Korean Job Discussion Forums

shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

Well, with the new addition of 26 lettered pages (they give you letters as extra pages in a US passport) I'm up to 51 stamps. That includes 3 used E-2 visas, 2 prior C-3 visas, my current C-3 and one visa extension stamp from when one of my bosses slacked getting E-2 papers. The rest are ins and outs. I was going to try to count up the Korean entry/exit stamps, but some of them are fading/hard to find in the confusion. I just noticed they used a variety of entry/exit stamps over the past 3 1/2 years. Perhaps a new stamp every year?

How many stamps do you have? - and do you also get a kick out of watching the immigration official searching for the last entry stamp/correct visa? Actually this time it was making me sweat bullets, he must have thumbed through it 15 times before laughing and stamping.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject:

47 in total -

Australian study visa
Korean work visa(2 jobs' worth)
China visa
3 stamps for transferred money...
In and Outs for a bunch of countries

To make it easy on the immigration guy/girl, I usually find the relevant stamps beforehand and mark the page with my plane ticket. Saves time and makes their job easier.

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

10-12. something like that.

I have never seen a stamp for transferring money, though they do look at my passport. 2 from Japan, 2 from HK, 2 from Macau, and a bunch from Korea for visas, re-entries, stuff like that.

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

One I guess... I've entered Korea one time and that was the first time I'd ever owned or used a passport.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

I don't know how many stamps are in it, but after 22 months there is only one clear page for my visa run. I guess I'll have to get some sort of extension or new passport. The woman who contacted me from the Canadian Embassy told me I would have to get a new one. This sounds wrong to me. Can't Canadians get extra pages when they still have 3 years + left on the passport?

jaebea · Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Location: SYD

I'm with ryleeys, and I'm a bit of a travel noob. I'm hoping to pad it out a little for my own pride's sake.. :)

This is a new passport I've obtained in October.

A pair in/out of Korea. A pair in/out of Japan. And waiting to close off another pair in/out of Korea when I depart next week.

Since I've only been jetting around as a tourist, the Australian passport lets me go pretty much whereever without the need for big visas.

jae.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

my canadian passport is about 2/3 full, I have had it for 3 years.

I would say about 30 stamps at the moment.

Patong Dong · Joined: 06 May 2003 Location: On Nut

For a passport I got in dec 2001 I now have only have a half page free. I have 5 full page jobs, one from Taiwan, 2 from Thailand and 2 from Korea (my company made a mistake and I had to get a second e2 after the one I got in Bangkok).

What really filled it up was living in Thailand for over a year before I got a job and a work permit so I had to do an entry/exit every 30 days. The Canadian embassy won't add new pages and they say I need my birth certificate and 127 000 WON for a new one, talk about helpful, and don't smile in the photo now.

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

Patong Dong · Joined: 06 May 2003 Location: On Nut

I prefer to call it the time saving somewhat round about way. But yeah, most of the time I took it to a law office where they took the fee and two days later brought it back. They always had a huge stack of passports.

hojucandy · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: In a better place

well over 100 stamps in my 5 year old passport.

my previous life as a png government veterinary officer entailed a lot of international travel to conferences etc... sometimes i wonder why i am here and not there! (i was led here by a woman would you belive it?!)

the one i am most proud of is the stamp i got when i left australia via thursday island and flew into daru in png by light aircraft - just a short flight. "departed australia, thursday island". a rare one that. when i arrived in png, the immigration officer in daru had gone home so i met him in the pub that night and he stamped my passport there over a few south pacific lagers.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

lawyertood · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject:

95 (and counting) since 22 Feb 2000....(most related to Korea and Thailand)

97 in my last passport

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

73...I'd have more (I didn't count the money transfer stamps...they stopped doing that a long time ago), but a lot of European countries just look at your passport at boarder crossings...you have to BEG them to get them to stamp it! (I know...I had to do that to get my Czech teaching visa...the boarder guard was laughing...thinking "Stupid American just wants stamps in her passport"...but I REALLY needed it for my work visa!)