Question for Asian K-1 petitioners... especially Korean

[aznsamiam 0]

Filling out the G-325A form and the I-129F petition for my fiancee is proving a little bit more difficult than we imagined. The main problem is the fact that all my fiancee's information is in Korean, which requires a proper translation. The question is, how accurate can you get with translation of addresses ?

If you know anything about Korean postal system, there is no "city" or "state" like the US has, but just rather a single line that lists everything from province down to the district within the city. I understand that there is a PROPER romanization to all addresses in Korea (and probably in all countries that don't use roman letters) and was wondering if anyone has any clue where i can find this information. So far, we've just done our best to translate it and are just hoping for the best.

Any opinions or people who have gone through this process before ? i tried emailing the US consulate in Korea for more information, but its not working as well as planned X0

[maya62 7]

Looks like you need Korean fonts to understand, but this might be helpful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language

Other than that, you might try the Korean Embassy here in the US...

Best wishes,

Maya

[lisaf 0]

Filling out the G-325A form and the I-129F petition for my fiancee is proving a little bit more difficult than we imagined. The main problem is the fact that all my fiancee's information is in Korean, which requires a proper translation. The question is, how accurate can you get with translation of addresses ?

If you know anything about Korean postal system, there is no "city" or "state" like the US has, but just rather a single line that lists everything from province down to the district within the city. I understand that there is a PROPER romanization to all addresses in Korea (and probably in all countries that don't use roman letters) and was wondering if anyone has any clue where i can find this information. So far, we've just done our best to translate it and are just hoping for the best.

Any opinions or people who have gone through this process before ? i tried emailing the US consulate in Korea for more information, but its not working as well as planned X0

I lived in Cambodia for a number of years, and it has a similar system with provinces and district... over there all streets have a number, so I wrote the streeet number, an abbreiviation of the district ( as it would be senseless to anyone anyway, and is so long even they abbreviate it) and then wrote the capital and country. No problems.

[payxibka 10,045]

Filling out the G-325A form and the I-129F petition for my fiancee is proving a little bit more difficult than we imagined. The main problem is the fact that all my fiancee's information is in Korean, which requires a proper translation. The question is, how accurate can you get with translation of addresses ?

If you know anything about Korean postal system, there is no "city" or "state" like the US has, but just rather a single line that lists everything from province down to the district within the city. I understand that there is a PROPER romanization to all addresses in Korea (and probably in all countries that don't use roman letters) and was wondering if anyone has any clue where i can find this information. So far, we've just done our best to translate it and are just hoping for the best.

Any opinions or people who have gone through this process before ? i tried emailing the US consulate in Korea for more information, but its not working as well as planned X0

Having all your fiancees information in a foreign language is not limited to just Korea but affects everyone who has documents not in English. Even the alphabet problem is not isolated as all my fiancees documents were in cryllic.

As for the address issue, simply do the best you can. If you want, you can attach a supplemental attachment with the address in proper Korean format. Remember, when it comes time to send anything to your fiancee, it will come from the Korean consulate and they are well aware of how to properly format an address for delivery.

[esojrd 0]

We had exact translations just to be safe.

[Gump456789 0]

Filling out the G-325A form and the I-129F petition for my fiancee is proving a little bit more difficult than we imagined. The main problem is the fact that all my fiancee's information is in Korean, which requires a proper translation. The question is, how accurate can you get with translation of addresses ?

If you know anything about Korean postal system, there is no "city" or "state" like the US has, but just rather a single line that lists everything from province down to the district within the city. I understand that there is a PROPER romanization to all addresses in Korea (and probably in all countries that don't use roman letters) and was wondering if anyone has any clue where i can find this information. So far, we've just done our best to translate it and are just hoping for the best.

Any opinions or people who have gone through this process before ? i tried emailing the US consulate in Korea for more information, but its not working as well as planned X0

Where does your fiance live? Inside of Seoul or outside?

On the Address line just write the english translation of the address. It may be quite long make sure you put in the Dong and the Gu on that line. The "Town or City" should be Seoul and the "State or Country" should be Republic of Korea.

Go to http://www.koreapost.go.kr/servlet/kpp.eng.PostInfoEng to find the english translation for the Dong and the Gu and to find the correct 6 digit post code.

For question 16 where it says "If your finace's native alphabet uses other than Roman letters... " what I did was have my fiance send me the Korean font version of the address through an IM message. I just copied and pasted that into the I-129F form.

Oh.. and to confuse you more, when you write it with the Korean font it is sorted backwards from the English font. Example, With English font you go in the order of:

Building Name and Number, Apt Number, Dong, Gu

Seoul, Post Code

Republic of Korea

When writing it in Korean font you do it in this order:

Si (This is the City example Seoul), Gu, Dong

Building Name

Building Number, Apartment #

Seoul, Post Code

Republic of Korea

If you're still stuck then just PM me with your fiance's address. I'll help you figure out what goes where.

This was also one of my most diffult parts when filling out my I-129F. Hope this helps.