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[julian_w]

Ah, yeah, gidday.
Story goes like this:

I've got an air ticket one way to Fukoka, and one of them holiday jobs for three weeks near Busan, for which the employers r making me do a visa run for the sake of gaining a C4.

Firstly, isn't a C4 like a supplementary job stamp kindof thing, soas to give permission for work beyond the stated job defined in the E2 visa?

Secondly, if I use that air ticket getting to Fukoka, then take the ferry back, is the Busan immigration going to get their knickers in a twist if I don't then have a ticket out of country?

Help appreciated heaps.

[Grotto]

if you already have an E-2 visa you dont have to do a visa run.

All you need to do is go to the local immigration office and they will sign and stamp it for 30,000won.

[julian_w]

Heh. Wrote that first entry at about 5am after not being able to sleep. Bloody heat-soaking concrete apartment blocks!

Forgot to mention I'm here on a tourist visa at the moment. That's why I was asking that first question too.

But more important is the second question: if I'm here on a tourist visa which then becomes a C4, should I take the ferry both ways and thereby keep the airticket out of the country, or can I save cash short-term and use the ticket to get there and just take the ferry back...? ie. do I need an airticket out of the country on a C4?