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kentucker4
Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia
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 Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 10:24 am Post subject: Getting an alternative visa |
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Ok, as many of you know, i'm legally married to a Korean. I can't get my transcripts from my university because of a hold. So I was thinking I could get a different visa. Well, I called the Korean Consulate in Atlanta, Ga., and was told that to teach English in Korea, I would HAVE to apply for an E2 Visa. I said, wait a minute, I heard that was some kind of F via I could get. She told me to get a F4 visa, I would need to be a gypo. Well, didn't know to ask about F2 at the time, but she swears up and down my only option regardless is an E2 visa. I told her, but I have heard many stories about foreigners on different visas teaching English. Is this lady wrong. I looked at the qualifications of the F2 Visa online and it says must be married to a Korean which I am.
She even told me look at am a person who gives out visas and your only option is an E-2 Visa. I'm starting to believe this lady doesn't know jack s$%t about her job. She's an American by the way. |
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Scouse Mouse
Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Location: Cloud #9
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:12 am Post subject: Re: Getting an alternative visa |
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She probably doesn't deal with many Koreans who want to come back here, least of all with an American spouse in tow. The F-2 is not a teaching visa, so she may not have made the connection. Just call back and say you want to apply for a family visa and it will all be good  |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject: Re: Getting an alternative visa |
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| kentucker4 wrote: |
Ok, as many of you know, i'm legally married to a Korean. I can't get my transcripts from my university because of a hold. So I was thinking I could get a different visa. Well, I called the Korean Consulate in Atlanta, Ga., and was told that to teach English in Korea, I would HAVE to apply for an E2 Visa. I said, wait a minute, I heard that was some kind of F via I could get. She told me to get a F4 visa, I would need to be a gypo. Well, didn't know to ask about F2 at the time, but she swears up and down my only option regardless is an E2 visa. I told her, but I have heard many stories about foreigners on different visas teaching English. Is this lady wrong. I looked at the qualifications of the F2 Visa online and it says must be married to a Korean which I am.
She even told me look at am a person who gives out visas and your only option is an E-2 Visa. I'm starting to believe this lady doesn't know jack s$%t about her job. She's an American by the way. |
You can get an F2 spousal visa and come into the country. If I remember correctly from a conversation with someone in the past in a thread, you will receive an entry visa which would be temporary and then you would need to go to immigration once again when you are in-country to get your regular visa.
While the F2 is a spousal visa it allows you to have employment as an English teacher or any other job you would like to have. It gives those married to Korean much more employment freedom.
Perhaps you would just as soon come into the country on a tourist visa with your wife which would give you 90 days and then apply for your F2 once you arrive. It takes up to 10 days to obtain once you are here, but you (your wife) will have to establish residence and she will have to sign forms indicating that she will be responsible for you as your sponsor. At any rate, the woman you spoke with is misinformed about the visa you can obtain.
Were you trying to get the visa for an English position you found? If so, this is why the woman is thinking you can only get an E2 visa. When I first received my F2 several years ago, my public school was all up in the air thinking I could not work for them because I didn't have the magical E2 visa. All it means is that the E2 was held by the school which for all practical purposes gave them the control over my employment. Your F2 visa places the responsibility on your spouse as your sponsor. However, you can then work any job. Just don't get caught up in the private teaching thing. It is illegal, and regardless of what people get by with or say, if you are ever caught by immigration they can and most likely would take away the F2 visa. I hope this helps. |
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