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fl4mers
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 Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:12 am Post subject: Criminal Background check for dual nationality |
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Heya!
I am just wondering if anybody knows anything about doing criminal background checks when you have dual nationality. I am Austrian/American but due to living in England have been registered on my Austrian passport. In order to get my criminal background check I will need to submit my Austrian passport, but I was thinking this might affect my eligibility for an E-2 visa. I'm not sure whether I could submit my American passport for a criminal background check, seeing as I have never been registered on it in the UK...anyone know anything about this kind of situation? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!  |
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sigmundsmith
Joined: 22 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| I'm British/Australian. My E-2 visa is with my British Passport but my criminal background check came from Australia. No problems there. |
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blonde researcher
Joined: 16 Oct 2006
Location: Globalizing in Korea for the time being
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You can only get a visa to work as a teacher in Korea if you have a passport from one of the 7 qualifying countries (USA, Canada, NZ, Australia, UK, Ireland & South Africa)
You MUST get your police check from the country of the passport you will be using for the visa and of course to travel to Korea.
You cannot do anything on an Austrian passport for Korea and unless you also have a UK passport, you MUST get a police check done in the USA, even if you have not lived there for many years.
You must also get your degree Apostilled from the country it was earned in.
For the British Australian's situation. Both Australian and UK passports qualify for Korea. It is very unsusual you got a police check accepted in immigration from a country other than your passport country you got the main visa on, usually the immigration is firm on this rule, unless you had been living in Australian for many years, perhaps since early childhood, for example) |
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fl4mers
Joined: 26 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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I have never officially lived in America because I was born and raised in Europe, so there is no way I could get a criminal background check done in America. That can't be right, can it?...
Also, surely the background check needs to be done in the country you have been living in and not the country the passport is from, because I don't see how it would help the Korean government for me to have a clean background check in the USA if I hadn't been living there for say...10 years.
Just my thoughts... |
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Oliver
Joined: 19 Apr 2008
Location: Seoul, Korea
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Are you a US Citizen? Do you have a passport and social security number?
While I don't think that there should be any problems getting a US criminal record check if you are a US citizen, I think you are best to contact the US authorities directly for an answer to your question.
My concern is that you may have lost your citizenship having never lived in the states and not being born there. |
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fl4mers
Joined: 26 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a current American passport so I am assuming I still have my American citizenship...and I do travel there quite a lot and haven't had any problems getting in or out of the country. Do you have to have an address there for a criminal records check? I guess I could use one of my relative's addresses if that is necessary... |
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Oliver
Joined: 19 Apr 2008
Location: Seoul, Korea
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nae sure mate. Soz.
Give the FBI or whoever do the US criminal checks a shout.
They'll point you in the right direction. |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:37 pm Post subject: Re: Criminal Background check for dual nationality |
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| fl4mers wrote: |
Heya!
I am just wondering if anybody knows anything about doing criminal background checks when you have dual nationality. I am Austrian/American but due to living in England have been registered on my Austrian passport. In order to get my criminal background check I will need to submit my Austrian passport, but I was thinking this might affect my eligibility for an E-2 visa. I'm not sure whether I could submit my American passport for a criminal background check, seeing as I have never been registered on it in the UK...anyone know anything about this kind of situation? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks! |
It all depends on whichever passport you used to enter into Korea at the airport. If you presented American passport to the immigration at the airport, you'd have to get a CRC from there regardless of where you've been living. |
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Oliver
Joined: 19 Apr 2008
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Criminal Background check for dual nationality |
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| Ramen wrote: |
| fl4mers wrote: |
Heya!
I am just wondering if anybody knows anything about doing criminal background checks when you have dual nationality. I am Austrian/American but due to living in England have been registered on my Austrian passport. In order to get my criminal background check I will need to submit my Austrian passport, but I was thinking this might affect my eligibility for an E-2 visa. I'm not sure whether I could submit my American passport for a criminal background check, seeing as I have never been registered on it in the UK...anyone know anything about this kind of situation? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks! |
It all depends on whichever passport you used to enter into Korea at the airport. If you presented American passport to the immigration at the airport, you'd have to get a CRC from there regardless of where you've been living. |
It might even be the case that the US authorities will want you to get a UK police check, which they will in turn verify. But you really need to contact the US authorities to be clear about what to do. |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Home sweet home
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| I'm British/Australian. My E-2 visa is with my British Passport but my criminal background check came from Australia. No problems there. |
Why did you do that? I mean, wouldn-t it be easier to get the CBC from the same country your passport was issued in?
YOu can-t "lose" your US citizenship simply by not being there. In order to lose it passively, ie, get it taken away, you-d have to do a terrorist act or something like that. In order to lose it actively, ie, you renounce citizenship, then you have to go to the US embassy and sign LOTS and LOTS and lots of papers. By the way, it-s illegal to renounce citizenship just to get out of paying taxes.
Not having lived or being born there doesn't matter as far as US citizenship by blood goes. If his parents fulfilled the requirements to pass on citizenship, then he gets it. http://travel.state.gov/law/info/info_609.html
For my US police check, I didn-t have to send in any evidence that I lived in the US. At the time I got the check, about three months ago, I was living in Peru on a Peruvian passport. the US doesn-t care. They sent the CBC to my mom, no questions asked. Though I guess if push comes to shove, I-ve got my fingerprints on record with the CIA and INTERPOL< so I suppose the State of IL could have pulled that up if needed. |
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