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karl
Joined: 19 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject: visa run question!! |
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| can someone explain to me what exactly a "visa run" is?is this for people who are working illegally?i mean if they are working illegally,why do they have to leave the country every six months?also,when applying to a school, am i or my school supposed to go to immigration with all my paperwork? i've heard that schools take care of everything! how long does it take for them to process my visa?also,if i come to look for a job in person,do i have to go straight to immigration from the airport or just after i find my job? |
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oneiros
Joined: 19 Aug 2003
Location: Villa Straylight
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: visa run question!! |
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| karl wrote: |
| can someone explain to me what exactly a "visa run" is?is this for people who are working illegally?i mean if they are working illegally,why do they have to leave the country every six months?also,when applying to a school, am i or my school supposed to go to immigration with all my paperwork? i've heard that schools take care of everything! how long does it take for them to process my visa?also,if i come to look for a job in person,do i have to go straight to immigration from the airport or just after i find my job? |
A visa run means that you are leaving the country to change your visa status. You might need to do this if you come to Korea on a tourist visa to find work. After you land a job, you'll need to leave Korea to get an E-2 work visa, because you can't change your visa status while you're inside the country. It can also happen if you've ended employment with one school, and are starting work at a different school.
Usually, your school needs to go to immigration to get your "Visa voucher". This is a blue piece of paper that entitles you to get a work visa. At that point, you need to take that paper to a Korean embassy to get a visa in your passport.
It depends on your immigration office as to how long it takes them to process your "blue paper", but in my experience, it's taken around a week.
Finally, when you arrive in Korea, you will have to go through Customs and Immigration, as you would in any country. If you don't have an e-2, you'll come in on a tourist visa. After you land a job, you'll have to go through the procedure above. (Employer gets you a blue visa voucher, and you leave the country, usually to Japan, to get a visa.)
There's more information on this in the FAQ section. Hope this helps!
Edit: People who work illegally have to leave the country every six months, because they're here on a tourist visa. When their tourist visa expires, they need to leave and re-enter in order to get a new one. Working illegally is not a good idea for a number of reasons. Make sure you have a valid work visa before you start teaching. |
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karl
Joined: 19 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| ahhh!!!i see !!! thanks for the help!!!it means even if i am working legally i still have to leave and come back.do i tell the people at immigration what i'm doing?something sounds strange about this! do i tell them "i'm just popping over to japan on my visa run!"?i thought you wouldn't have to leave the country if immgration gave you a "pass"!!! |
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oneiros
Joined: 19 Aug 2003
Location: Villa Straylight
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| karl wrote: |
| ahhh!!!i see !!! thanks for the help!!!it means even if i am working legally i still have to leave and come back.do i tell the people at immigration what i'm doing?something sounds strange about this! do i tell them "i'm just popping over to japan on my visa run!"?i thought you wouldn't have to leave the country if immgration gave you a "pass"!!! |
If you're leaving the country to get a work visa, its perfectly alright to tell immigration that you're going on a visa run. They see many teachers doing it everyday.
You do, unfortunately, have to leave to change your visa status. There's no way around it that I know of. |
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slap it
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:29 pm Post subject: visa run |
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| it's usually a one day trip to osaka, japan on Asiana Airlines. you leave korea in the morning, get to japan, hand in the paperwork at the korean consulate, pick it up that afternoon at 4 p.m., and then head back to Korea. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| slap it wrote: |
| it's usually a one day trip to osaka, japan on Asiana Airlines. you leave korea in the morning, get to japan, hand in the paperwork at the korean consulate, pick it up that afternoon at 4 p.m., and then head back to Korea. |
If you live in Seoul or Daejeon or surrounds.
In the south it involves a run to Fukuoka. |
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