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Legal: Legal Aid Center for Families July 8, 2009
Legal Answers: New Canadian Citizenship February 1, 2009
http://www.expat-advisory.com/south-korea/seoul/new-canadian-citizenship-rules.php
Not sure how many Canadians there are here, but it seems the Canadian gov’t has made another bonehead decision. This won’t affect some of your children (if they were born before April 2009 or something), but it will affect future ones. Basically, if your child is born abroad and that child has a child abroad (your grandchild), that child will not be automatically entitled to Canadian citizenship. Pretty dumb, but at least there’s a lot of time left for this rule to be changed.
Hoseheads…
Anonymom
Legal Answer: Declaration of Birth January 13, 2009
I am currently going through the administrative process myself now… and thought I would share the info. In our case, both parents are non Korean.
You have to make the declaration to immigration office within 30 days of the birth. You need to bring a birth certificate (issued by the hospital), your own passport and alien card, with a photocopy of both, one 3″4″ picture of the baby, 50 000won and… the baby passport. Which means obviously that you need to get the passport made beforehand. Baby does not need to make the trip to immigration.
I was told at the French embassy that there is a 200,000 won fine if you don’t get it done on time. The problem is that it usually takes time to get the passport issued (at my embassy, 3-4 weeks). They provide you with some kind of receipt saying the passport is being made. But apparently, Korean immigration sometimes disregards it… and makes you pay the fine anyways… it sounds like it depends on the mood of the employee…
Anyways, you can phone the call service of immigration at 1345; they have service in English.
For passport pics, depending on your country, you might have to deal with strict instructions.
If you are in Itaewon area, I suggest you bring baby to the photo shop close to Gecko’s terrace. They know all the requirements for most countries. Costs us 28,000 won for 4pics Canada standard and 4 France standard.
Legal Answers: Paternity Leave…YES! December 19, 2008
http://english.molab.go.kr/english/Information/qna_view.jsp?page=15&idx=638&searchType=null&searchText=null
Basically, your husband is entitled to three days, but it’s up to your employer whether he’ll be paid or not — he probably won’t be. Still good to know.The employer can be fined up to 5 million won for not granting the leave.
And don’t let them try to tell you that you haven’t been working there long enough. According to this site:
http://www.koreanlaborlaw.com/part-time-childcare-leave-allowed-from-june-22-2008/#more-24
“A worker, to be eligible for childcare leave, should have worked continuously at least one year before the beginning day of the childcare leave. No eligibility requirement exists as to paternity leave, which is three days and basically unpaid unless stated otherwise in rules of employment or collective agreement.”
