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thrylos
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 Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:19 am Post subject: To those with dual nationality children here |
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Quick logistics question: If my half-Korean daughter born here, with a US passport but without any kind of alien registration (since she's registered as a Korean citizen on my wife's paper), leaves Korea for the US on her US passport, how does she re-enter Korea on it without any kind of visa? I don't want to use two passports for the same trip, or must I?
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:51 am Post subject: |
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If you are only going to use your US passport for her, she needs to get a visa, and she will be treated as an *alien*.
Otherwise you need to get her a Korean passport - that is her only form of ID.
What's wrong with using two passports? Mine does every single time. |
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Dude Ranch
Joined: 04 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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What's wrong with using two passports? Mine does every single time. |
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sigmundsmith
Joined: 22 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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I have dual nationality. On one passport I have me E2 visa and on the other I use it for travel.
Have never had a problem. It is completely legal.
So when I leave Incheon I have my passport stamped that has the E2 visa and when I get off the plane of wherever Im going I use my other passport.
Have entered a country before and then they ask where I have come from because the dates don't match up. I just show them my other passport.
No problem. |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
If you are only going to use your US passport for her, she needs to get a visa, and she will be treated as an *alien*.
Otherwise you need to get her a Korean passport - that is her only form of ID.
What's wrong with using two passports? Mine does every single time. |
Two passports, easiest and most proper method when traveling as a dual citizen. |
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Dude Ranch
Joined: 04 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Remember to save every piece of documentation and keep precise records. You never know when your daughter will need it. It might not be until she is an adult and wants to work in one of the two countries and needs proof of the two citizenships. Get it all done now and make sure she gets all the documentation, passports, citizenship cards she can possible get. A second passport can really come in handy. It is a great thing a parent can help their children with. It opens up more opportunities and possibilities. She might not realize it when she is young, but she will thank you for it one day. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Dude Ranch wrote: |
| tzechuk wrote: |
What's wrong with using two passports? Mine does every single time. |
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Leave Korea with Korean passport...enter other country with Canadian passport...return to Korea use Korean passport. It makes like easy.
My friend didn't do this and her son needed an ARC, which IMO is a pain in the butt. However, she didn't want to worry he will be called into the military one day. |
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Confused Canadian
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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A family we know 'forgot' to get their daughter a Korean passport before traveling abroad a few years ago. Their daughter left Korea with her US passport and re-entered Korea with her US passport. As a result, she entered Korea as a US citizen, and effectively lost her Korean citizenship. Her parents had to renew her visa (family visa, I think) each year for the next couple of years.
However, I think on a recent trip, they were able to regain her Korean citizenship by going abroad and re-entering with a Korean passport (or something like that). Don't know/remember the exact details, but a definite pain in the butt.
If you want your child to retain Korean citizenship for the time being, be sure to leave and enter Korea using her Korean passport. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
If you are only going to use your US passport for her, she needs to get a visa, and she will be treated as an *alien*.
Otherwise you need to get her a Korean passport - that is her only form of ID.
What's wrong with using two passports? Mine does every single time. |
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My kids have two passports as well. |
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GwangjuParents
Joined: 31 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:46 am Post subject: |
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If she's a Korean citizen, she MUST enter and leave Korea on a Korean passport even if she has an American, etc., passport, or you will have big problems.
I learned this the hard way.
Make sure your K-kids get a Korean passport before leaving Korea or be prepared for mega headaches!!!!
Also, she's not 'half-Korean'... 'half-American'... she's bi-cultural. I hate the term 'half'. |
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Dude Ranch
Joined: 04 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| I would say get both passports right after she is born. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Home sweet home
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Dude Ranch wrote: |
| I would say get both passports right after she is born. |
And keep renewing them. My mom, not Korean, made the mistake of not doing that because Romania was a horrid place at the time. NOW, that it's in the EU, she's kicking herself, because the RO embassy WON?T renew her passport. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| naturegirl321 wrote: |
| Dude Ranch wrote: |
| I would say get both passports right after she is born. |
And keep renewing them. My mom, not Korean, made the mistake of not doing that because Romania was a horrid place at the time. NOW, that it's in the EU, she's kicking herself, because the RO embassy WON?T renew her passport. |
But if she was born in Romania, and hasn't renounced her citizenship, then she should be able to get a new passport. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Home sweet home
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
| naturegirl321 wrote: |
| Dude Ranch wrote: |
| I would say get both passports right after she is born. |
And keep renewing them. My mom, not Korean, made the mistake of not doing that because Romania was a horrid place at the time. NOW, that it's in the EU, she's kicking herself, because the RO embassy WON?T renew her passport. |
But if she was born in Romania, and hasn't renounced her citizenship, then she should be able to get a new passport. |
YOu'd think, right?
BUt, to renew your passport you have to provide them with your RO marriage cert.
To get your marriage cert, you have to provide them witha valid RO passport.
Their logic is that since she left RO years ago and doesn't speak Romanian, then she's not Romanian. They said if her dad can go to the embassy and swear that he didn't renoucne citizenship, they'd give it to her. He's been dead nearly 15 years now, so that doesn't help us.
I've been fighting this for nearly 9yeras. |
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