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OMGtrev
Joined: 09 Mar 2010
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 Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject: Vis conundrum |
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| So I quit my terrible hagwon job this past November and went home to the US. I've got some job offers back in Korea (hopefully it will be better this time around) but I've still got about 5 months left on my E-2 visa. Should I just go ahead and get a new one and not deal with asking my former employer to transfer it? And is there anything different I have to do to get a new visa? My diploma is a bit of an issue since my school doesn't make official copies or anything that is acceptable, so I had to travel over there with the thing (it's big and made of sheepskin too, so quite a hassle) and didn't get my visa until a month into my teaching gig. Do they need to see my diploma again, or does the fact that I already have a visa suffice? |
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tired of LA
Joined: 06 Nov 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Your visa should have been canceled when you quit. Either by you boss, who should have reported to immigration that you quit, or when you left Korea and handed in your ARC card. You should be able to get a new visa now.
Since you would be applying for a new visa, all the same requirements would apply. CBC, diploma, transcripts etc. As for your diploma, you don't have to send the original. Just get a copy apostilled and send that. |
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OMGtrev
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| tired of LA wrote: |
| Your visa should have been canceled when you quit. Either by you boss, who should have reported to immigration that you quit, or when you left Korea and handed in your ARC card. You should be able to get a new visa now. |
I'm not entirely sure what an ARC card is and I don't recall handing anything in. What if they didn't report that I was quitting?
| tired of LA wrote: |
| Since you would be applying for a new visa, all the same requirements would apply. CBC, diploma, transcripts etc. As for your diploma, you don't have to send the original. Just get a copy apostilled and send that. |
Does it have to be an official copy or will they accept any copy that is apostilled? My school doesn't make any kind of copy. The best they could do last time was a letter of graduation verification, but my transcripts already verify that I graduated, so I don't know what the point of that is. I ended up not using it so I don't know if they'd accept it or not, but I'm thinking no. |
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tired of LA
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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An ARC is an alien resident card. You should have gotten if you worked in Korea. I believe you would have had 90 days to get one after arriving.
If you didn't turn in your ARC and tell immigration that you are not returning, and your boss didn't report to immigration that you quit, I believe you would have to wait until your visa expires before you got another one.
They will accept any copy that is apostilled. You just need to photocopy your diploma, get it notarized and then apostilled. |
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OMGtrev
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| tired of LA wrote: |
| An ARC is an alien resident card. You should have gotten if you worked in Korea. I believe you would have had 90 days to get one after arriving. |
OK, yeah, I have that still. I just never heard that acronym before.
| tired of LA wrote: |
| If you didn't turn in your ARC and tell immigration that you are not returning, and your boss didn't report to immigration that you quit, I believe you would have to wait until your visa expires before you got another one. |
Are you serious?! That's pretty ridiculous. They wouldn't allow me to just get a new one?
| tired of LA wrote: |
| They will accept any copy that is apostilled. You just need to photocopy your diploma, get it notarized and then apostilled. |
Ok, good to know. Thanks. |
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