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tfunk
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
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 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:01 am Post subject: What happens if immigration refuses you entry? |
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Hypothetically speaking, you show up at immigration, there's a reason why you can't enter the country...what do you do?
How do you organize flights etc. and where do you stay? |
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balzor
Joined: 14 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:33 am Post subject: Re: What happens if immigration refuses you entry? |
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| tfunk wrote: |
Hypothetically speaking, you show up at immigration, there's a reason why you can't enter the country...what do you do?
How do you organize flights etc. and where do you stay? |
call your recruiter or your school. hope they can figure it out, otherwise try to jsut get a tourist visa or something temporary. otherwise start checking out return flights |
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Carla
Joined: 21 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:37 am Post subject: Re: What happens if immigration refuses you entry? |
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| tfunk wrote: |
Hypothetically speaking, you show up at immigration, there's a reason why you can't enter the country...what do you do?
How do you organize flights etc. and where do you stay? |
If you get flat out refused entry, the airline is responsible for repatrioting you.
Which is why they usually check to make sure your visas/tickets are in order. |
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maryjanes
Joined: 22 Jul 2009
Location: Cheongju
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| do not pass go, do not collect �200 |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: What happens if immigration refuses you entry? |
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| balzor wrote: |
| tfunk wrote: |
Hypothetically speaking, you show up at immigration, there's a reason why you can't enter the country...what do you do?
How do you organize flights etc. and where do you stay? |
call your recruiter or your school. hope they can figure it out, otherwise try to jsut get a tourist visa or something temporary. otherwise start checking out return flights |
I'll be applying for a tourist visa but I don't have a ticket home. That's where I see the problem arising - immigration might refuse me entry based on this fact.
The reason that I don't have a ticket home is that I am owed a ticket by my recruiter (previously teaching in Korea for a year but traveled around Asia, now returning to Korea for a month). The recruiter wants to buy my ticket in the last week of my stay in Korea, because the tickets are cheaper out of Korea at that time. |
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aussieb
Joined: 08 Sep 2007
Location: Brisbane,Australia
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know about you being refused entry into Korea but if you were trying to leave Australia as a tourist, you would not be allowed to board the aircraft without a return ticket. |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Is there no accommodation for people who may want to buy ticket in-country?
Is it possible to fake an e-ticket or can they reference it on their database?
Edit: apparently it is possible to fake an e-ticket. http://travelvice.com/archive/2006/03/faux-onward-tickets.php |
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Bust through security and take to the streets running. Then you can join the legions of "foreigners living illegally in Korea" that the KT are constantly referring to. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I just did the thing you are concerned about, Mr. t-funk, and I had no problem at all. Not only that, but I left here as a tourist Sunday and came back Monday and got another tourist stamp with no return tickets whatsoever. No questions, no issues. I made sure to have an address listed and some other documents in case anything did come up |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks people. I just got an informative PM from bacasper, so I'll post it below. Immi gives you chicken sandwiches, French fries, Coke and phones...if you're smart you can set up a phone teaching gig!!
I have another question. If you can buy a ticket home after being detained, will immi let you enter the country or are you blacklisted as an offender (attempting to enter the country without return ticket)?
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If you are refused entry, Immigration ahs a detention area at Incheon where you will stay until you buy a ticket home - so it can be hours, days, weeks, or months. It is up to you.
You will be fed a chicken cutlet sandwich, French fries, and a coke three times a day. There is a TV and telephones but no internet access. You will meet a wide variety of interesting characters there. I wonder if the two Somalis who had been there for a couple of months at the beginning of the year are still there.
If you are there overnight, you will sleep on the benches there.
Have fun!
I can't post now, so if you want to post this, go ahead. |
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