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minos
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
Location: kOREA
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 Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:38 am Post subject: Do Pakistani/ Africans/ SE Asians come here on C-3 visas? |
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C-3 short term buisness visa sponship: 3 months and requires a sponsor.
I'm working for an export company. We get alot of online inquries from these areas.
Most seem interested and then imediately ask for visa sponship and details so they can "visit" Korea to see the merchandise.
I assume it's a scam that invovles them running off the minute they set foot at Incheon since they can't get tourist visas(it's much harder).
Am I right? I don't want blow off real clients who MIGHT actually want to visit in person. These guys are wasting my time!
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I wonder if that's how all the third world guys hanging around Itaewon got here. They sure didn't come on the investor visa. Factories that hire them usually are outside Seoul or in Incheon. |
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dongjak
Joined: 30 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:51 am Post subject: |
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| Many Nigerians are here on D-8 investors visas. Why are you so sure they aren't here on that visa status? |
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cheolsu
Joined: 16 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| Pakistan and Nigeria have combined populations of about 400 million people. I could believe that some of them are here on business. I once met a Pakistani man in an airport in Kyrgyzstan whose business was importing Japanese cars and car parts. He didn't look all that rich, and he might not have been, but that's what he did. |
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minos
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
Location: kOREA
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| dongjak wrote: |
| Many Nigerians are here on D-8 investors visas. Why are you so sure they aren't here on that visa status? |
It requires $50,000 in the bank. Perhaps the guys at UN club and Geckos are all wealthy buisness men. The Cheap cologne, shirts, and offers to buy substances of dubious nature must have confused me.
Some are on it, but most third world folks are clearly on some other visa.
I just wanna find out how this scam works. I just wasted the last hour talking to a guy who i'm sure wants a visa. You'd be surprised how much time these guys will waste.
My favorite is a guy who claimed I was a fake korean from China who proceeded to quiz me on seoul subway stations and universities before claiming I was a scammer. I gave him some brief seoul quiz which he failed and then asked for the visa.
Last thing I need is some guy bailing on us and committing crimes. Since we're the sponsor, I'll assume we'll take a hit for bringing criminals into the country.
My boss has hired under table workers for minimum wage work so they're not all here on legitimate visas. He says they always ran away from the police. |
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dongjak
Joined: 30 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 1:14 am Post subject: |
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I don't know much about Southeast Asians or Pakistanis, so I would not like to venture to guess what kind of visa status they are on.
But many if not most Nigerians and Ghanaians are here on D-8 visas, others are married to Koreans and have switched to an F series visa. Some also come on the C-3 visa, but those are usually richer men who have a business back in Nigeria so they don't live here full time. The ones on the D-8 visa send cars, auto parts, electronics and clothes back to Nigeria. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 2:06 am Post subject: |
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Out of the small sampling of Nigerians I have met here, I was surprised to find out how many of them were here studying Korean.
The thing is, they never seemed to go to class. /shrug |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 4:22 am Post subject: Re: Do Pakistani/ Africans/ SE Asians come here on C-3 visas |
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| minos wrote: |
C-3 short term buisness visa sponship: 3 months and requires a sponsor.
I'm working for an export company. We get alot of online inquries from these areas.
Most seem interested and then imediately ask for visa sponship and details so they can "visit" Korea to see the merchandise.
I assume it's a scam that involves them running off the minute they set foot at Incheon since they can't get tourist visas(it's much harder).
Am I right? I don't want blow off real clients who MIGHT actually want to visit in person. These guys are wasting my time!
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I wonder if that's how all the third world guys hanging around Itaewon got here. They sure didn't come on the investor visa. Factories that hire them usually are outside Seoul or in Incheon. |
C3 is a tourist (short term general) visa.
C2 is short term business.
If they have the paperwork for a valid business then they probably are potential clients. You also have the option of going to them once or twice a year for a trade show.
If they don't they they are probably looking for an easy way in.
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minos
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:06 am Post subject: |
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That's the problem Tompattz. Faking a buisiness license is pretty easy in their home countries.
In some cases they don't own a license, but whoever they work for wants them to work abroad illegally so getting paperwork is easy.
Some scammers screw exporters out of $10k-50k with fake credentials.
I will admit, I haven't had any scammer nigerian emails yet. Maybe they do have D-8 visas. |
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