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Davew125
Joined: 11 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:39 am Post subject: a visa question |
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Hi,
Im arriving in Korea in a week or so to look for work as an English teacher. I dont have a job lined up but many people have told me that looking for jobs when you get there is the best way forward and i have a friend who knows a guy.....  Anyway ive got my uni degree, loads of transcripts and a nice wad of money in my bank. My concern is that when i bought my plane ticket i was short of money so only bought a one way ticket. I know i can enter the country on a tourist visa for 90 days and i was planning to find a job then leave and come back with the correct visa but will this lack of an original exit ticket cause problems at immigration when i arrive? or will the evidence of certificates, bank statements and the like be enough from preventing me being locked an immigration office for my first few days in Korea? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: Re: a visa question |
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| Davew125 wrote: |
Hi,
Im arriving in Korea in a week or so to look for work as an English teacher. I dont have a job lined up but many people have told me that looking for jobs when you get there is the best way forward and i have a friend who knows a guy..... Anyway ive got my uni degree, loads of transcripts and a nice wad of money in my bank. My concern is that when i bought my plane ticket i was short of money so only bought a one way ticket. I know i can enter the country on a tourist visa for 90 days and i was planning to find a job then leave and come back with the correct visa but will this lack of an original exit ticket cause problems at immigration when i arrive? or will the evidence of certificates, bank statements and the like be enough from preventing me being locked an immigration office for my first few days in Korea? |
This gets covered about once a week.
It is NOT immigration in Korean that will give you grief. It is the agent at the airline check-in counter in your home country.
The airline will be the ones to check because if you do NOT meet the requirements for visa waiver entry then it is the AIRLINE who gets fined and bears the cost of your return passage.
Just be prepared to purchase a refundable ticket from Korea to Japan when you get to the airport if necessary. If they ask or make an issue about a departure ticket then buy the ticket. If they don't, then enjoy the flight over.
Sometimes then check - sometimes they don't. |
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Catt
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: The land of OZ
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| Most places if you can prove you have sufficient funds, think is might be about $1500 US available to you, to buy a return ticket then you shouldn't have too much trouble. They will want either a credit card to check or possibly a bank statement might work. Not positive, but fairly sure about this. |
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