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Offline #basedcowboyshirt

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Does immigration take your ARC when you leave the country for the last time?
« on: November 09, 2011, 09:30:51 am »
See topic title.


Further question - how easy is it to get your ARC replaced if you lose it?
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Offline JahRhythm

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Re: Does immigration take your ARC when you leave the country for the last time?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2011, 09:34:57 am »
Yes, they took my ARC at the airport when I left from my first stint here several years ago.
I was disappointed as it would've made a nice keepsake.
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Re: Does immigration take your ARC when you leave the country for the last time?
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2011, 09:50:52 am »
Yes, they take it at the little passport control desks just past the security check..

I've never had to have mine replaced, but I've known someone who has; pretty sure that they got a new one without too much hassle.  None that I remember them complaining about, anyway.  I think there is a fee involved though
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Re: Does immigration take your ARC when you leave the country for the last time?
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2011, 09:57:42 am »
I will have 1 month left on my visa and card when I leave Korea.

I would quite like to keep my ARC as a keep safe too.
I could easily tell them I am coming returning to Korea and be able to keep the card.

Just wondering what consequences if any, would there be if I happen to work in Korea in the future?
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Re: Does immigration take your ARC when you leave the country for the last time?
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2011, 10:05:57 am »
Not if your card is about to expire.  If it is, there will not be much of an excuse.  I will try that idea though.  I leave Dec 1 and my visa expires Dec 31
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Re: Does immigration take your ARC when you leave the country for the last time?
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2011, 10:22:04 am »
What about accidentally losing your ARC card, getting another copy, and then somehow finding the first copy again?

That way you'd have two.  Immigration would take one.

Yeah?
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Re: Does immigration take your ARC when you leave the country for the last time?
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2011, 11:08:37 am »
Quote from: Sprite06 on November 09, 2011, 10:22:04 am
What about accidentally losing your ARC card, getting another copy, and then somehow finding the first copy again?

That way you'd have two.  Immigration would take one.

Yeah?

Yeah.  I currently have 2 - genuinely lost my old one when I dropped my wallet in a taxi.  I got a replacement, and a couple of weeks later got my wallet back in the mail complete with old card.  If and when I leave the country, I plan to keep the old card as a souveneir.
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