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[TOGirl]

This is a hypothetical question that I was wondering about.

Say you have dual citizenship and two valid passports (Canadian and U.K), and you get an E2 with the Canadian one. You work at a school and hate it and want to quit but then you can't get an LOR to get a new visa.

Can you use the UK passport to get a new E2 instead and forget about the Visa in the Canadian passport, or would Immigration know about the other visa?

Just a question that I was wondering about. Thoughts please??

[shifty]

When you make application at the Korean consulate for the fresh visa, there is a standard covering form that needs to be submitted along with the passport, fee etc..

One of the questions on this form is whether you have ever been to Korea before. Your UK passport naturally won't reflect any previous visit, despite it having been issued previous to your current sojourn.

If they catch you out in a written lie, they might get difficult..

I think, also, you'd better check on Canadian law. It may be illegal to depart from Canada using an alternate passport, if you are in possession of a Canadian one. I think that's designed to stop income tax fraud. I'm assuming that you will return to Canada after quitting your current job.

I'm not to clear on any of this, only my guesswork.

[crazylemongirl]

Also I'm figuring that your name and birthdate are the same so they might catch your file anyway, plus you'll lose your pension payments as a brit!

You can interchange your passport anytime you want, but make sure you leave a country on the same passport you entered on.

[cwaddell]

While we're at it.....I'm in the process of picking a job at te moment and have dual UK/Canadian nationality. Are there any problems that can hypothetically arise from this? I'm from the UK. Cheers!

[bellum99]

Canadians get six months on a tourist visa. Don't know about U.K.

[TOGirl]

[crazylemongirl]

[Wangja]