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[G_Pee11]

Hello everyone....

I have a question in regards to who qualifies for an F-4 Visa. I have read other posts, but I would still like to get some clarity if I could. I am a Canadian-born Korean, and my father became a Canadian citizen before I was born; however, I don't think my mother was yet at the time.

In any case I was more than certain I qualifed for an F-4 Visa because I read that this visa can be given to those Koreans who were born overseas with another citizenship, so I decided to call the Korean Consulate in Vancouver to see what sort of documents I needed, and either the employees their are completely dumb, or they drastically changed the laws on who in fact can apply for the F-4 Visa recently.

Some chick at the consulate told me that my name, and not my father's or my mother's name, had to be on the "ho juk deung bon". After I explained to her 3 times that I was born in Canada; thus, my name would not be on that list, she went on to tell me that I couldn't apply then. Apparently it's only for those Koreans who were born in Korea, but later gave up their Korean citizenship in order to receive an American or Canadian citizenship.

I'm under the impression that she doesn't know what she's talking about because I don't think regulations would have changed that drastically, especially without there being no mention of it anywhere on the Internet.

Has anyone applied for an F-4 Visa recently? Is it true that Koreans who were born overseas can no longer qualify for an F-4? If not, then who in fact qualifies for it and what documents are needed?

Any help would greatly appreciated.

[iPeed]

From the web site of the Los Angeles Korean Consulate...

[chrisOC2005]

She's right about the first part, wrong about the second part.

I tried to get an F-4 last summer, and I'm only half-Korean. I was told by the Consulate General in Los Angeles himself that what I would have to do is get my family registry, have myself put on it and have my mother officially renounce her Korean citizenship to the Korean government. So there's "proving" that you have parents who were once Korean (I thought my birth certificate and my parents' marrige license would have been enough), and there's following their method.

Chris