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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: Medical check up? |
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| I saw something in Korea Herald or something about E2 visa holders needing a medical check up. Anyone know what's the deal? Is that for the health insurance? Or what? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I got a form at the beginning of this year that had something to do with a medical check-up I was supposed to take. As I suspected, nothing came of it. |
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alabamaman
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:37 pm Post subject: In response |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:50 am Post subject: |
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What would be the reasoning behind only doing it for E2's? Are they looking for reasons to kick people out of the country?
I'm just curious... |
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alabamaman
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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soviet_man
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:03 am Post subject: |
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From what I gather, G/EPIK emomployees have always (theoretically) needed a medical check-up/physical and a police clearance (with full finger printing).
Although it has been suggested that in practice - many (most?) provinces aren't currently bothering to enforce this or only enforcing bits and pieces of it.
I would say most of those people would be on E2s and a percentage of them would have (at least) had some *vague* medical testing done.
Immi doesn't seem to specify exactly what *things* have to be medically tested - just get a certificate stating that *something* has been tested. It seems a bit like the whole sealed-transcripts paranoia.
E6 visa status (Arts and Entertainment) have also needed to be medical tested for HIV. But no other visa type has this requirement. Go figure. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| soviet_man wrote: |
E6 visa status (Arts and Entertainment) have also needed to be medical tested for HIV. But no other visa type has this requirement. Go figure. |
China I believes requires an HIV test for a teaching visa. I remember I needed an HIV test for me green card application. That's a little stressful. It's like "okay I'm not an IV drug user and I don't ever remember sticking a man's wibble up my toot toot but you never know!" What if there was a false positive? Oh the stress until a retest. |
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