Visa issues

At the beginning of the month, Carla received an sms from the government that her visa would expire at the end of November. There was a lot of confusion about who should renew it, as my work arranged the original visa's and then ECLC (Carla's school) had the visa changed to allow her to work while she was here.

After a week and a bit, nothing had happened about the visa, so Carla started asking what was happening. Eventually we found out that Carla still had a spousal dependant's visa that needed to be renewed by my work, but this had been adjusted to allow her to work.

It then turned out that Carla's work visa expired on the 13th (last Tuesday), so there was a sudden rush to ensure that everything was completed in time. Carla ended up having to go to the immigration office with one of my work colleagues and after this visa was extended, ECLC had to quickly renew the work visa.

Everything was sorted out though.

Maybe to give you some history, when Carla arrived in Seoul, we were not married, so the only way she was allowed to stay in the country was to come here as my "house keeper". We had to have contracts of employment and everything. Once we were married, this was then possible to change to a spousal visa, and then this was adjusted to allow Carla to work.