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wylies99
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 Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:48 pm Post subject: On-Line Records Checks No Longer Allowed for Teaching Visas |
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From the US Embassy October Newsletter
On-Line Records Checks No Longer Allowed for Teaching Visas
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The government of the Republic of Korea changed its immigration procedures in December 2007 to require that criminal records checks and a health certificate be submitted with E-2 visa applications or extensions. The U.S. Embassy in South Korea does not provide a records check or fingerprinting service, nor can the Embassy authenticate records checks or health certificates. Korean Immigration furthermore informed the Embassy on July 17, 2008, that they will no longer accept criminal records checks provided by an on-line service as some states and private companies are able to do. Korean Immigration will only accept an FBI criminal records check or a local police letter from your city or state of residence.
Procedures for obtaining criminal background checks in the U.S. are explained on our website at http://www.asktheconsul.org/E2ec07.htm. Local police stations in the Republic of Korea are able to take fingerprints that can be sent to the FBI for a background check. U.S. Embassies are prohibited from taking fingerprints for these purposes.
As we receive updated information on the Korean visa requirements, we will post it on our website. The U.S. Embassy website will also continue to be the best source of information about the services that we are able to provide under U.S. law and regulation, but we cannot state with full authority what the Korean regulations are. If you have further questions, we suggest that you contact the office responsible for the new requirements, the Korea Immigration Service, Border Control Division, at 500-9116, 500-9117, or 500-9118, or consult their website at http://seoul.immigration.go.kr/HP/IMM80/index.do or the Ministry of Justice website (in Korean only) at http://moj.korea.kr/moj/jsp/moj1_branch.jsp. |
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logan2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| Wow I was just about to post this. What does local police letter mean...is that the local background check? |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| This is old news. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
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July 17, 2008 is not really old news. Well, maybe for Korea since everything seems to change like the weather in North Texas. I can understand rejecting that, but they are going to make it more difficult for teachers who already live in Korea. They are going to have to rely on teachers who live in North America to want to come. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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ontheway- chill out. 
This was included in the US Embassy's monthly email newsletter that was sent today- October 2. |
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