. Has anyone else been told this? Also, this is my second time going, and this time they told me that I have to get the background check notarized both locally then agian by the Korean Consulate. Is this true?

[nachoinkorea]

Yes, as of Jan. 2009 Canadians DO NOT NEED A VSS. All you need is either a local background check from your local police force or your provincial police force, or an RCMP check. I do not recommend the RCMP check as it can take months to get one.

Since Canada is not a signatory to the Hague Convention on Apostilles you cannot get any documents apostilled in Canada. Instead, you need to take your background check to a public notary first, have them notarize it, then take it to the nearest Korean diplomatic post and have them stamp it. Before you do this you should contact the diplomatic post first to make sure you don't need anything else (every Korean diplomatic post seems to have its "own rules" for processing a visa, better to check before hand).

[TheUrbanMyth]

[nachoinkorea]

Sorry, I don't have a link for it. This is what I was told by my Administration Officers and I have hired Canadians since Jan. '09 without a VSS..

I suspect that Immigration and the Ministry of Justice didn't want to make a press conference about this as that whole fiasco made them look tards.

After I was interviewed in the Joongang Ilbo about the VSS http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2897140 (I was the source for this article) the Ministry of Justice finally admitted that they had never bothered to inform the Canadian Embassy about the VSS requirements. I later found out that a Korean consular official in Toronto had heard about these checks (without bothering to do any research on them or check with Canadian authorities) and recommended them for Canadian teachers. The MOJ agreed, again without bothering to check with Canadian authorities. The Canadian Embassy finally told the MOJ late last year that the VSS is ONLY for domestic purposes in Canada and it is illegal to be used overseas.

[losing_touch]

I took a peek at the immigration site which I believe used to mention the VSS. There is no word on it now. It states the following regarding Canadians: