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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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- get documents
- come to Korea on tourist visa
- find job and apply for a work visa
- wait for immigration to give you your visa issuance number
- school pays for plane ticket (anything else, such as accommodation, is up to them)
- fly to Osaka/Fukuoka
- submit visa issuance number to the Korean consulate and pick up your passport the following day
- return to Korea and begin working
You can stay at a goshiwon for like 300-400K or so a month. |
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jacksthirty
Joined: 30 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't read the other thread. Why can't you get an F visa? Surely that would save time.
But
You could apply for several schools in advance (but not through a recruiter) and visit them at your lesiure. Might be less stressful. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| jacksthirty wrote: |
| I didn't read the other thread. Why can't you get an F visa? Surely that would save time. |
This is precisely why people are getting annoyed at the OP for starting five different threads about what is essentially the same problem. |
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Stew -
I'm not the masochist. By definition, I would be a sadist - I enjoy watching other people suffer.
What part of this don't you understand?
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=215261
You ran, you asked how to come back. Ttom gave excellent advice, modernist told you to tone down the hyperbole, I even chimed in my experience/knowledge on the F-2 route. Of course, there were so many problems that existed here, you couldn't bother to sort them out.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?p=2737066&highlight=#2737066
More comments telling you to get the F-2 and work in Korea as your wife couldn't work anywhere else.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=216431
People explaining that running is not a crime, that you can get the visa, that coming back is not a problem.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=216609
This is my favorite post - carbon hits the nail on the head:
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| What opinions or advice can be given? You either have all you need or you don't. What you don't have, you need to get. It really doesn't seem there is much left to say besides good luck with your situation. |
A link was even given to a thread explaining how the consulate is frequently WRONG regarding F series visas and how the financial capability can be met via holding a job. Did you even read that link? Follow up on it at all?
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=216851
Asking about jobs - another gold nugget quote in here from modernseoul:
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| OP having read in your previous posts about your situation I'd say honestly and in the nicest way "beggars can't be choosers". You said you wanted to teach adults so go for the adult role, however going for all 3 increases your chances. |
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=216919
You looking for an adult job, with ANOTHER fantastic quote:
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| ...I would be happy to pay my own flight... |
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=216972
A thread that NO ONE RESPONDED TO BECAUSE IT ASKS THE SAME QUESTIONS AS THE PREVIOUS THREADS.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=216821
A nice thread that AGAIN asks about coming to Korea first and finding a job; something which had been recommended over a month ago in a previous thread.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=217011
My second personal favorite - where you ask about getting a new passport so immigration won't know who you are! Two fantastic quotes in this one, the first from you:
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| I don't see how I can be penalized for not telling the truth... |
and the second, the real gem from Carbon:
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| Perhaps your next boss will say the same thing. |
That one really made me chuckle...
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=216562
Even more "can I come back/get the F visa/I can't" garbage.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=217991
The final thread (yeah, right!).
You've been trying to get something lined up since December. You've asked the same questions in almost a dozen different posts. You've lied to recruiters (a sin of omission is just as bad as a sin of commission), you're planning to lie to immigration. You claim that immigration has you flagged as a runner, yet everyone and their sister knows runners who have had no trouble in returning. I cited ttompatz as the one I will believe on your story because he actually works with immigration and foreigners - he is the end-all-be-all of immigration knowledge on this forum. He said in a couple different threads that you shouldn't have any trouble.
I won't call you a liar, but I think the dozens of folks who have chimed in on runners/visas, ttoms information, and the general experience that everyone on here has had do a pretty good job.
it's been 3 months since you posted your first post on this situation. I got my first job in Korea - found it, applied, got it, visa application, passport mailed off and back, and on the plane to Korea - in under a month. I got my second job in a very specific area, with a very specific set of criterion in about 6 weeks.
Finally, Mr My-wife-sacrificed-her-family-to-marry-me-and-is-living-without-me-Hyperbole... Well, enough said on THAT front.
Long story short - you're whining, a lot, and not doing diddly squat to rectify the situation. Plenty of excellent advice has been given, yet you keep whining.
I haven't really thought of myself as a sadist, but got to say - this whole situation does make me smile.  |
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YTMND
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Location: You're the man now dog!!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| jacksthirty wrote: |
| I didn't read the other thread. Why can't you get an F visa? Surely that would save time. |
This is precisely why people are getting annoyed at the OP for starting five different threads about what is essentially the same problem. |
He's got his 10 step signature plan down:
1. Go to Korea on an E2
2. Meet Korean woman
3. Marry Korean woman and ignore F visa options
4. Piss off the in-laws
5. Leave Korea with wife by doing a midnight-runner
6. Piss off employer
7. Do nothing and wait for Korean wife to return to Korea
8. Go to Korea again, forgetting everything that happened but make sure immigration knows first
9. Post on Dave's for advice, don't follow any of the suggestions
10. Start a new thread and repeat 9 ad nauseum
I am hoping that part about getting a job on a tourist visa was a slip of the typing tongue, or else this guy is just messing with us and waiting for the moderators to close the thread and tell him to stop all this.
I can't believe anyone in their right mind would be posting like this and not already on a plane to Korea. Get your documents, then go to Korea. Interview in person. Then work, don't piss off the employers or inlaws this time. |
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