Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mackbeth1234]

Hi,

I'm currently living in Daegu, and have applied for a job with SMOE next year. They require my degree certificate to be notarized and apostillled, is there anywhere in Korea that I can do this?
I really don't want to have to send my degree back to the UK and then back to Korea!

Thanks.

[CentralCali]

I remember seeing only one place advertising a notray public in Korea. It's right by Samgagji Station in Seoul. It's at the top of one of the exits. Can't remember which exit though.

[StavvioD]

Try the British embassy near City Hall. I got my criminal record apostilled there for about 60,000 in February. Google the embassy and have a look on their site. I'm pretty sure they'll do it for you.

[gelynch52]

I am in Manila, The Philippines and reading the Manila embassy site it says that US embassies no longer authenticate US educational documents.

Authentication of American Academic Credentials for Use Abroad


U.S. embassies and consulates cannot authenticate diplomas or other documents from universities and other schools in the United States or provide notarial services related to such credentials.

PROVISO: Effective January 1, 1983, the U.S. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad ceased to authenticate or provide certified true copies of academic credentials, transcripts or degrees. The U.S. Department of Education determined at that time such documents are not required in the United States for persons who studied abroad who wish to attend primary or secondary school, or college in the United States. This was announced in a joint release by the U.S. Departments of State and Education published in the NAFSA newsletter of December/January 1983. The U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security also determined that authentication of foreign academic credentials generally is not/not required for U.S. immigration purposes.

[DHC]

U,S. Embassy will not authenticate educational documents. Korean notaries are attorneys and they will not notarize any foreign document as authentic. Korean Immigration will only accept notarized or apostilled documents from the country where the documents were issued.

[tired of LA]

[ttompatz]

American Embassies will not authenticate documents

BUT

What you do is take the document in question to YOUR embassy abroad and SWEAR AN AFFIDAVIT attesting to the AUTHENTICITY of the document and that IS acceptable to K-immi (in place of the apostille) for the purposes of obtaining or changing an E2 or gaining employment in a PS.

The same is true for the citizens of other countries who are living abroad and trying to get a visa to return to work in Korea.

First time E2 applicants have other issues to deal with as well.

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[djz]

Will the US embassy notarize a CBC?

[jpotter78]

From what I know, they will not notarize your CBC per se. They will notarize that you "swear" that it is an official document. This was acceptable last year, but I have heard (whether true or not, I do not know) that this is no longer acceptable.