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[Cerriowen]

I heard a while back that if you are IN korea and get your CRC sent here... you can write a letter saying everything in the CRC is true...

Then take THAT letter to the Embassy, and get it notarized, and get an apostille on THAT...

And you can get your E2.

Anyone do this?

[winterwawa]

I heard that the embassy DOES NOT notarize or apostillize anything. You have to send the document to the state department to get it apostized.

[polonius]

Depends on the embassy. The Canadian Embassy said they would notarize a CRC for 40,000 won.

[Ut videam]

The U.S. Embassy will not issue apostilles.

The U.S. Embassy will not notarize criminal background checks.

The U.S. Embassy will notarize an affidavit. An affidavit is a sworn statement attesting to some fact or facts. Thus, one could execute an affidavit attesting to the authenticity of a background check, which one would then attach to the background check. The embassy would then notarize this affidavit.

• U.S. Embassy notarial services: http://seoul.usembassy.gov/notarial_services.html (see "Administration of Oath")
• Procedure and sample affidavit form from a guy who's done this: http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?p=1485586#1485586

Korean Immigration has indicated that, for applicants residing in Korea, an affidavit or statutory declaration (Canadians & other Commonwealth citizens) notarized by the embassy would constitute acceptable authentication. In other words, such an affidavit/declaration serves in lieu of an apostille to authenticate the background check.

[Cerriowen]