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Tigerstyleone
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 Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 6:16 am Post subject: Do Not Mail your FBI CRC to the US Sec of State !!!!!! |
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They will lose it. They will sit on it. It will never get processed.
The authentication department told me they are 3 months behind.
Its now August and they are processing documents submitted in April
They also told me walk-ins get first service and they spend all their time servicing walk in clients while those that mail their documents get lost and misplaced often.
They told me to come in person or get someone to try and retrieve my FBI and and even then there is no guarantee they will find it. |
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plchron
Joined: 26 Feb 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Solution for apostille- It will take 2 business days at a minimum
You can get it done in California (and maybe other states). Almost all of you going over to korea have to stop in Cali anyway to fly through.
1.Take your CBC to any public notary (UPS store, postal annex, etc.). You can also take your degree if you need it.
2. At the store you say an oath affirming that the CBC is true ( and a separate one for the degree).
3. After that you go to the county clerks office and have them verify the public notary that gave you the oath. (documents 2 and 3 will be stapled together)
4. go to the sec. of state's office in Los angeles, wait in line, and they will apostille documents 2 and 3. (now you have documents 2, 3 and 4 stapled together).
5. Go home and staple the CBC to the back of the oath ( so the CBC should be on the bottom of the stack of papers).
After this you still have to send it into korean immigration, but they approved my paperwork recently (sometime in mid July).
A lot of people say that it isn't the correct way to go about things, and technically they are right. The california people are only apostilling your oath, not the CBC document itself, but the korean immigration people don't know or care. It will still say apostille on it. |
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TeaTime
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Agreed. I almost lost out on a job because of the Dept of State - it took four months and what I got back looked like it had a coffee stain on it! Heh.
If I had to do it again I'd use one of those apostille services, where you pay THEM to walk in and get it done. It seems exceedingly shady to me, that you can't use government services without paying a private company an exorbitant amount of money, but there it is... |
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tardisrider
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| plchron wrote: |
Almost all of you going over to korea have to stop in Cali anyway to fly through.
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marsavalanche
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
Location: where pretty lies perish
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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this is some pretty bad advice for a lot of reasons....
not everyone is going through la
not everyone has tha layover time to jump through those stupid hoops to get the apostille through the county clerk...
youre therefore implying people take a roadtrip to la when doing one in dc would get it done faster
ugh this thread is going to make for a lot of paranoid and confused newbies. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed. I almost lost out on a job because of the Dept of State - it took four months and what I got back looked like it had a coffee stain on it! Heh.
If I had to do it again I'd use one of those apostille services, where you pay THEM to walk in and get it done. It seems exceedingly shady to me, that you can't use government services without paying a private company an exorbitant amount of money, but there it is... |
Don't say bad things about coffee drinkers. |
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Tigerstyleone
Joined: 01 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| plchron wrote: |
Solution for apostille- It will take 2 business days at a minimum
You can get it done in California (and maybe other states). Almost all of you going over to korea have to stop in Cali anyway to fly through.
1.Take your CBC to any public notary (UPS store, postal annex, etc.). You can also take your degree if you need it.
2. At the store you say an oath affirming that the CBC is true ( and a separate one for the degree).
3. After that you go to the county clerks office and have them verify the public notary that gave you the oath. (documents 2 and 3 will be stapled together)
4. go to the sec. of state's office in Los angeles, wait in line, and they will apostille documents 2 and 3. (now you have documents 2, 3 and 4 stapled together).
5. Go home and staple the CBC to the back of the oath ( so the CBC should be on the bottom of the stack of papers).
After this you still have to send it into korean immigration, but they approved my paperwork recently (sometime in mid July).
A lot of people say that it isn't the correct way to go about things, and technically they are right. The california people are only apostilling your oath, not the CBC document itself, but the korean immigration people don't know or care. It will still say apostille on it. |
This is not a solution. This is insanity. |
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plchron
Joined: 26 Feb 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| you can do it in other states also. I just know about LA from experience. It sucks, but it is better than a three month wait from the state dept. |
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marsavalanche
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| plchron wrote: |
| you can do it in other states also. I just know about LA from experience. It sucks, but it is better than a three month wait from the state dept. |
how is that better for someone from the midwest doing it in dc?
lmao @ this clown who doesnt know what hes talking about |
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Tigerstyleone
Joined: 01 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| How is it better for people already in Korea? |
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:19 am Post subject: |
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I mailed mine in at the end of April, got it back in 5 weeks.
Don't believe the insanity. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| And you get a big thank you for letting us know that. |
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Modernist
Joined: 23 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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this is some pretty bad advice for a lot of reasons....
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Amazing, I actually agree with marsavalanche for once.
Yeah, this is remarkably stupid for anyone who doesn't live in LA. I flew from Chicago through LAX and had a grand total of 1 hour of layover, a big chunk of which involved standing in security and boarding lines. To get from the LAX area to the place in LA with the county clerk and SoS offices, is not reasonable for any non-Angeleno.
I sent my docs back in mid-March and had my apostille by mid-May. It can't be that much worse to consider something like this. |
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3DR
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| plchron wrote: |
| you can do it in other states also. I just know about LA from experience. It sucks, but it is better than a three month wait from the state dept. |
how is that better for someone from the midwest doing it in dc?
lmao @ this clown who doesnt know what hes talking about |
Michigan does it as well. Speaking from experience. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:34 am Post subject: Re: Do Not Mail your FBI CRC to the US Sec of State !!!!!! |
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| Tigerstyleone wrote: |
They will lose it. They will sit on it. It will never get processed.
The authentication department told me they are 3 months behind.
Its now August and they are processing documents submitted in April
They also told me walk-ins get first service and they spend all their time servicing walk in clients while those that mail their documents get lost and misplaced often.
They told me to come in person or get someone to try and retrieve my FBI and and even then there is no guarantee they will find it. |
Might need to check your thread title. The Department of State is not the same as the Secretary of State. DOS is in DC. SOS is for the individual states. |
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