A suffering of a D2 Visa PhD research Student and his family by the Immigration Department of Korea
분야: 인권/성평등
청원 기간: 2018-08-17 ~ 2018-09-16

Dear Honorable President of Republic of Korea. I Merlin Jayalal from India Currently doing my PhD in Chosun university, Gwangju, South Korea. I joined as a new PhD student in Chosun university on Sep 2017. My wife is from Vietnam and I have 2 Kids, elder one is 4 years old and younger one is just an Infant. As a multicultural family staying in India before coming to Korea, I dropped my Wife and Kids to Vietnam and I came alone to Korea, considering the weather situation here in Korea because my Second baby is too young to adapt the Korean weather. So once the winter finish, by March 7th I called to immigration helpline 1345, regarding my wife and kids visa to come to Korea and stay with me. As I am aware of the issues of my kids are in Vietnam staying with mother( they are Indian Citizens),So I want to make sure that I apply for the correct visa for my family. The person who spoke around 7min said that you have to apply for visiting visa, and after coming to Korea you need to apply for F3 status. So I followed what they said and my wife and Kids come to Korea with visiting visa. But once I went to Register my family in immigration office, they said that I cannot register my family with that visa, they need to get F3 visa from the home country itself. So I filed a civil Petition to ministry of Justice(petition no 1AA-1806-299907) Regarding this and I Had a meeting with one Chief immigration officer in Gwangju on 5th July. One thing here you all need to understand is this is not my mistake I just followed the instructions of immigration office. Still I took the burden created by them. So once I went to the meeting with Immigration officer in Gwangju, they said that I need to send my Kids Passport to Korean embassy in India and get F3 visa, because they are young Kids and there is no issues in that and my wife need to go to Vietnam to get her F3 visa. Even though its their fault I took that and I started processing according to their instructions. In the mean time because of my wife got sick I got 30days extension for my wife and kids. So I send my Kids Passports and Documents to Korean embassy in India(Chennai) along with the all documents and communication mails. So I got the F3 visa for my Kids. After receiving my Kids Passports with F3 visa, I went to Gwangju immigration office to Register my Kids again. Now again they started to reject that they cannot register Because they are already in Korea in another visa. So again they need to go to India and get another F3 visa. Dear Honorable President, here Do I violate any Korean Law? I just followed what they said, as a Phd Student it gave me lot of troubles and stress for the last 2 months. I suffered a Lot of Financial loss. Each and every thing I need to spend a lot of money. I am not a rich person, my Income is much less than a Korean average salary. I in huge stress also because of this I was not able to concentrate my Work. I still obey and follow the Korean Law. Please take necessary actions regarding my suffering. I think its a human right to stay with wife and Kids and the Korean Law also allows us to Live together. For your Kind attention Here I just followed what they said, but still they are hammering me. Thank you. Yours faithfully, L. P. Merlin Jayalal,Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Chosun University,588 Seosuk-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, 61453, South Korea Mobile- +82 1091338285