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[Ironic]

Hi

I was originally going to come to Korea on a tourist visa & do a visa run but found out that under the new, since 2007, rules you have to have your first interview in your home country. This changed my mind re. the above, so I'm in the process of going through organising a job from outside Korea. HOWEVER, I am currently reading through the www.efllaw.com website where I have found the following, which happened after 2007:

"... if someone is in Korea, but hasn't ever had an E class visa before, they can have their employer do a credential check that can take from 10-40 days with the Korean Council of Higher Education. Mine cost about 40,000 won for which I had to pay my employer and I had to sign a form allowing them to research my academic file. Once the local immigration office has entered the fact that a successful credential check has been done into the immigration computer system and updates the record, the individual can go to Japan and get the first time E-Class visa without an interview."

Can anybody provide the correct information on this, please? My thinking, although I may be wrong, is that the rules have been changed & tightened, but the reality is that if someone lands their first job while in Korea, this seems a reasonable compromise to sending someone back a long, long way to their home country, on the chance that that person says 'No, thanks', thus leaving a job opportunity open.

Thanks

[ttompatz]

Not an option since last year when the KCUE quit verifying degrees for E2 visas.

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[Bondrock]

To the OP:

Are you trying to be Ironic?