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Darkray16
Joined: 09 Nov 2008
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 Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:58 pm Post subject: Possible to get FBI background check from Korea? |
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Does anyone know if it's possible to get the background check request done in Korea?
I know there is no office here that can do it. What I'm referring to is sending required materials from South Korea to the USA, then have them send the CBC to my family who will forward it to me.
Also, I was told that the FBI takes more than a month now to process a request for CBC now. I did it last year and it took them less than 2 weeks. Can someone confirm?
Thanks to anyone who can help. |
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passport220
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:57 am Post subject: |
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In a word "Yes". It can be done, you have the right idea, go to the FBI website, print the finger print card, go to a local Korean Police Station and let them take your finger prints, send it off to the USA. In your cover letter to the FBI, ask them to prepare the document for future apostille proceedure (they add a seal).
Link to FBI web page:
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/faqs.html
When your family receives the FBI record, have them send it to the US Department of State for apostille treatment, before they send it back to you in Korea.
Link to The Department of State, Authentications Office:
http://www.state.gov/m/a/auth/
Reports are that it is taking between 7 to 12 weeks for the FBI to do their thing. My outbound tracking number shows the FBI received my request on September 13, 2010 ... still no reply as of this date.
P.S. Should be 100% same proceedure, but I am doing this from Thailand |
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nstick13
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| You do NOT need an apostille if you're in Korea or will be in Korea in the very near future. Instead, you can swear an affidavit at the US Embassy. If you go look through the immigration website, it says that pretty explicitly. I've also posted it on this very forum at least 3 other times. |
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passport220
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| nstick13 wrote: |
| You do NOT need an apostille if you're in Korea or will be in Korea in the very near future. Instead, you can swear an affidavit at the US Embassy. If you go look through the immigration website, it says that pretty explicitly. I've also posted it on this very forum at least 3 other times. |
The reply to the last thread you wrote it in:
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3 weeks. Call your congressman and press the fact that time is of the essence. The FBI even paid for FedEx Priority shipping for me.
Remember that apostille can be done here in Korea via the US Embassy; no need to send it off again. |
From the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
http://www.asktheconsul.org/E2Feb09.htm
A Note on Apostilles: An apostille can be issued only by the designated authority in that state. The U.S. Embassy cannot issue an apostille on any document. |
The US Embassy can not supply apostille services, they will however notarize your own affidavit where you state a document is true. This was okay under the old rules, but it is not entirely clear to me that this is still acceptable under the new rules.
Also, if you do not plan on working in Seoul. It may make sense to have the apostille done by mail anyway and avoid having to make a special trip / personal apperance at the US Embassy in Seoul to get it done. |
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nstick13
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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OK, the US Embassy in Seoul, while frequently informative, is not the immigration office. I would link directly to this, but the way the Korean internet works, I cannot.
A SWORN AFFIDAVIT CAN BE SUBSTITUTED FOR AN APOSTILLE.
Go to this website: www.hikorea.go.kr
Roll over "information" and then click on "immigration guide".
Find the row "Work" and the column "more than 91 days", and click view.
Under E-2, click "Eligibility/Procedure/Document".
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※ In case applicant stay in Korea and is sent Criminal Background Check by mail, Or one's entry to Korea is imminent, the document notarized by one's embassy in Korea may be exceptionally acceptable.
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Read and enjoy. Repeat as desired.
This site has screwed me. I found it whilst in Egypt last year before coming to Korea, and it informed me that CBCs had to be at no more than 6 months old, forcing me to book a flight back to the states for a week to get an updated one. This info was NOT noted on EPIK's site at the time.
If you're really that insecure about what they say, take a screen shot of it. Or pay to have you stuff mailed back and keep waiting until the US Gov't gets it back to you.
It seems on the other thread I misspoke by saying you can get an apostille at the embassy. It is, indeed, a "sworn affidavit" and not an "apostille", but Korean Immigration allows them interchangeably, it seems. Curious, because to me one is much, much less worthy than the other. |
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eliross
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Are those E2 Guidlines valid after Jan 1st, 2011? That is when the new guidelines take effect. |
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passport220
Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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nstick13:
Here is a link to the site you outline:
http://www.hikorea.go.kr/pt/index.html
It could be helpful information to me, so however it works out, thanks for posting it!
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| ...This site has screwed me.. |
If I was not insecure about it before, I am now!
Does anyone have first hand experience using an affidavit from the US Embassy in Seoul as a replacement to a state-side issued apostille for a FBI CRC? |
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eliross
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes but the policy has changed and a respectable recruiter told me the affidavit is no longer acceptable. |
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nstick13
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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@passport:
I should say EPIK screwed me by not sharing the info. I was fortunate enough to dig up the info on that site, otherwise I wouldn't have been awarded a visa.
The link doesn't work--it only directs you to their front page. Most Korean sites have the same "web address" for every page in their thing because their websites are software, not necessarily websites.
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This fun tidbit is from the bottom of the page, which I hadn't in fact gotten all the way through recently, (bolding mine, though this whole quote is highlighted and in a different color on the site):
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Special privileges granted to foreign language instructors selected through the English Program In Korea (EPIK) system (as overseen by Ministry of Education, Science Technology)
Visa issuance application and approval process will remain unchanged.
Certification of criminal records is exempted for foreign instructors that are extending their stay for the first time, if they have entered or registered as foreigner before the revision of the law made it a requirement. Also, instead of submitting their health examination records, they must submit HIV test results and drug usage test (TBPE test) results.
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If I wasn't done already, I'd ask EPIK about this. Maybe someone in-process can ask them and fill us in. Read, enjoy and repeat.[/b] |
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