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Wandering Guitarist
Joined: 26 Oct 2010
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 Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 8:46 am Post subject: Rejected Visa by the Consulate |
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I received my Visa pin number a few weeks ago and then set up a meeting with the consulate. On the health check form (which I submitted to both immigration and the consulate with the same information), I admitted to smoking marijuana in the past. Honesty as the best policy, right?
Immigration didn't have a problem with that. They issued my pin number. The consulate, however, ordered them to reject me. I was supposed to fly out on Monday. This sort of ruins everything, not to mention all the money I've lost in preparing for this big change...
Am I boned? Will I never be allowed to work in Korea? Or is my only hope to do it all again and next time deny having smoked weed? (which I'm sure a large percent of applicants do...) And are they REALLY this uptight about it? I told them 2004 was the last time I had done it.
This is beyond frustrating, and if anyone has any advice or information to share, that would be great. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 8:58 am Post subject: |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:14 am Post subject: Re: Rejected Visa by the Consulate |
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| Wandering Guitarist wrote: |
I received my Visa pin number a few weeks ago and then set up a meeting with the consulate. On the health check form (which I submitted to both immigration and the consulate with the same information), I admitted to smoking marijuana in the past. Honesty as the best policy, right?
Immigration didn't have a problem with that. They issued my pin number. The consulate, however, ordered them to reject me. I was supposed to fly out on Monday. This sort of ruins everything, not to mention all the money I've lost in preparing for this big change...
Am I boned? Will I never be allowed to work in Korea? Or is my only hope to do it all again and next time deny having smoked weed? (which I'm sure a large percent of applicants do...) And are they REALLY this uptight about it? I told them 2004 was the last time I had done it.
This is beyond frustrating, and if anyone has any advice or information to share, that would be great. |
The Consulate did NOT reject you....it was some bonehead goody two shoes who works at the Consulate.
Make a trip if you can to the counsulate and get a meeting with the self rightous person that said no and pled your case with him/her.
Of course though it was YOU who rejected yourself by being honest and open which I think was the right thing to do. You just happen to get denied by some idiot. |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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Honesty as the best policy?
This is Korea. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: Rejected Visa by the Consulate |
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| Wandering Guitarist wrote: |
I received my Visa pin number a few weeks ago and then set up a meeting with the consulate. On the health check form (which I submitted to both immigration and the consulate with the same information), I admitted to smoking marijuana in the past. Honesty as the best policy, right?
Immigration didn't have a problem with that. They issued my pin number. The consulate, however, ordered them to reject me. I was supposed to fly out on Monday. This sort of ruins everything, not to mention all the money I've lost in preparing for this big change...
Am I boned? Will I never be allowed to work in Korea? Or is my only hope to do it all again and next time deny having smoked weed? (which I'm sure a large percent of applicants do...) And are they REALLY this uptight about it? I told them 2004 was the last time I had done it.
This is beyond frustrating, and if anyone has any advice or information to share, that would be great. |
Try China. You have burned your Korean bridge.
Any future application will have the question, "have you ever been denied a visa?"
If you say yes they will ask why and it will be denied.
IF you say no, they have a record in your file, you will be rejected, again, for lying on the visa application.
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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You know enough to find Dave's and post here... you should have known enough to come here beforehand and do some research. It's no big secret that Korea has pretty strict drug laws.
They prosecute Koreans who do it *outside* of Korea, so by admitting your use, you've basically admitted to breaking a Korean federal law. To point, the whole purpose of the consular interview is to weed out people like you (and sex offenders and document forgers).
Fact is, they don't want people who have a casual attitude towards drugs and treat doing it in the past so lightly as to admit to it in a consular interview (and not have enough sense as to lie about it) coming to Korea to work.
As mentioned above, you can try wanderin' over to some other countries in Asia, but you're done in Korea. |
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liveinkorea316
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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That was a very nieve thing to do man. I would not even admit to that back home in the West. Are you crazy? You might be lucky to get a visa now, it is possible but you will be lucky.
Why did you think that question was on the form? |
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bobbybigfoot
Joined: 05 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| liveinkorea316 wrote: |
| That was a very nieve thing to do man. |
+1
except it's spelled "naive" ... |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| They didn't need to know you had smoked marijuana in the past. Some things are best left unsaid. You just shot yourself in the wing by being too honest. Sorry it went that way for you. |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Zackback wrote: |
Honesty as the best policy?
This is Korea. |
I think that no matter what country, given the same info...visa would be denied.
What irks me....alcohol kills more than weed and yet...alcohol is legal! Go figure!
California voters turned down making weed legal recently.....yet again....thousands of alcohol related deaths in the land of fruits and nuts! |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| You could always try again at another consulate/embassy. If you're looking to get a job right away, then consider another country for the time being. |
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