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endofthewor1d
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| anyway... thank you all for the advice you've been so kind to give me in the past hour or so. wish me luck with this, and wish me luck now that i have to leave this pc bang and go break the news to my girlfriend that we might have to postpone our relationship for five years or so. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Bet you wish you were Canadian. |
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qwunk89
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| actually, i was in almost the same situation; except I overstayed an e2. i didn't have any problems getting my next e2 a couple of months ago, but i wasn't applying for work at a uni. it seems to me your just getting shafted for some reason - you should resubmit your application and see what happens. |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:54 am Post subject: |
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| Sorry for the bad news, but it doesn't look good. I had to wait almost 6 weeks for my visa. The only reason I got it was because the owner stood by me. I heard that immigration actually asked my boss not to put the application through. It seems like since the konkuk uni. thing they are really being hard. I don't think that ESL law could do much, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try. All I can say is good luck. |
but that's the thing... the big difference between this and the konkuk incident is that i am perfectly legit. i just overstayed my tourist visas a couple of other times. stupid? yes. worthy of a fine and a slap on the wrist? maybe. worthy of me not being allowed to teach in the country anymore? i wouldn't think so.
it really was an innocent mistake. surely others have overstayed their visas before and suffered less harsh repurcussions than this. |
Sounds like your new employer isnt putting enough effort (ie. $$) to make this minor incident pass through. |
Underscore that. This is a country that moves for bribes. Small hagwons do it when MoE comes to check if their pyeong measures up to regulation. Or the subtle stuff like my first hogwan in Daegu, which employed 20+ teachers in the city, and the director having a yearly tradition of sending large gift baskets at Chuseok, to, literally, every single member of staff in Daegu Immigration, regardless if they work in the visa issuance department or not. Or my girlfriend's family giving a gift (500,000Won in an envelope) to the doctor who is expected to care for their ailing mother. My company's immigration rep left a thank you gift with our processing officer in Mokdong, when we expedited a D8 with minimal redtape. It comes in all forms. Have a talk with your school and see if you can up with a 'nudge'. |
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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EOTW:
Sounds like a confusing situation, indeed As I read your post I seemed to recall that Americans used to get 90 days on a tourist visa but it was changed to 30 days. My question would be "When did it change from 90 days to 30 days?" The second question would be "Did the change occur while you were in Korea?" It probably doesn't help at all. But I was just wondering. I think the other posters have a better bead, than I, on what has or needs to occur to help you out of the situation. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Teufelswacht wrote: |
EOTW:
Sounds like a confusing situation, indeed As I read your post I seemed to recall that Americans used to get 90 days on a tourist visa but it was changed to 30 days. My question would be "When did it change from 90 days to 30 days?" The second question would be "Did the change occur while you were in Korea?" It probably doesn't help at all. But I was just wondering. I think the other posters have a better bead, than I, on what has or needs to occur to help you out of the situation. |
Maybe in reciprocation for US fingerprinting and photographing arriving Koreans 
More seriously, I did not know it had been dropped to 30 days. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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good news, all.
looks like i'm in the clear. i got a definate yes from immigration for when i re-apply for my e2 visa. only thing now is that i have to be out of the country by friday, and the time that it will take for them to re-process my application could be a number of days longer than that. i asked about a possible extension of my tourist visa, and got a response that felt sort of like "don't push your luck". so can anyone suggest to me the cheapest place to do a visa run considering that i might have to live there for up to a week? |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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Beijing will be cheaper than Japan from the cost of living, POV, but is a tad more expensive flight-wise.
Check with www.kangsantravel.com before you decide, as they have great hotel/ferry packages to Fukuoka. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:15 am Post subject: |
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chronic,
you are a mother-f***king lifesaver!
before you sent me that link, it was looking as though i might have to spend three weeks to a month back home in the states, due to various uncertainties and complications in booking flights right around the lunar new year.
thanks to you, i am fukuoka bound. i can't express my gratitude enough. as soon as i'm not destitute anymore, i owe you a beer.
thanks again! |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| Teufelswacht wrote: |
EOTW:
Sounds like a confusing situation, indeed As I read your post I seemed to recall that Americans used to get 90 days on a tourist visa but it was changed to 30 days. My question would be "When did it change from 90 days to 30 days?" The second question would be "Did the change occur while you were in Korea?" It probably doesn't help at all. But I was just wondering. I think the other posters have a better bead, than I, on what has or needs to occur to help you out of the situation. |
one of the conditions of the acceptance of my re-application for my e2 visa will be an explanatory letter about why i stayed illegally in the past. if anyone knows the answer as to when the 90 day rule was changed to 30, it would be helpful to my letter. thank all of you for your advice and input so far. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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I think you're wrong about a recent change in tourist visas for Americans. I think that what happened is that you confused a tourist visa and a landing visa. Tourist visas (the C-3) are 90 days long no matter who you are. Landing visas (what you get if you arrive in Korea with no visa at all) vary according to nationality, and have been 30 days for Americans for as long as I've been here (3 years).
I hope that everything works out for you EOTW, and that you can still get that Uni job. Best of luck. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:24 am Post subject: |
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ah ha!
presicely the explanation i was looking for. this was indeed my misunderstanding. i only hope that the immigration official who reads my letter is more forgiving than the woman my would-be boss talked to on the phone today who asked him something to the effect of "why are you so hung up on this foreigner anyway?"
in the generalisations running through my head, i'm trying to keep her in the 'immigration official' category, and out of the 'korean' one. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| Damn dude. Wish I had some advice; I usually get the *beep* outta Dodge right after a contract ends, so no experience. Good luck solving the stuff. |
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