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[Greekfreak]

Both of my jobs required transcripts, neither were fly-by-night schools, and in lieu of a 'new, unblemished' diploma, my alma mater sent me a proof of graduation, which cost nothing at all.

Transcript ordering takes between 2-4 weeks depending on how it's shipped. Fed/ex works fine.

[waterbaby]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

No, but the degree had to be an original in Daejon.

[lucretzia]

I only had to get a copy of my transcript because it said "college" on my degree certificate, rather than University. They wanted to make sure that I had done a three year degree, not two.

I would have thought that Immigration would know the English education system by now (that a BA(hons) requires 3 years of study) but it appears not!

[harryh]

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[kylehawkins2000]

Hey Slinky, your uni sounds f'd up. They won't give you transcripts? what's up with that? I've gottern transcripts from my Uni at least a dozen times. I have to pay 5 bucks each time but no big deal. As far as I know there are no "Original" copies, just "Official" copies. Meaning they are signed and on University letterhead.

I needed transcripts for my first job, but didn't need them this time around. I suspect that it is not necessary but they can be asked for at the discretion of the Immigration office.

FOreign consulates and embassies have exact info on their websites. Just search for "Korean Embassy Canada" or somthing along those lines in Google.

[waterbaby]

kylehawkins2000 - looks like some of my students sneaked into your avatar with their crayons.

[The Cube]

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[The Lemon]

I wish they asked for transcripts more often. Anything to cut down on the bogus credentials flying around here.

When I've been asked for transcripts, schools and immigration have been happy to take transcript photocopies that I happen to have. I offer to have "official" ones mailed to them directly, but they never take me up on it.

[gjk08]

I'm have problems getting my offical transcripts. I have my unoffical transcripts. I was told Immigration requires transcripts to verify that your diploma is from a 4 year university and not a 2 year Junior/community college. My idea is to send a letter and some information about the uni i attended saying it's a 4 year school. Think that'll work? I sure hope so!

[BTM]

Odd. I graduated from UBC 14 years ago, and just visited a couple of months ago, went to Student Services, asked for Official Sealed Copies of my transcripts, and $14 later and a couple of weeks later, I had them in hand.

I had assumed all universities would do this.

[panthermodern]

with regards to wether you need transcripts or not one must remeber that there are very few "fixed rules" in Korea.

"Fixed Rules" are a western concept.

Immigration and/or your school can require whatever they want and arguing "I don't have to...." will get you no where.

I had to submit transcripts once in 6 years and it was a witch.

Generally if you are here you can get away without them by saying that your University can't or it is very time consuming to ship them overseas.

[some waygug-in]

My university told me that they would only send official copies of my transcripts directly to another school or university. They refused to let me have a copy. I also had to pay a hefty fee for each copy I wanted sent out. I think it was about $50.00 Can. So far, I haven't needed them here. If they ever ask, I just say, "sorry, I don't have them", and they always seem to carry on without them.

I have been accused of having a fake degree a couple of times though, but that was after I was already working. (I think the hagwan boss was trying to bully me into working cheap!)

Cheers

[kimcheeking]

I have ordered transcripts from my university web-site. No problem. I think it cost me cdn$6

[Squid]

The school last year took both the degree and transcript. Got back the degree, on demand, a few weeks later but was told the transcript had been kept by immigration.

I ordered 3 sealed transcripts from my Uni. via their website, but they had to mail an authority to me, to sign, then return it with about fifty bucks US. Got the transcripts though- whole process, about 6 weeks.
More inconvenient than anything else.

As usual with these traps for young players, most of which I have dived headlong into, it's best if something awry does occur to address it immediately, otherwise you'll stress it.

As for notarisation of the degree itself, it's best to do that at the Korean embassy before you leave to come here then scan it. That's been no problem for me with job applications. Harry- maybe you could get a family member or friend to do that for you in your home country then send it to you.