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tanklor1
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:28 pm Post subject: Stay Awesome, Canadian Consulate in Busan! |
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| Why is it that my Australian friends can get a passport nearly overnight and we Canadians have to wait three weeks? Why do I need four references when only two should do? Why does my passport photo NEED a white background? Why the hell did you wait nearly two weeks to tell me that you needed one extra line detailing my exact where-a-bouts between 2006-2007? Why did I have to go in this morning to fill in one damn line? Why the hell do I have to wait another three weeks starting today when I know for a fact that you have called my references last week? What are you going to do? Call them again? F'in Canada. Stay Awesome. Canadian consulate in Busan! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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The good news is that the embassy in Seoul isn't any better.
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| At least you don't pay taxes. It bothered me more in Canada, the bad services, and the taxes! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
| At least you don't pay taxes. It bothered me more in Canada, the bad services, and the taxes! |
Since it is on a cost recovery basis (you pay for the passport AND an additional fee for the consular office to process it; there is a reason it costs you $87 at home and $105 here not including the additional $50 charge for the declaration in lieu of guarantor ($155 instead of $87 in total)) it is NOT paid for through taxes from home, it is a good reason to be ticked off.
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furtakk
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| I think they say three weeks to be safe. I did mine about a month ago and they had it done in a couple of days. They managed to contact both my references quickly though. |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:38 am Post subject: |
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My experiences at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul have been good. You just really need to double check your documents and be prepared when you go there. I was prepared when I went there and had no difficulties.
What I'm waiting for is to see a person post here and say "I had a horrible experience at the embassy and it was all my fault." |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| Stan Rogers wrote: |
My experiences at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul have been good. You just really need to double check your documents and be prepared when you go there. I was prepared when I went there and had no difficulties.
What I'm waiting for is to see a person post here and say "I had a horrible experience at the embassy and it was all my fault." |
I had a great experience.
We applied for my daughter's passport.
Somewhere between the window and the inbox they managed to lose the photos. 3 weeks later we were informed that the photos were "missing". We went and got a new set done, went to the embassy and, "Low and behold" they had found them," but not before we had paid for a 2nd set.
Went to get a TRV for my wife to go to Canada after the birth of our daughter (let grandma and grandpa see her). The embassy staff managed to rip the photo page of her passport when they "checked that the photo was properly affixed" with a box cutter. This required us to get my wife a new passport (ASAP) at a cost of about $100 with nary a "sorry" from the staff in the consular section.
Let's talk about those who have been here for more than 2 years and were told that we were no longer entitled to use the "declaration in lieu of a guarantor" for a passport application even though they did not know anyone who qualified under the guarantor list to ask as one. The consular staff now get to make up the rules as they go? Sorry, you work for the Canadian foreign service (not Korean immigration) and you get to follow the rules, not play it by the seat of your pants and make it up as you go along.
Nope. The staff at the Canadian embassy in Seoul and the consulate in Busan just plain suck.
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big_fella1
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:56 pm Post subject: Re: Stay Awesome, Canadian Consulate in Busan! |
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| tanklor1 wrote: |
| Why is it that my Australian friends can get a passport nearly overnight and we Canadians have to wait three weeks? Why do I need four references when only two should do? Why does my passport photo NEED a white background? Why the hell did you wait nearly two weeks to tell me that you needed one extra line detailing my exact where-a-bouts between 2006-2007? Why did I have to go in this morning to fill in one damn line? Why the hell do I have to wait another three weeks starting today when I know for a fact that you have called my references last week? What are you going to do? Call them again? F'in Canada. Stay Awesome. Canadian consulate in Busan! |
As an Australian I ask:
1) Why can't we go to the Korean Consulate in Busan? We must travel to Seoul for every passport application.
2) Why is an Australian passport w250,000? Admittedly it is a 10 year passport but still it's expensive.
