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7969
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Location: Taiwan
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 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject: notarized copy of diploma.... |
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i was in bangkok early this year and took my original degree to the korean consulate to have a copy made and certified as i had found a job and wanted to send the certified copy to the school in korea to get the blue visa paper. well, the korean consulate in bkk told me that i first had to take it to my own consulate to have them do something to it first. the koreans never said what it was that the canadian consulate in bkk had to do but in the end i never bothered with it. why would i be required to take my degree to the canadian consulate first? do they have a database contianing the name of every uni grad or something to ensure no fake degree holders get through?
by the way, i've worked in korea before so i know how to get the visa if at home. the rules for getting the visa in a third country seem to be different though.
warmest regards ~ 7969 |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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I think your best option is to get your degree notarised in the country it was issued in. You can do it via mail. But it goes without saying that you should use registered post for it
I was a canadian living in New Zealand (although I attended a new zealand university) and didn't have any problems.
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Just got a notarized copy of my degree at the embassy a few days back. 17,000 won, about 10 minutes. |
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camel96
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| 7969 wrote: |
i was in bangkok early this year and took my original degree to the korean consulate to have a copy made and certified as i had found a job and wanted to send the certified copy to the school in korea to get the blue visa paper. well, the korean consulate in bkk told me that i first had to take it to my own consulate to have them do something to it first. the koreans never said what it was that the canadian consulate in bkk had to do but in the end i never bothered with it. why would i be required to take my degree to the canadian consulate first? do they have a database contianing the name of every uni grad or something to ensure no fake degree holders get through?
by the way, i've worked in korea before so i know how to get the visa if at home. the rules for getting the visa in a third country seem to be different though.
warmest regards ~ 7969 |
Jesus Bangkok.
No wonder they were suspicious.
Seems half the fake degrees in the world these days come out of KS Rd.
The Korean consulate in Bangkok has no idea if a degree from the University of Saksatchwoon or wherever is real or not. So they want your consulate to verify it as being real before they will. When I was in Bangkok earlier this year with my girlfriend who is American she was told they no longer notorize American degrees at the Bangkok Korean consulate now because the US Embassy refuses to verify them first. Whether this is still the case I don't know. In fact whether this was ever the case is also debatable. Either way I don't care she said what she said and she wasn't notorizing that degree for all the money in the world.
Sometimes getting degrees notorized in 3rd countries can be a real pain in the ass. On another jaunt the Consul in Kathmandu didn't even appear to know that foreigners were working in Korea - let alone know the procedure for notorizing degrees. The number of "Aieesssheee"s he said when he saw our previous E-2 stamps was priceless. |
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