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[alejovoz]

Hello all,
Let me thank those for any advice/suggetions/n advance. My situation is this: I have taught in Korea before a year ago. I was teaching at one school for a short while yadadayada things didnt work out so I switched to another hagwon. I had to get a new E2 visa . Long story hort I ended up swichting one more time and by the time I was done I had issued to me 3 or 4 E-2 visas all within the same year.
My question is this:
I have tried to return to Korea having a hagwon sponsor me to issue me a new E-2 visa this time and Immigration will not give me one due to this bad history. What can I do?
Just give up posting here for answers? or are there alternatives I am not aware of?

[Ya-ta Boy]

You changed employers 3 or 4 times in one year?

It is most likely that one or more of those employers put a nasty note in your immigration file. It will be very very difficult to overcome that. Even with one bad note in your file, it is difficult. You would need someone who can persuade Immi to remove the note. That is a lot easier said than done.

I guess my question is: Why would you want to come back to Korea if you had such bad luck here the first time? Maybe you should consider China, Taiwan or Thailand.

[poet13]

Hello alejovoz! Ya know, I just can't resist. After you lit into me some time ago on a decent, sane thread I started, and followed that up with your foul PMs along the lines of, "shut the f up, you piece of sh#t", I decided to make it my lifes mission to torment you. I do try and be a respectful and polite member of this online community, but in your case, i will make an exception...

So...... here we go.

When are you going to fix your grammar you sick, freaky, psycho, weirdo?

Yeah, that was it. I can't go much lower than that.

[heydelores]

alejovoz,

You have received some good suggestions to this question already. I'm not sure anyone can do better for you. Here are some things that have been said before:
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1) Can you just use a new passport?
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2) You have 2 options.

Try again with another recruiter unless you actually got a real letter of denial from immigration. They may have just checked your history and said no thanks and blamed immigration.

I assumed that since you said, "I have taught in Korea before a year ago," what you meant was that your departure was more than one year ago.

If you have in fact been labeled "Persona Non Grata" by immigration then you are out of luck. Try Japan or Taiwan or China. a BAN by immigration will typically be either 2 years, 5 years or life.
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3) Why come here then? Go to China, Japan and any other country. It isn't that hard to do.
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4) I think it's worth another shot with a school that will go through a different immigration office from the one(s) with which you have a prior history. You never know - your new prospective employer may have some pull or some charm or be a regular bribing customer.

[Son Deureo!]

One way around this is to have your name legally changed in your home country. New name = new passport = second chance.

I guess it depends on how badly you want to come back.

[jacl]

Four E2s in one year. Must be some sort of record. Can anyone top that?

[RachaelRoo]