Getting an Apostille Seal for South Korea

My experiences with getting an apostille seal for South Korea was a nightmare. First I don't even know what an apostille is nor do I know how to pronounce it. Well after several attempts of getting it notarized and sending to the state office and speaking with people it's pronounced A-pos-steel not apostile or apostille, like steel, like Superman.

Anyway this is what I needed for a visa to teach in South Korea. Since the rules changed, they no longer accepted the real degree or diploma. Sounds fair enough! I wouldn't really want to give it to the South Korean authorities because if I change jobs I would need it back. So what you have to do is get your degree or diploma notarized. How to do it? You have to go to a notary and they will make a copy of it and stamp it. Please pick a wise notary because when I went to the bank, the notary just made a copy of it and stamped it. When I had sent it in, it got rejected. Getting an apostille and meeting deadlines was very frustration. Just to get an apostille for South Korea I probably got a few grey hairs.

Getting an Apostille for South Korea
1. I called my recruiter and asked them how do you do the apostille process for E2. They didn't really know how. I called the apostille office to see if I'm suppose to send my degree there. They said to have it notarized before sending. I went to the bank to have it done. Sent it in and it got rejected. They sent me back my copy of my degree and stating the notary had not done the notary correctly. I was so pissed because I sent it by FedEx and a return shipping by FedEx because I needed the documents in a rush. It was rather costly. At this point in time, I just didn't have anymore time to mess up.

2. At the time, I just had gotten back my FBI check. That thing took 6 weeks to get. The entire apostille deal was rather frustrating. Anyway, I had my rejected notarized degree and FBI check in hand. I was looking online and found a site, http://www.apostillepros.com/
Basically, all I had to do was to send in my FBI check and original degree and they will have the FBI check apostille and do the proper notarization of the degree to get apostille. Fab! I couldn't risk it get rejected anymore. So I sent it to them. They processed it and got them back to me ASAP! Fabu--lous :)! I submitted everything and everything  was accepted! The hard part is over. I was so happy.

Anyway, my suggestion with the entire apostille thing is send it to an agency like Apostille Pros, they will get every done correctly. Also start on your FBI application fast! That's the longest process, to get the FBI check.