Immigration Follow Up

It seems there was some confusion (although none here at The Bimbo) as to what the new Immigration Control Act amendment was all about (cf. here - actually the post directly under this one) and it's effect on all foreigners seeking work in The Republic.

Confusion arose however, after a new set of regulations, effective from March, were announced by the Korean Immigration Service concerning, specifically, E2 applicants.

C'mon people, Civics 101 - What's the difference between a bill, a law and a regulation?!

At the time of my previous post I wasn't aware of the new regulations:

The law requires those wishing to obtain the E-2 visa to submit a police certificate of their personal criminal history issued in the country of citizenship or residence and stamped by the Korean embassy. The new version also requires the applicants to hand in a health certificate to show the person has no infectious or sexually transmitted diseases, and a transcript from the last educational institution attended in a sealed envelope.

I believe The Chosun Bimbo Ilbo has incorrectly said law, when it means regulation.

Anyway, taxonomies of government business aside, does this mean, having submitted an Apostilled Criminal Record Check to Immigration in October 2008, I will have to fly home and get another criminal check, get it stamped by a Korean embassy / consulate in my country, and then nring it back to Korea in order to get a new visa?

No one has said otherwise...yet. Would appreciate any insight.

[Update:] Just occured to me, if any lovely Korean would like to marry me, it would solve a lot of problems.

Comments

[Brian]

Well, the problem was both things were announced on subsequent days, hence the confusion.

[Tony Hellmann]

I'm still working on it, FYI. Hope to have an answer by the end of the week.