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nshadow · Joined: 24 Oct 2003

Really, i jsut ended my job here in korea and just got back my diploma and transcripts.

Transcripts not sealed, but bought an org. envelope and make a fresh Seal of the State of California stamp. Went through, no questions asked.
I think the demand from hogwans to immigration is getting to them and they just push them though. Just looking at them: sealed, stamped, not opened, has org. diploma.

Unless immigration starts to demand DNA fingerprints or the university systems in the U.S. have an open database system for immigration to check, don't think it will do much.

I think if someone has a TELF or some other english lang. qualification it should be considered better. But this is Korea and I laugh sometimes when I see them start something new.
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Penelope · Joined: 23 Aug 2005

Thanks for the help. My main concern deals with the horror stories I have heard (there are so many... so, so many) of people having their diploma 'held hostage' until they do what the director wants, ie. stay extra time, etc.

d3773 · Joined: 19 Oct 2005

I'm absolutely livid.

I'm now on my third attempt to get the transcripts from my University.

#1. Got lost in the post... surprise, I'm in Thailand.

#2. Sent with a tracking number through DHL. Envelope has been opened with scissors, and then sellotaped back together:(

#3.... Still waiting.

Ah, what a pain. I'm starting to think that my only option is to fly back home and get them myself.

hari seldon · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Location: Incheon

benblex · Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Location: Seoul, South Corea

got a new job (non-teaching)

they need the basics: copy of passport, diploma, and TRANSCRIPTS.

according to everyone no this thread, the sealed transcripts are necessary for VISA PURPOSES.

what if i already have an f-4 visa (they never asked for transcripts) and don't need the employer's e-2. do they still need these documents or would it be too much for me to say NO?

otherwise, if i DO submit those documents (which i don't mind doing really) where do they go? frankly, i don't feel comfortable having my new employer reading what grade i got in so and so 3 years ago in college. are they going to actually read my transcripts, or is it just sent somewhere like immigratno STILL SEALED?

thanks.

hari seldon · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Location: Incheon

benblex · Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Location: Seoul, South Corea

hari,

does that mean they could drop you if they don't like your grades, even after you've been hired? or is this unlikely...

if i have an f-4 is it the company that's looking at my transcripts or the immigration office, or is it usually both anyway? or do neither look at it.. argh.

hari seldon · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Location: Incheon

bitter_hag · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Songbird1979 · Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Location: Back in Oz, onto Korea Jan 06

Not to mention just how expensive each transcript is in the FIRST place Evil or Very Mad

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mysteriousdeltarays · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

To Hari Seldon i got them but no they won't just send them anywhere. Some 911 paranoia routine but then mine have all sorts of "confidential" information on them social security number, date and place of birth etc.

I have several but it was a strange project all told. Certainly a lot of 3:00 A.M. phone calls to kids who are just part time workers. They all had wild names like Barbie, and Heather. You can't just wire them the money you have to buy money orders etc. I had sense enough to way overpay, obviously by normal mail it could take a very long time.

Obviously nobody really has a firm grasp on this. I can say from my own experience they will send them to universities and they will send them to the embassy. They will send them to your parents (if they haven't moved) and oddly enough they will send them to your old university address. Haven't been there in years (hope they still have the keggers.)

All this created by one recruiter (I so love them) a former major advertiser on this site I might add.

The heyday of the forged documents was ten years ago when all the recruiters were born. It was not uncommen for them to send X off to a job using the papers you had submitted to them. I assume they are still doing it. Worknplay will probably be a fertile field for immigration to plow in the near future.

The recruiters often remind me of cults. Cults often seem to like to release sarin gas into the subway system or else drink cyanide laced cool aid in the middle of the jungle.

The recruiters it seems all end up in jail eventually. So many I can name from the past have.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

Songbird1979 · Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Location: Back in Oz, onto Korea Jan 06

Mine is about AUS$20 for EACH one Sad

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Hey, while I'm here.....(I know this is a totally inappropriate place to say this but I'm DESPERATE!!).....if ANYBODY knows of any openings (I don't care, kindy, whatever)from 26 December through to about the end of January that will ACCEPT Aussies.....I really need a job, desperately! Why the hell do I keep getting rejected?? I'm sorry to say this, but I'm starting to feel bitterness against North Americans........