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[lugnaquilla]

I'm tearing my hair out trying to get information on obtaining a C3 visa for my girlfriend. I've rang Korean Immigration a few times and they won't help me despite having information in English on the hikorea site. I arranged a meeting this morning at the Immigration Office in Mok-dong to go through the process, only to be met by a clueless ajossh who spoke no English. It is very demoralising to come up against this lack of information or even clues to point me in the right direction from Korean officialdom.

She is currently here on an artist D1 visa which is due to expire soon. She has two exhibitions coming up in April and June and has letters of invitation from the gallery curators. As she is from a country that doesn't have a visa arrangement with Korea, she can't simply come back into Korea on a tourist visa. She therefore has to be invited. I need to know the process for obtaining a C3 visa. I e-mailed the Korean consulate in Shanghai and they said that they don't proces C3 visas to people who are not residents of Shanghai and the surrounding districts. I cannot contact the Korean embassy in Beijing. It seems she would have to get a Certificate for Recognition of Visa Issuance in Korea and then use this to obtain the visa in China.

Any help anyone?

[valkyrian2]

double posted here:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=115821