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[Aussiekimchi]

I was at Immigration yesterday. Took a year off my life.

Step #1 Call Immigration and ask for a list of all necessary docs needed for "x" type visa. So many docs needed I would need a team of Egyptians to carry them.

Step #2 Log on to Dave's forum and check out what docs I REALLY need.
Realise that Immi was in fact talking out of their Rse.

Step #3 Call Immi again and confirm docs list....also that every foreigner that has applied and successfully obtained the same visa is a "liar liar pants on fire" and "yes you are right" and "yes, yes aren't those foreigners strange people!"

Step #4 Spend a week collecting all necessary docs.

Step #5 Rush over to (what seemed like an Eastern suburb of China it was that far away) Mokdong Immi.

Step #6 Wittle away the hours waiting for your number to come up by thinking "look at all these foreigners from all over the world....wouldn't it be a good idea if some of the instructions on the walls were not written in Korean!"

Step #7 Make your way to the counter after the 90 mins wait to find out that your visa requires a form to be filled out and a fiscal transaction.
"You must buy some stamps and fill out this form."
"You know, if you wrote these things in English on ..say ..a wall..we might have them prepared whilst we wait."

Step # 8 Take a new number from the machine and make your way downstairs to the money stamp woman. Lots of job satisfactiion in those eyes!

Step #9 Call your boss while you wait and tell him that you will not be making it back into the office today as you are still at immi.

Step #10 Snarl at the same officer when he greets you with a smiling "yes, can I help you?"

Step #11 Offer all docs from the long list you have been given only to have the officer select one and process your visa.

Step #12 Thank him and go on your way.

In Korea's defence however, it did take me 3 hours to get a signature done at the Australian consulate.
Those dedicated workaholics over at the Australian Embassy (visa section) work horrible hours. 8.45am -12pm
Outright slavery that is.

[spliff]

I like iMMY...always chat up the Russian babes...

[laogaiguk]

Rule #1 at immigration, make sure you get a woman, and not a guy. The guys that work there are assholes.

[rothkowitz]

What Immi-related stuff can one get done at Seongnam City Hall,rather than making the interminable trek to Mokdong?

Seoul Immi send some people there every second Thursday.

Ah,the stamp chick.What irreversible faux-pas did she commit to end up down there in the basement, barricaded inside her little kiosk...

[Ya-ta Boy]

B**** and moan, b**** and moan. I remember when not a single person at Immi spoke even a shred of English. Even better possibly, I remember being offered a very sweet deal for a noon-time class, getting all the documents from the prospective employer and my main employer and going to Immi with a friend. Escorted upstairs to the office of the 'president' who completely ignored me for 45 minutes while he rattled on and then rejected my legal application. Why? From what little he actually said to my friend, "If you want to work more hours, ask your regular employer to give you more work to do." (My friend's interpretation: The new boss didn't bribe the 'prez'.