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mack the knife

Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| What that meams is that your visa must not expire within the next 6 months or you may be denied exit or entry to some counties. |
OK. So I'm just reading it wrong. That's good news. |
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ajuma

Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:04 am Post subject: |
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If you want to renew or get a new contract and your passport has fewer months than the contract, your ARC/visa will only be good until your passport expires. When you get your new passport, you have to go back to immigration to get the "full" visa on your card and in your new passport. I renewed mine almost a year early since my visa expired in February and my passport in June. I didn't want the hassle of going to immigration a second time.
As to the OP's question: Why would ANY government want to keep a foreigner who didn't want to stay??? |
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hogwonguy1979

Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
If you want to renew or get a new contract and your passport has fewer months than the contract, your ARC/visa will only be good until your passport expires. When you get your new passport, you have to go back to immigration to get the "full" visa on your card and in your new passport. I renewed mine almost a year early since my visa expired in February and my passport in June. I didn't want the hassle of going to immigration a second time.
As to the OP's question: Why would ANY government want to keep a foreigner who didn't want to stay??? |
WRONG!!!!! I got my US passport renewed in Oct (it was to expire in May) just went to immigration filled out a form telling them my passport number had changed, they entered the new info in their computer, issued me a new re-entry permit to put in my new passport and that was it. no new ARC, nothing added to my ARC and, no new visa. When I went back to the states I showed my new passport with my now old ARC and had no problems.
Man the misinformation on this site is amazing |
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ajuma

Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:45 am Post subject: |
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Hey! This happened to my collegue. When he went to renew his visa, his passport was due to expire within the next 6 months. They only stamped his passport AND wrote on his ARC card the last date that his visa was valid! He had to take his new passport to immigration after he renewed it. It's NOT misinformation...it's a fact!
hogwonguy1979: When did your contract/OLD visa expire? If it was between October and May, then of course this wasn't an issue! |
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Yu_Bum_suk

Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Did a bunch of posts to this thread get deleted? If so, why? There was nothing controversial about it. At any rate, as I think I clarified yesterday (in a post that has mysteriously vanished) I did in fact make a trip to Immigration to register my new passport number after I got my passport renewed in Korea. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| I heard of no such nonsense when I got my (Canadian) passport renewed in Seoul. |
Same here. |
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Yu_Bum_suk

Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| I heard of no such nonsense when I got my (Canadian) passport renewed in Seoul. |
Same here. |
Though, as I mentioned above, I did have to register my new passport # with immi. |
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