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mike in brasil · Joined: 09 Jun 2003

Sent off the fingerprints on 12/8 and got it back 1/20.

Sent it back out for the apostille on 2/8 and I'm still waiting for it....... I should get it soon though~

clewis · Joined: 29 Dec 2010 Location: Anyang, South Korea

R. S. Refugee · Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Location: Shangra La, ROK

I haven't read everyone of the posts on this thread. There are 10 pages after all. But I have read enough to notice one interesting thing that I wasn't aware of before.

And that is this. That you can get your FBI CBC apostilled by your local state's Sec. of State instead of the national Secretary of State. So, I just want to confirm that. Is that true? My local state Sec. of State is much easier to deal with than the national one, so I hope it's true that you can do it that way.

Thanks.

clewis · Joined: 29 Dec 2010 Location: Anyang, South Korea

toonchoon · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Location: Gangnam

CBC came back exactly 1 month after I sent it to the FBI. I sent from Seattle, and it came back to my parents house in Seattle. Very very short time. I paid with a USPS Money Order, and sent the envelope "Priority Mail".

I didn't apostile it yet, since Korean immigration extended my visa due to an FBI check being on file from a while back (forgot about that one!).

Yellowstone_1872 · Joined: 12 Nov 2010

millyfrend · Joined: 29 Apr 2010

They barely ran your credit card after 15 days, you're not going to expect it for another month.

Hokie21 · Joined: 01 Mar 2011

Got an offer today to start teaching in Mid-May. Woke up, got fingerprinted, filled out the forms and sent them Priority to the FBI to get done....evidently I live in one of the states where the SoS will NOT sign off on my forms so I will have to have that done by the US Dept......it's going to be cutting it seriously close I fear.

Yellowstone_1872 · Joined: 12 Nov 2010

matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

Can anyone verify if the FBI does not forward the results to a secretary of state even if all of the details and payment information is there??

Sure would be nice to process the apostille a bit more quickly.

Hokie21 · Joined: 01 Mar 2011

millyfrend · Joined: 29 Apr 2010

They don't.

jamiemexi

Joined: 13 Feb 2010

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:32 am Post subject:

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This is just the time to get the FBI background check. 7 weeks. If you're overseas in South Korea, what you would do is forward the background check to an apostille agency address like Apostille Pros, www.apostillepros.com

They will get it notarize and apostille and mail it via FEDEX to South Korea. This process takes 2-3 days from the time they receive it. So 7 weeks for the FBI background check and 2-3 days for the notary and apostille to be sent to South Korea.

If you're in the U.S., you can do it yourself or have an apostille agency do it for you.

For FBI background check prints, just look at your prints, if the prints are smeared, do it again cause the FBI operator won't be able to match the prints to their database; then you're just going to wait another 7 weeks. So the important part is the taking the prints on the FD-258 card or the online printable fingerprint paper.

Majeh · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Location: South Korea

On 28 Jan 2011, I sent my fingerprints to the FBI via Korea Post's Express Mail Service (EMS). I got my FBI report w/ the agency's seal and section chief's signature today via FedEx.

Will try to send the FBI background check to the US State Dept either on Friday or next week.

nyc2010 · Joined: 21 Feb 2011

From California

Sent to FBI: 02/03/2011
Received by FBI: 02/07/2011
Credit Card Charged: 02/19/2011
Received CBC: 03/07/2011

sadguy · Joined: 13 Feb 2011

i sent mine in mid january, the fbi ran my card on feb. 4th. still no word. others have been getting there's back in a month or less. is there anyway to find out if they've finished it?