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Chalmers
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 Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:20 am Post subject: State Apostille on an FBI CRC? |
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Can anyone clarify if it is still necessary to get the State Department apostille stamp from DC on the FBI CRC, or is Korean immigration now accepting apostilles from secretary of state offices? I'm from VA...
I remember reading a thread about this a year or so ago, but couldn't find it. |
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Necompto
Joined: 21 Mar 2013
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| Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I know it still has to go to DC. I live in Colorado and the Colorado State Department wouldn't apostille my FBI letter. Additionally, the diploma apparently has to be notarized, then apostilled by the individual state, then sent to DC for another apostille. That's what the government representative on the hotline told me.
My information is pretty current. I just sent my documents off to DC last week. |
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Kepler
Joined: 24 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Necompto wrote: |
As far as I know it still has to go to DC. I live in Colorado and the Colorado State Department wouldn't apostille my FBI letter. Additionally, the diploma apparently has to be notarized, then apostilled by the individual state, then sent to DC for another apostille. That's what the government representative on the hotline told me.
My information is pretty current. I just sent my documents off to DC last week. |
Korea is a party to the Hague Convention so it's not necessary to have your documents authenticated at both the state and federal levels. One apostille is enough. States won't apostille the FBI check by itself. However, they (maybe not all) will apostille a notarized affidavit stating that the FBI check is authentic. I wrote the affidavit on the FBI check itself and signed it in front of a notary.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=200961&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 |
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Necompto
Joined: 21 Mar 2013
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| Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| When I got my FBI letter in the mail, it came with a note with a phone number to call for information on how to obtain an apostille. The representative that I spoke to said that an FBI letter could go straight to DC but my diploma had to be notarized, then apostilled by the state, then sent to DC. So maybe that representative was wrong, but I wasn't gonna take chances. The number for the hotline is 800-333-4636. |
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Chalmers
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Kepler wrote: |
| Necompto wrote: |
As far as I know it still has to go to DC. I live in Colorado and the Colorado State Department wouldn't apostille my FBI letter. Additionally, the diploma apparently has to be notarized, then apostilled by the individual state, then sent to DC for another apostille. That's what the government representative on the hotline told me.
My information is pretty current. I just sent my documents off to DC last week. |
Korea is a party to the Hague Convention so it's not necessary to have your documents authenticated at both the state and federal levels. One apostille is enough. States won't apostille the FBI check by itself. However, they (maybe not all) will apostille a notarized affidavit stating that the FBI check is authentic. I wrote the affidavit on the FBI check itself and signed it in front of a notary.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=200961&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 |
Thanks for the link to that thread, that's the one I was looking for. |
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