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climber159
Joined: 02 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: Accounts opened with old ARC |
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Just wondering if anyone has any insight into this possible problem.
I finished my contract and left the country for a vacation and to obtain my new visa. Airport immigration made me surrender my ARC. I still have an active cell phone and bank account that I had opened using that ARC. I'm guessing my new ARC will not have the same registration number.
Has anyone run into this before? Was it a problem? |
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d503
Joined: 16 Oct 2004
Location: Daecheong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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I have an LG phone and a KB Star (kookmin) bank account. I did the same thing as you left them active when I left (I actually came back with a new passport as well). I didn't have any problem with either. I walked in said I had gotten a new card and they changed all the information for me. With your phone they actually make you come in once a year to update your information anyway.
Also if you are out of the country for more then a month or so, a lot of your accounts become deactivated. I had to use my card at a KB bank before I could use it again elsewhere, and I had to go in and reactivate my phone. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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OP, I believe that your ARC number is the same should you leave and return. It's at least partially based on personal info.
Can anyone confirm this? |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| When I changed jobs and moved from Daejeon to Seoul: new ARC, new number. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| New number? Okay. Live and learn. |
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inthewild
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:52 am Post subject: |
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I've had 5 E-2 visas in 3 different cities and I've had the same number all along, so I guess it's a tossup.
I was surprised when I had to drop 30k to get a reentry permit on my most recent trip out of the country cuz I had my visa extended. So I lost my multiple reentry permit that I used to automatically get. I don't know why I lost it for extending but that's how it goes.
I've only had to surrender my ARC on my way out once out of the few times I was leaving cuz my visa expired, the other times they didn't ask. Got the same number even though I was in a different city the next time. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:11 am Post subject: |
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For me, new Immi. office, new Arc= new number.
If you re-register at the same office, perhaps you get the same number again.
You will be able to use your bank account, but your passport will have to suffice as ID. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:18 am Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
| OP, I believe that your ARC number is the same should you leave and return. It's at least partially based on personal info. |
Not always. I've known people who have gotten the same number each time, and I've known people who have gotten different numbers each time.
I explicitly tell the immigration office to give me my old number, and they do.
| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
| If you re-register at the same office, perhaps you get the same number again. |
Not always. I've had two different numbers from the same office before. I didn't start getting the same number until I started requesting it. The one time I forgot, I got a new number.
Five different jobs, four different offices == three different ARC numbers. |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| When I changed from an E2 to a D4 I was given the same number. |
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climber159
Joined: 02 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks. |
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loose_ends
Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:09 am Post subject: Re: Accounts opened with old ARC |
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| climber159 wrote: |
Just wondering if anyone has any insight into this possible problem.
I finished my contract and left the country for a vacation and to obtain my new visa. Airport immigration made me surrender my ARC. I still have an active cell phone and bank account that I had opened using that ARC. I'm guessing my new ARC will not have the same registration number.
Has anyone run into this before? Was it a problem? |
ARC number should stay the same assuming you are using the same immigration office. But, there are always exceptions.
The biggest issue from my experience was when I had to get a new passport. The number changed and my bank could no longer send money home to Canada for me. They were completely dumbfounded by the change in number.
I had to close my account right there and then, leave with a bag full of man wons and open an account across the street. |
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