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[interestedinhanguk]

[interestedinhanguk]

[SandyG21]

I understood this to mean if you were in Korea or another country outside the USA you could just have the FBI send it directly for authentication.

If you are in the USA the FBI check is sent to your address and then we have to resend it for authentication.

Again more time and money!

And in this day and age not only should it be faster - but why not just set up a way for some of this to done by computer or fax machine?

If they allowed scanned fingerprinting - it would be faster - if some documents could be scanned or faxed - faster - if the consulates or immigration would allow the government to contact them directly it would be faster.

Really there are more ways for the documents to be faked by hand (and or messed up and lost) then if they would just allow computerizing directly government to government or faxing government to government.

Also why not have passports somehow directly linked to fingerprinting as well?

[MA_TESOL]

The FBI received my papers 21 August according to EMS tracking and I haven't even had my credit card debited yet. Is it that slow now, or do I have a problem

[PCRamplified]

It's just that slow. I sent mine in end of June-beginning of July. Card expired at the end of August. They didn't get around to trying to charge it till September. I had to re-submit the credit card forms which probably made it take a couple of weeks extra.

[interestedinhanguk]

[SandyG21]

I was responding to a previous poster.

Personal attacks are unneccessary.

I was just making everyone aware that the directions are being interpreted differently by different people.

[millyfrend]

FBI Background Check is slow because everyone is sending in their fingerprints, check out the forum, everyone is waiting for it. They don't have enough people to process the background checks? It should be computerized. My friend got her FBI Background Check, but she only had 1 week to get an apostille before submitting it to immigration. She had to hire an agency to expedite the process because it would have taken like 3 weeks, she got the Department of State apostille in 5 days through Apostille Pros, just in time to get it to Korean Immigration.

There's gotta be a way to talk to congress about expediting FBI Background Check, 7-12 weeks to get a FBI Background Check is really unacceptable. She called the FBI agency, South Korea teachers aren't the only ones getting the check. It's finance workers, teachers in Spain, all over the U.S. people are asking for FBI Background checks for employment purposes that's why it's taking so slow.

They should just do it by social security or something.

[millyfrend]

Is this a new law or something in Korea? Cause someone I know said they got the FBI Background Check notarized and apostille in the state and it was accepted by Korean Immigration. That was 2 months ago. He said, to do that because it's much faster than getting it from Department of State.

But did Korean Immigration change the rule recently? Cause 2 month ago, fbi background check was accepted as notarized and apostille in the state.

[SteveJobs]

[SteveJobs]

[SandyG21]

I wanted to do the digital fingerprinting but was informed that digital fingerprinting (which is faster) was unacceptable for going overseas for visa purposes. Only the old fashioned ink stamp prints were acceptable.

Were your digital fingerprints accepted for the Korea work visa?

[austinmc86]

it seems the changes have been postponed for a year (if you're renewing).

[SteveJobs]

[SandyG21]

In my state digital/scanned fingerprinting is done by one agency that travels around the state - they send the documents to a code number directly (school, agency, hospital) - not to the person being fingerprinted.

Therefore in order to get an FBI scan - it requires going to the police - getting an old fashioned ink stamp card - mail it with documents and wait an average of 12 weeks.

I have no idea if other states do the digital/scanned another way.

I was told the scanned/digital is not an FBI CBC - but is done by a privately owned company.

That is what is available in my geographic area.


Side note is CBCs checks are beginning to be a for profit business - my local school system is now using HIRE Right a for profit company rather than the less expensive and quicker state CBC.

Hire Right is definitely for profit - they tried to charge me extra - saying I lived in multiple counties - until I protested the charges on my charge card - I found out they have been doing this to al ot of local teachers in my area.