Korean Job Discussion Forums

[kiwiduncan]

Now that some of the posters here may have completed a contract started after the new CRC requirements came out, are you discovering that starting a new job/contract in Korea with a new E2 visa still requires you to submit a new CRC all over again?

As you may have seen in my recent posts, I've just discovered that the Korean Immigration Service wants to see CRCs from both NZ and the UK. If I have to go through this process every single time I get a new job in Korea then I wonder if it's all worth it.

(And please, no more of those almost gloating "you should never have mentioned your dual citizenship in the first place!" kind of comments. I switched from coming to Korea on my NZ passport to my UK passport a few years ago for pension refund reasons. This was well before the new CRC requirements came out, so I had little reason to keep my dual citizenship status unstated)

[SSA]

[Beeyee]

[ekul]

Maybe he meant that he changed from his UK passport to his NZ one? I know for a fact that British citizens cannot get a pension refund at this time. There was speculation that we could get credits towards national pension contributions but that is also false. Just check out the Korean pension website for the info.

[T-J]

To the OP's question. The E-2 visa is a one year temporary work visa. It is not intended or set up for people to renew year after year. Korea really doesn't want E-2 visa workers staying here for a prolonged sojourn and will not likely take any steps to make it easier for the minority that choose to renew a temporary work visa over and over again.

This in no way reflects how I think about foreigners that choose to live and work in Korea long term. I am just telling you the reason for the current bureaucracy as I see it.

[Adventurer]

OP, Korea's immigration policies don't seem to be geared as TJ stated to retain teachers who want to stay here for more than one year or at a different school. Immigration doesn't care how things affect foreigners unless they get too many foreigners not coming in or hagwons screaming at them.

If you have a UK passport why don't you go and teach in the EU?
Many of us teachers would consider that if we had a EU passport.
I mean Italy won't take us North Americans. Japan doesn't pay as much, but you will deal with less hassles there.

Otherwise, put up with the normal BS you find in Korea. It's unfortunate that they are so insensitive in immigration to what foreigners have to go through. A major reason why I overstayed was because of how immigration treated my file. I am not bitter. I just don't think they accomodate us foreigners much.

[kiwiduncan]

I've posted the original Korean email comments from Chungmoon's manager here too, so that someone can double-check my translation, but this is what he had to report back from K Immi:

[Rory_Calhoun27]