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[Bingo]

What about persons who have dual citizenship? Koreans, being as thick as planks in administrative manners, are surely going to be baffled by this. There are many people here who were born in one country, but spent their entire adult life in another. Many still travel on the passport of their native country. If we show Koreans a criminal record check from the country where we spent our entire adulthood, are they going to be completely and utterly puzzled when it's from a country other than that stated in our passport?

Are they going to insist, instead, that what they need is a criminal record from the country whose passport we travel on, irregardless of the fact that we may have left that country as infants (and couldn't possibly have a criminal record there)? Will they disregard the criminal record check from the country where you spent your entire adulthood as useless and unacceptable? I can just see the nonsense now.

- "Oh, Mr. Smith. We can't accept this criminal record check from the USA. You travel on a British passport, not an American passport."
- "I simply do that for convenience and sentimental purposes. I left England at the age of two months. The chances of my having a criminal record there are pretty slim."
- "But your alien card says 'United Kingdom', so immigration can't accept a criminal check from the US."
- "But Mr. Kim, I have lived in the US for thirty three years. I left the UK as an infant, still in diapers, at eight weeks of age."
- "I know, but they say the check must match your passport. I'm sorry, they can't accept a criminal check from the US."
- "Fine, I'll get one from the UK too and submit them both to immigration."
-"No, no. You don't need to do that. The UK check alone will be good enough."

Should I simply anticipate Koreans' utter lack of common sense and get one from my country of birth, rather than where I spent my adult life? (I don't want to screw myself over by failing to consider Korea's dynamic sparklieness when it comes to logic.)

[cbclark4]

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