Yes I did get my passport in under a week, but I believe I paid for the privilege. |
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chevro1et
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
Location: Busan, ROK
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I renewed my Canadian passport in Calgary while home last summer, even though it wasn't set to expire until January 2012. Why? Because I got it done in 24 hrs, could take advantage of the streamlined Simplified Renewal process, and didn't want to deal with the crap I hear so many must endure dealing with the Consulates here in Korea. |
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Chet Wautlands
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
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Going home in 2 weeks... my plan is to get all my renewals done in Toronto...
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| Stan Rogers wrote: |
My experiences at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul have been good. You just really need to double check your documents and be prepared when you go there. I was prepared when I went there and had no difficulties.
What I'm waiting for is to see a person post here and say "I had a horrible experience at the embassy and it was all my fault." |
I had a great experience.
We applied for my daughter's passport.
Somewhere between the window and the inbox they managed to lose the photos. 3 weeks later we were informed that the photos were "missing". We went and got a new set done, went to the embassy and, "Low and behold" they had found them," but not before we had paid for a 2nd set.
Went to get a TRV for my wife to go to Canada after the birth of our daughter (let grandma and grandpa see her). The embassy staff managed to rip the photo page of her passport when they "checked that the photo was properly affixed" with a box cutter. This required us to get my wife a new passport (ASAP) at a cost of about $100 with nary a "sorry" from the staff in the consular section.
Let's talk about those who have been here for more than 2 years and were told that we were no longer entitled to use the "declaration in lieu of a guarantor" for a passport application even though they did not know anyone who qualified under the guarantor list to ask as one. The consular staff now get to make up the rules as they go? Sorry, you work for the Canadian foreign service (not Korean immigration) and you get to follow the rules, not play it by the seat of your pants and make it up as you go along.
Nope. The staff at the Canadian embassy in Seoul and the consulate in Busan just plain suck.
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Wow that sounds pretty bad.
I've done passport renewals there before, gotten passports for children and so forth with no difficulty. Maybe I was lucky. |
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pegasus64128
Joined: 20 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| Stan Rogers wrote: |
My experiences at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul have been good. You just really need to double check your documents and be prepared when you go there. I was prepared when I went there and had no difficulties.
What I'm waiting for is to see a person post here and say "I had a horrible experience at the embassy and it was all my fault." |
I had a great experience.
We applied for my daughter's passport.
Somewhere between the window and the inbox they managed to lose the photos. 3 weeks later we were informed that the photos were "missing". We went and got a new set done, went to the embassy and, "Low and behold" they had found them," but not before we had paid for a 2nd set.
Went to get a TRV for my wife to go to Canada after the birth of our daughter (let grandma and grandpa see her). The embassy staff managed to rip the photo page of her passport when they "checked that the photo was properly affixed" with a box cutter. This required us to get my wife a new passport (ASAP) at a cost of about $100 with nary a "sorry" from the staff in the consular section.
Let's talk about those who have been here for more than 2 years and were told that we were no longer entitled to use the "declaration in lieu of a guarantor" for a passport application even though they did not know anyone who qualified under the guarantor list to ask as one. The consular staff now get to make up the rules as they go? Sorry, you work for the Canadian foreign service (not Korean immigration) and you get to follow the rules, not play it by the seat of your pants and make it up as you go along.
Nope. The staff at the Canadian embassy in Seoul and the consulate in Busan just plain suck.
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Governments are generally magnets for the duller elements of society.
To be fair, the Canadian consulates probably get a truck-load of deeply annoying Koreans availing of their services, as well as Koreans that lived in Canada for a few years and are now Canadians, and are now transporting their deeply annoying boyfriends/girlfriends/husbands/wives over. But I don't see what right immigration workers have to get annoyed. They work for the institutions and ultimately support them. |
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GrasshopperKR
Joined: 14 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| If the problem is getting served by Koreans, ask to be served in French. When I was in Taiwan I had to get a passport renewed and some Taiwanese lady tried to help me. I asked to be served in French and some 6' dude come walking out. Took one week to process. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| I have to say, I've had three experiences with the Canadian Embassy in Seoul, and they were all great; not merely good, but great. They were superlatively friendly and efficient processing my marriage documents and passport-related things. |
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