Police Clearance with Lost Passport (Korea)

[quartercloud 5]

My fiance has just completed an exhaustive search and has concluded that her passport cannot be found. She will need to obtain a new (Philippines) passport. She made several trips to Korea and needs a police clearance certificate for our K-1 process. It is my understanding that she needs to present her passport to the Korean embassy in Manila in order to obtain the police clearance. Further, I believe that the embassy needs her passport with the stamps in it to pursue the certificate for her. Can the clearance still be obtained with only a NEW passport, and without any stamps in it showing the dates in Korea? Has anyone else had a similar experience? What shoud be my next step? And since I have already hounded her to be thorough in her search, I do not need advice to look for it again.

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Will they accept photocopies of the lost passport? And do you have them, including the pages with her working visa from Korea, dates of entry and exit, etc? Or do these copies exist somewhere, for example with her former employer?

That is what we used to get my police clearance from Indonesia. I had lost the old passport too.

[quartercloud 5]

Will they accept photocopies of the lost passport? And do you have them, including the pages with her working visa from Korea, dates of entry and exit, etc? Or do these copies exist somewhere, for example with her former employer?

That is what we used to get my police clearance from Indonesia. I had lost the old passport too.

No, no photocopies.

[Mar_Wil 12]

I would like to know the same information as the OP. My wife worked in South Korea and her old passport with the stamps she used at that time were destroyed in a flood several years ago.

[payxibka 10,048]

Here is what the US Department of State says on the issue:

Police Records

Korean National Police Certificate (Crime-Investigation History Report: Bomjoi-Soosa Kyongreok Johoi Hoiboseo) is available to visa applicants of any nationality who are physically present in South Korea. The new KNPC now includes all serious crimes since 1945, regardless of expungement benefits under Korean law, and misdemeanors for five years, according to the Individual Information Protection Law of March 2003.

Applicants presently in Korea: Foreign nationals, regardless of visa status, and Korean citizens must apply in person at any local police station. The KNP checks non-Koreans according to the requestor's Korean alien registration card or passport. Korean citizens must show a Korean identity card with the Korean citizen's unique, lifetime Korean identification number, which is found on Korean national identity cards and Korean passports adjacent to the applicant's name. KNP processing is no fee and takes less than one hour. The new KNPC bears a red ink half inch square stamp on the bottom containing the Korean characters for National Police. It is issued in Korean only and applicants must attach a complete English translation, certified as true and correct by anyone competent in Korean and English, for the visa interview. A simple computer printout of criminal records is issued with the Korean annotation for information only, has no red ink stamp and is not a KNPC for visa purposes.

Applicants outside of Korea: Unavailable.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_5455.html?cid=9223

Edited May 23, 2011 by payxibka

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Here is what the US Department of State says on the issue:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_5455.html?cid=9223

Why would a "supreme member" provide such useless and unhelpful information. Some of which is incorrect, because it is from a US government site, making statements about another country's procedures. The Korean Embassy in Manila site clearly states that applicants (in Manila) can submit an application through the embassy.

This is a good example of why I dislike FORUMS in general. Too many people with opinions or incorrect information.

[payxibka 10,048]

You seem pretty ignorant!. You still don't understand the inquiry.

Ignorant? Hardly... just someone who didn't run scared of the consulate by jumping through unnecessary hoops. I too had PC issues, and in the end had the consulate agree to comply with the info on the DOS website.

[Krikit 1,166]

Post violating the TOS has been removed, as well as the one quoting it. Acceptable portion has been returned, below. Please be civil. Thank you.

It does not matter what the other governments procedure is, it is all about what the US government understands and expects. This is info is from the Department of State's website which is the governmental department that is in charge of the US Embassy and consulates. I suppose you could share this info with the US Consulate in Manila and inform them that there own department's website says it is not available and see what they say.