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Kristinainkorea · Joined: 13 Mar 2009 Location: Korea

Hi, I'm in Yong-in, Suji just south of Seoul and I was wondering if anyone knew where the closest immigration office is or how I can find out? I would like to leave Korea for at least part of my vacation and need to apply for a re-entry permit, but the websites the Consulate in Vancouver gave me don't work. www.g4f.go.kr and www.immigration.go.kr . Also, the Korean immigration website doesn't display the application for re-entry when I click on it.

If anyone can help, that would be great. It's probably a really easy process, but right now I'm stuck on where to apply.

ThingsComeAround · Joined: 07 Nov 2008

You will have to pay 50K Won out of your own pocket.

http://www.immigration.go.kr/HP/IMM80/index.do

you can't apply for the e-application, you should re-fill a form you were given when you first came to Korea. on it, you are given the option of multiple-entry.

In fact, you may even be able to do this just at the airport. Try the immigration office at COEX in Gangnam. Since you are only leaving once, then you don't need to go through the costly process of paying for a visa update.

waynehead · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Location: Jongno

If you're flying out of Incheon, you can definitely do this at the airport. It takes about 10 or 15 minutes.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

A year ago, a single re-entry visa was 30k won, & a multiple re-entry visa was 50k won. The multiple rv is worth buying, if you plan on any overseas trips during vacation time (eg, Japan, China, Thailand, Philippines etc).

cruisemonkey · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject:

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

DavePuff · Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Location: Daegu, South Korea

ajmg8808 · Joined: 15 Jun 2009 Location: Songpa-gu

So, I have an E2 visa and I have already been to Japan and back and to the states and back and didn't have to do anything extra for those trips. If I go on a trip to Malaysia or Australia or China or a lot of places and I come back here do I need to get a different kind of visa too? They never said anything to me for those trips just stamped it and that was all and sent me on my way.

Kristinainkorea · Joined: 13 Mar 2009 Location: Korea

Well, I got my E2 visa in Canada and they told me with a piece of paper that if I want to leave the country I have to get a re entry visa. I've been talking to other teachers from the US and I don't think they need one.

DavePuff · Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Location: Daegu, South Korea

Read what the visa says. If it's multi-entry, it'll say with an expiry date. When in doubt, go to immigration or the check-in counter.

swanny · Joined: 22 Jun 2007

Quick question, on my current E-2 visa i have taken one trip home (australia) using a single re-entry permit i got from the incheon airport immigration desk, i am planning to go on vacation and leave again for a few days only, can i get ANOTHER single re-entry permit from the same place in incheon airport or do i need to get a multiple entry visa as it is the second time i am leaving on the same work visa?

Cheers

DavePuff · Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Location: Daegu, South Korea

Single entry is fine.

Re-entry is only if you want to leave the country several times during the duration of the visa.

tomstar86 · Joined: 09 May 2009 Location: Daegu, South Korea

Same general topic here...

I have an E2 Visa, which has an 'S' stamped in where it says "Entries". Does this mean I'd need to have this changed at immigration if intending to leave the country? As I intend to do a return trip from Daegu to Beijing towards the end of the year to see a friend in China.

farrepatt · Joined: 27 Jan 2008

The S means "Single Entry". You don't get it changed, you actually get a stamp or sticker on another page of your passport from Immigration. For 30,000 won they'll put a sticker in saying you are allowed to re-enter one time and for 50,000 won they put a sticker saying you can enter multiple times.

I believe the multiple only lasts the length of your visa and if you extend your E-2 you'll need another one if you wish to leave and come back again.

You can get the Single Entry permit at Incheon (and probably Busan's airport), but you can only get the multiple entry at your local immigration office.

MattHart09 · Joined: 27 Jan 2009

Sorry to kind of hijack the thread guys but I am in a bit of a pickle. I went to China last week and I only have a single entry Visa. Upon leaving Korea immigration did not even give me the option to pay 30,000 for the single entry permit. The lady took my ARC and said to pay when I came back from China. When I came back from China I told the guy at immigration this and he pretended as if he had never heard of it before. I kept demanding it and eventually he said his English wasen't good enough and gave me a number to call. Needless to say they weren't much help either. Any idea what I could do in my situation? Immigration still has my ARC