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Dlee · Joined: 03 Feb 2007

Hi,
My fiancee is living with me in Korea. I am a teacher at an international school and he is studying online. For the last year he has been on a H1 working holiday visa. His visa runs out on the 9th- so we left to go to CHina for CNew Years, with the plan of him re-entering with a tourist visa, and then we will get married in the summer. When we were leaving- the man who checked his passport said that he is not allowed back into the country. Why would this be the case? I contacted my school and they seem to feel that if we re-enter it will be fine, and that this was just a guy trying to give us a hard time.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

What country is he from? Are you a Korean girl?

dimitri31 · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

If your fiancee is American, then he can re-enter on a tourist visa. not sure about citizens from other countries.

lastat06513 · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

Americans are not allowed H1 visas, usually those are given to people from commonwealth countries (England, Australia, New Zealand,etc.)
However, if he is an American, he IS allowed back into Korea either on a 30-day entry stamp or he can go to the Korean embassy in Beijing and get a C-3 visa that allows him to stay for up to 90 days for a period of 5 years.....

The only way he can be blacklisted is if he did something wrong.....I think the immi officer meant that he can't come back to Korea on the same visa (though that is also highly suspectable)

I would call immigrations to make sure.........

As for people of from other countries, their visa rules differ as much as the immigration officer that determines them.....

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

What is you bf's nationality on his passport?
Did he get the infamous black stamp?
or was it just poor English on the part of the official telling your bf that his H1 was no longer valid?
Or is your bf trying to wiggle out of his commitment to you? Wink

Find time on Monday to visit or call the nearest Korean Embassy in China.

Dlee · Joined: 03 Feb 2007

Just for clarification- we are both Australian. He didn't do anything wrong (that we know of!) and he didn't get a black stamp (what does that mean?). The guy did write something on a stamp in his passport, but we don't know what it says!
As Aussies, our tourist visa is 90 days.

lastat06513 · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:52 am Post subject:

Then if he is an Aussie....he would have no problem coming and going because as you said, they get 90 days on their tourist visa......however, it might be good to know what they wrote on the passport.....but if there is a black mark on him from Korea, it might appear on his travel record (it is something that is seen by immigrations when they scan the person's passport upon entry into another country).......once you both return to Australia, casually ask the immigration officer if anything was written on his travel record from the immi. officers in Korea

Alot of people get blacklisted and all they do is just get a clean passport and go back