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PeragroVeritas
Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Location: Anyang, South Korea
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 Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:27 am Post subject: Contract End Date and Visa Expiration Date Discrepancies |
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Please, someone help. My contract is scheduled to end August 23rd, however my visa expires August 17th. My boss said that this should not be a problem when I am trying to leave the country, although I am not sure that I believe her.
I am planning to come back next year to teach but I can't tell her that due to certain circumstances and I just want to make sure that if I leave for two weeks to go back home a week after my visa has expired that Immigration will let me in again with no problems, or will they red flag me thinking that I was teaching on an expired visa?
Any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:36 am Post subject: |
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| two weeks to go back home a week after my visa has expired |
This.. um.. what does this mean?
Anyway, if you change jobs, you have to get a new visa anyway. Just get a week extension for your current visa. |
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JAWINSEOUL
Joined: 19 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| You need an exteniton to avoid the 100,000 won fine per day for overstaying your Visa. |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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You need to extend your stay on your E-2. You should just be able to take your ARC, your current contract, and some paperwork from your boss about his business to the immi department and they should extend it with relatively few hassles. I think there's a fee of about 30.000 for this, but that's better than over-staying just one day and getting a 100.000 fine.
To straighten things out, if your ARC expires on 17 August, you must be out of the country on that day. Immigration does not really care about "but my contract expires on 23 August and that's why I overstayed my VISA." Just go beforehand to immi and get the one-week extension.
If you do overstay your VISA, I don't think you'll get flagged, you'll just have a nice fine to pay.
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: Re: Contract End Date and Visa Expiration Date Discrepancies |
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| PeragroVeritas wrote: |
Please, someone help. My contract is scheduled to end August 23rd, however my visa expires August 17th. My boss said that this should not be a problem when I am trying to leave the country, although I am not sure that I believe her.
I am planning to come back next year to teach but I can't tell her that due to certain circumstances and I just want to make sure that if I leave for two weeks to go back home a week after my visa has expired that Immigration will let me in again with no problems, or will they red flag me thinking that I was teaching on an expired visa?
Any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated. |
This is or should be in the stickys....
You MUST LEAVE Korea or get an extension before 11:59pm of the expiry date indicated on your ARC. Note here: Leave Korea means you have exited through passport control at the airport (or ferry terminal), not that you are necessarily on the plane yet.
You can get an contract extension until the end date of your contract. This will entail taking your contract or a contract extension with CLEARLY indicated end date, your passport and your ARC to the immigration office, fill in the application and pay the 30k won fee. This extension is ONLY good until the final date indicated on the contract.
You can get a SHORT extension (up to about 2 weeks) for the purpose of tourism and finalizing your affairs in Korea without charge by going to the immigration office with your PASSPORT, ARC and AIRPLANE TICKET out of Korea.
Note here: no ticket = no extension. They will mark the new exit date on the back of your ARC. This cannot be extended beyond that date. |
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