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Old Apr 1, 2023 | 8:20 pm
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floridastorm
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
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Originally Posted by mikesaidyes
I'm curious what was "so convoluted and frustrating" about Korean immigration? They don't ask for any test and you just literally line up show your passport and done. And they certainly never ask many questions to most people.
Everyone has to apply for a 24 hour visa upon flight arrivival, including Americans, where approval takes anywhere from 1 hour to 72 hours. If you are approved then, in immigration, you get finerprinted, photoed, questioned, and go through customs/security. If you are not approved within a 1 hour time frame you then will not be approved and thus stay the night at the airport in what I call packed homeless shelters. Luckily my wife and I had an Air Canada rep, who was Korean, and had the process down pat. Still he had difficulty with the "covoluted" process and we were both approved with only a minute left on our 1 hour timeframe. I saw mobs of passengers who didn't have a clue and probably spent the night in that airport.
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