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teachal
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 Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 2:06 am Post subject: Does anyone know how many F2 / F5ers live in Korea? |
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| Just interested to know since I just got my F5. We should form a club! |
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Drew10
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 2:28 am Post subject: Re: Does anyone know how many F2 / F5ers live in Korea? |
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| teachal wrote: |
| Just interested to know since I just got my F5. We should form a club! |
Like AFEK? |
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Michael Langley
Joined: 30 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a member of that one. Don't know how many F people are in Korea though. Maybe 10,000 or more counting all the spouses? |
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dongjak
Joined: 30 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| As of June 2008: 118,421 immigrants were living in Korea through marriage to a Korean national. An additional 17,809 people are considered legal permanent residents. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Does anyone know how many F2 / F5ers live in Korea? |
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| teachal wrote: |
| Just interested to know since I just got my F5. We should form a club! |
As someone already mentioned, there a board for F visa holders:
www.afek.info |
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:22 am Post subject: Re: Does anyone know how many F2 / F5ers live in Korea? |
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| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
| teachal wrote: |
| Just interested to know since I just got my F5. We should form a club! |
As someone already mentioned, there a board for F visa holders:
www.afek.info |
That is a pain in the _____ to join. Sorry but Im not sending that kind of info to people I don't know in an email.
I have an F-5 also. |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: Does anyone know how many F2 / F5ers live in Korea? |
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| BigBuds wrote: |
| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
| teachal wrote: |
| Just interested to know since I just got my F5. We should form a club! |
As someone already mentioned, there a board for F visa holders:
www.afek.info |
That is a pain in the _____ to join. Sorry but Im not sending that kind of info to people I don't know in an email.
I have an F-5 also. |
First initials of your name, birthdate, visa status are all that's needed and your approved within 24 hours.
W##### T##### M##### J# 680709 F-2
Heck, I'll post it on Dave's.
Not a lot of info and it ensures the site is what it is. |
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Drew10
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| My deal with them before is..they want a scan of my info when I couldn't provide one, I couldn't send any old picture of my id in..so I never joined, but now that I have access to a scanner at work, I'm considering it. Just gotta figure out how to scan in 300dpi. |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| dongjak wrote: |
| As of June 2008: 118,421 immigrants were living in Korea through marriage to a Korean national. An additional 17,809 people are considered legal permanent residents. |
F2 is much broader than a spouse visa. F2s are used in many situations included foreign diplomatic/embassy staff, refugees, points visas now, and other things. |
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teachal
Joined: 24 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anybody know what the '-1' stands for in an F2-1 visa? What other kinds of F2s are there? |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| teachal wrote: |
| Does anybody know what the '-1' stands for in an F2-1 visa? What other kinds of F2s are there? |
1 is for marriage
7 is the points
I Don't know what the other ones get. |
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Drew10
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: |
| teachal wrote: |
| Does anybody know what the '-1' stands for in an F2-1 visa? What other kinds of F2s are there? |
1 is for marriage
7 is the points
I Don't know what the other ones get. |
On my ARC it says F-2
On the passport (printed) stamp they gave me for re-entry it says F-2-1
I never thought it was a big deal, but kinda funny. |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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winterwawa
Joined: 06 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: |
| dongjak wrote: |
| As of June 2008: 118,421 immigrants were living in Korea through marriage to a Korean national. An additional 17,809 people are considered legal permanent residents. |
F2 is much broader than a spouse visa. F2s are used in many situations included foreign diplomatic/embassy staff, refugees, points visas now, and other things. |
Where did you get your info? An F2 is a spousal VISA. The -1 means you have permission to work. |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| winterwawa wrote: |
| crossmr wrote: |
| dongjak wrote: |
| As of June 2008: 118,421 immigrants were living in Korea through marriage to a Korean national. An additional 17,809 people are considered legal permanent residents. |
F2 is much broader than a spouse visa. F2s are used in many situations included foreign diplomatic/embassy staff, refugees, points visas now, and other things. |
Where did you get your info? An F2 is a spousal VISA. The -1 means you have permission to work. |
No it is not. It is a residence visa.
The various -# has a meaning as to specifically which kind of residence visa it is. -1 used to mean you had permission to work a long time ago. Since then it's been revamped.
F2s are issued to refugees
foreign government workers now get F2s
Those who make big investments can also get an F2
and of course the points visa that has been discussed of late here is an F2 as well, an F-2-7.
If you look at the spreadsheet given above, you'll actually see all the various F2s that existed in 2008 of various classes, of course it doesn't have the new F-2-7 on it. They are listed as F2 F21 F22 (etc without the -)
Spouse is by far the most common use of the visa, but it is by no means the only use of it. In 2008 about 5% of the F2s issued the visa were not to spouses of Koreans.
The biggest non spousal category was general resident.
These were probably investors and the like. |
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