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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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 Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject: Stupid Immigration |
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The heat is getting to me I think.
I lose my cool so easily when I deal with immigration.
So I have to renew my employment stamp with immigration, and I'm on an F2, and immigration knows it. In fact, believe it or not, it was immigration that collected all my paperwork for the F2, and then gave me a lovely stamp. It goes until 2006 or something.
So I called them today about the papers I need for the new E2 permission. You'd think I wouldn't need any sort of F2 paperwork in order to renew an E2 permission wouldn't you? Yeah right.
I'll call them on Monday and get a different answer. I don't like their Friday answer. Roll the dice, it's another dumb bunny immigration extravaganza. |
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lepid gecko
Joined: 28 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| immigration: probably the only place in the world that would lose my passport, and then look behind tables and curtains for it right in front of me. i sympathise. |
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prosodic
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Location: ����
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:17 am Post subject: |
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In defense of Korean immigration, civil service clerks have a reputation for being incompetent all over the world. Obviously not all of them, but enough to create a reputation.
I guess that's not much of a defense of Korean immigration, is it? |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:26 am Post subject: |
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| prosodic wrote: |
In defense of Korean immigration, civil service clerks have a reputation for being incompetent all over the world. Obviously not all of them, but enough to create a reputation.
I guess that's not much of a defense of Korean immigration, is it? |
Don't get me started on the Canada student loan program.  |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:05 am Post subject: Re: Stupid Immigration |
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| phaedrus wrote: |
The heat is getting to me I think.
I lose my cool so easily when I deal with immigration.
So I have to renew my employment stamp with immigration, and I'm on an F2, and immigration knows it. In fact, believe it or not, it was immigration that collected all my paperwork for the F2, and then gave me a lovely stamp. It goes until 2006 or something.
So I called them today about the papers I need for the new E2 permission. You'd think I wouldn't need any sort of F2 paperwork in order to renew an E2 permission wouldn't you? Yeah right.
I'll call them on Monday and get a different answer. I don't like their Friday answer. Roll the dice, it's another dumb bunny immigration extravaganza. |
Immigration is sometimes dumber than a bag of hair. When I was inquiring about the F2 I heard the following gem:
You or your spouse must have at least 30 million won in a Korean bank account (b.s. -- and I wonder why they perpetuated it to so many. Simple ignorance? I doubt it).
Sparkles*_* |
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shortskirt_longjacket
Joined: 06 Jun 2004
Location: fitz and ernie are my raison d'etre
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| phaedrus wrote: |
Don't get me started on the Canada student loan program. |
or the DMV in the states. |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: |
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| lepid gecko wrote: |
| immigration: probably the only place in the world that would lose my passport, and then look behind tables and curtains for it right in front of me. i sympathise. |
That happened to you too?! LOL
I waited about 45 minutes for them to try and track mine down. All the while, buses of police started showing up and soon enough, a foreign workers' demonstration began forming. They found my password just as the loud speakers started. |
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inkoreaforgood
Joined: 15 Dec 2003
Location: Inchon
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| phaedrus wrote: |
Don't get me started on the Canada student loan program. |
Ohhhh, the evilness, the pure dark vileness of them!! Thank the creator that they are behind me now. I paid off the devil and never looked back. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| hyalucent wrote: |
| They found my password just as the loud speakers started. |
I think Raoul Duke can sympathize.
Sparkles*_* |
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Raoul Duke
Joined: 17 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Clever!
You have sharp eyes and a memory like a steel trap (you'll probably need to stock up on WD-40 soon).
Of course Hyalucent meant to say 'passport'. |
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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:20 am Post subject: |
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Oops.  |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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The way to handle those immigration boys is to just cry. I tried it once to get my way and the immigration guy was so horrified ... so I put it on some more, blubbered and asked for some tissues etc... wouldn't relent until he gave me my passport and ARC card  (which I was there to collect but he wouldn't give to me because it was 5 minutes past 12 - WTF is with this whole nationwide shutdown at *lunchtime???*) ... and give it to me indeed he did and I left with a huge smile
ah, the wiley ways of women  |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: |
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I always tease my students who are studying "public administration."
"Oh!! You're the one who will say..."No...one more paper"..."No..you need one more thing." |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Doesn't 'stupid immigration' qualify as an oxymoron? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Doesn't 'stupid immigration' qualify as an oxymoron? |
No. You mean a tautology (unless you think theyre really clever). |
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