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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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 Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:16 am Post subject: Can you bring family to stay if you have an F-2? |
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Just wondering if I can bring one of my parents to stay long term. My wife and I are planning to have kids and would love it if the fam could come and stay in Korea for about a year to be part of our kid's life. Of course they might need to work teaching English while here.
I'm on an F-2.
Just wondering what people know about this.
Can it be done?
Do you need to be F-5? |
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anynag
Joined: 01 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Your spouse can sponsor an F-1 (family visitation) visa, but your family member(s) couldn't teach English with it. Otherwise, they would need an E-2 visa to teach legally. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| anynag wrote: |
| Your spouse can sponsor an F-1 (family visitation) visa, but your family member(s) couldn't teach English with it. Otherwise, they would need an E-2 visa to teach legally. |
O-well. Kinda good, kinda bad. Nice that they can come, lame that they can't support themselves while here, as I hope to have them here for a long time. Suppose I will have to look into being able to get them E-2 visas.
Thanks. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Call immigration .....
Only a phone call away |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Juregen wrote: |
Call immigration .....
Only a phone call away |
True, but they never seem to know exactly what is going on. |
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Goon-Yang
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Duh
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| Sure they do. It just changes from day to day. |
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| So, basicly you want free childcare from the Grandparent and you want them to support themselves while here. Damn, that's cheap. :D |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:42 am Post subject: |
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| saw6436 wrote: |
So, basicly you want free childcare from the Grandparent and you want them to support themselves while here. Damn, that's cheap.  |
Either that or both he and his parents would like to be part of their grandchildren's life and they might have the good fortune to arrange a situation where it'd be economically viable. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| saw6436 wrote: |
| So, basicly you want free childcare from the Grandparent and you want them to support themselves while here. Damn, that's cheap. |
I've got to be honest dude...if ya said that to my face I'd probably have hit you. |
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