Korean Job Discussion Forums

sadsac · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Gwangwang

Airport immigartion will only issue a single entry, not a multiple. Better to get it done at your local immigration office. Smile

ekim · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Location: Ansan, Korea

I won't make it to the airport until around 9pm, Friday night. Will the immigration office there be A: open at that time, and B: easy to find, since I won't have a ton of time?

Thanks

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

kiwigirl :O) · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Bundang

i am from nz and i applied for mine at the local immi office along with my arc and for both it took one week.
i went back the next week and i was able to pick both of them up (i think the reason for the delay was they had to send the docs to daegu .... i live in pohang) and they were stamped by the daegu officer

it depends on where you apply and what nationality you are (in terms of free or 50k multi entry)

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

While i think Americans are supposed to automatically get a Multiple Entry visa, I didn't 2 visas ago. I got it in Argentina and the poor guy at the embassy seemed to have never given a work permit in his life. So, I had to go pay the 50,000 at immigration like everyone else. Be careful, Americans, you'd better check to make sure that yours says multiple.

Drew345 · Joined: 24 May 2005

I had that same E-2 hassle cruisemonkey was talking about, only mine came at departure. The exit stamp guy told me that my 12 month multiple entry visa E-2 was actually only a 90 day single entry (dispite what it says on the visa) and sent me to get a reentry permit. The reently permit lady told me I didn't need the reentry permit. The first guy then chased me down on my way to the departure gate. Their boss then told me I did need a reentry permit. Another lady from the front office (in the departure hall) called in to say I didn't need the reentry permit. So they totally hacked my passport with various 'voids' and 'cancelled's and I left. When I got back to Kroea I expected the same trouble, but the enrty immigration oficer didn't even blick an eye and stamped me back in on my E-2 visa. I am out of Korea now and will enter again just before this one year visa expires. Now I hope I don't get one of those immigration agants in a bad mood who will only let me in on a toursts visa. It is strange that they see a one year multible entry visa so rarely that they don't know what to do.
Anyway, it should be good one year and for multiple entries, and the people at the front office (in the departure lounge) seem to understand this visa more than the stamp in stamp out agents.
Good Luck, Drew

VanIslander · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject:

Two questions.

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Sorry VI, but you need to have your ARC.

(You have a way of messing these things up!)

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:18 am Post subject:

I just got my ARC! (on day 89, talk about cutting it close! bali bali last minute paperwork as usual, still, thanks to the director, wish I'd told him to get a multiple entry too at the same time, but oh well)

Now, can I just show up at an immigration office and get it done in an hour? Some say so.

What does one need to bring? Myself, my passport, ARC and what else? a bit of cash probably. do i need my director? anything signed beforehand? anything else?

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:23 am Post subject:

cruisemonkey · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject:

At Masan Immigration I went in, filled out the form, gave them my passport, ARC and W50,000. Total elapsed time for multiple re-entry stamp in passport - about 20 minutes (most of that was filling out the application). However, they were not busy at the time.

kevitachimaru · Joined: 24 Nov 2010 Location: South Africa

Hi everyone, I'm new here, and was wondering if anybody can help me with some information.

My girlfriend has a degree and is set on teaching in Korea for a year... I myself don't have a degree, but want to go with my girlfriend to Korea. I have a large amount of money saved up and would like to go with her, but not to work at all, is there any way that I can go with her on a tourist VISA and then leave the country every three months or something to that effect?
I called the Korean embassy 'VISA' section and the lady said that I can go there without a VISA and will get issued a 30 day pass of sorts when I enter Korea, she then said that I would have to go and apply for a multiple entry VISA once there, and then leave the country every three months and I would be able to stay the full year that way. She said that this is totally legal.

Unfortunately my girlfriend really can't go to Korea without me, and I would like to be able to go for the year so that she can at least do what she wants to do, and have me with her.
Does anybody know if that information I mentioned above is correct, or does anyone know of somebody else who has done this successfully before?