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I heard on the radio that tourist visa restrictions for Koreans entering the USA are relaxing.

Has anyone heard of this? I can't find anything online.

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Possibly Koreans will be able to stay in the US for up to 90 days with no visa, but not until 2008 at the earliest. If Korea rejects less than 3% of US visa applications for 2 or 3 years than it will happen.

laconic2 · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Wonderful World of ESL

lastat06513 · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:36 am Post subject:

Very true...

The rejection rate from the US state department must fall to or below the 3% mark before being considered for the visa waiver program.

I can see that happening as alot of people are going to wait for the visa waiver to kick in before thinking of going to the US (except those going on business trips or to study).

But (and there is a big BUT).....

Once the visa waiver does start, you will see more and more Koreans overstaying there stay there or going underground to look for work.

I'm sorry for saying this, but I am totally opposed to the visa waiver idea for many reasons;

1. There is not nor never will there be a reciprocal agreement that will allow Americans to stay in Korea for 90 days visa free for fear that alot of deadbeat Americans will start coming here and taking over the ESL market (and you think the ES scandal was bad)

2. This will be abused to the highest extent by the Koreans. As you see on the news (or in Korean business in general), everytime a Korean businessmen is investigated, they always run away from the country to avoid prosecution. Now, it will be 2-ended. Everytime a Korean commits a crime, they can run to the US to avoid prosecution and everytime a Korean or Korean-American commits a crime, it can easy run to Korea for a period until things cool down (kind of like the way Mexican gangmembers run to Mexico to avoid getting caught in the US).

These are 2 things the Korean and the US government must tackle BEFORE thinking of giving Qoreans a visa waiver to visit the states.

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:35 am Post subject:

The reason the USA doesn't let Koreans have the visas now is because of the mass of human trafficking/prostitution problems that have erupted in the past.

It will come back.

noguri · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Location: korea

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

http://english.tour2korea.com/01TripPlanner/EntryInfo/entry.asp?konum=1&kosm=m1_2

Am I reading this list right -- it means Americans can stay in Korea with no visa for 30 days, right?

peppermint · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject:

The US and Korea are about to start negotiating a free trade agreement, and this visa issue is one of the things on the table is all.

laconic2 · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Wonderful World of ESL

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

I heard the same thing in regard to the FTA talks. I'm not sure if this is really going to ever happen.

I wouldn't count on it, it's a long shot in terms of it happening.