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ellie
Joined: 03 Jul 2005
Location: Melbourne- Australia
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 Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: No ARC- does the visa expire after 3 months |
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im leaving after giving 3 months notice. the boss has refused me a LOR. I heard that if i never went and got my ARC that the visa will expire after 3 months.
So if I choose to I can get another position down the track within the 1st visa 12 month period and I really shouldnt bump into any problems, should I? |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't provide an actual link on this, but I am pretty sure that if you don't get your ARC within 3 months(90 days) like you are supposed to, the E-2 will become null and void. Then, you will have to go through all that crap again of getting a new E-2...transcripts, degree, etc. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| All gone? Is it essentially a Letter of release? A "Get out of jail free" card? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
| I can't provide an actual link on this, but I am pretty sure that if you don't get your ARC within 3 months(90 days) like you are supposed to, the E-2 will become null and void. Then, you will have to go through all that crap again of getting a new E-2...transcripts, degree, etc. |
No ARC for 90 days will result in a fine, not a void visa. Not USING (ie. coming to Korea) within 90 days will void the visa and require re-submitting everything.
(I'm sure the two of us will argue about this until we get confirmation one way or the other  ) |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| princess wrote: |
| I can't provide an actual link on this, but I am pretty sure that if you don't get your ARC within 3 months(90 days) like you are supposed to, the E-2 will become null and void. Then, you will have to go through all that crap again of getting a new E-2...transcripts, degree, etc. |
No ARC for 90 days will result in a fine, not a void visa. Not USING (ie. coming to Korea) within 90 days will void the visa and require re-submitting everything.
(I'm sure the two of us will argue about this until we get confirmation one way or the other ) |
I'm not 100% sure about the ARC thing, but you are right about not USING the visa in 90 days. It will become void.  |
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kat2
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| it becomes void, then when you try to leave, immi will not be pleased to see you have overstayed your visa. Its a steep fine too, maybe 100,000 a day. |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
| I can't provide an actual link on this, but I am pretty sure that if you don't get your ARC within 3 months(90 days) like you are supposed to, the E-2 will become null and void. Then, you will have to go through all that crap again of getting a new E-2...transcripts, degree, etc. |
As with everything in Korea, it all depends on the immigration officer you see that day.
I have a friedn whose school wouldn't go with her to immigration to apply for her ARC card, so she left it and when she did eventually go, after about 5 months I think, she didn't have any problems at all.
It's the luck of the draw as per usual 
ilovebdt |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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If you only have the stamp in your passport, you have 90 days to register with the local immigration office to apply for your ARC, after which it will be deemed null and void.
As someone mentioned above, unfortunately, it totally depends on how the immigration officer feels for that particular day (for lack of standardized immigration procedures Korea seems to have).
Actually, it is that if you had a blue form (before), you couldn't get another job until your blue form expires after its 90-day period. Again, that was before the automated confirmation number system they have now.
I would just wait until the end of the 90-day period and go for another job.. no harm, no foul, right? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| kat2 wrote: |
| overstayed your visa. Its a steep fine too, maybe 100,000 a day. |
Overstaying your visa is NOT W100,000 a day. It hasn't been that way for more than 2 years. It is a flat W100,000 fine for the first 30 days. Once you overstay more than 30 dyas THEN the fine starts to increase exponentially.
I overstayed (through no fault of my own) in June of 2005 by 2 weeks. I paid W100,000 fine and that was it. The new fine system was posted on the wall behind me in the Immigration office. |
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