Hi everyone 🙂 I’m slowly preparing to bring my spouse here while I keep working on my visa, and I wanted to share one small thing I didn’t expect: the paperwork budget feels like a little basket that keeps getting heavier. Translations, notarizing, mailing papers, photos, and maybe extra copies… each one is not huge, but together it adds up like coins in a metal bowl clinking louder and louder 😅 I’m not upset, just trying to plan calmly before booking anything, so if you already invited family while working in Korea, how did you organize the costs and documents?

Hi everyone 🙂 I’m slowly preparing to bring my spouse here while I keep working on my visa, and I wanted to share one small thing I didn’t expect: the paperwork budget feels like a little basket that keeps getting heavier. Translations, notarizing, mailing papers, photos, and maybe extra copies… each one is not huge, but together it adds up like coins in a metal bowl clinking louder and louder 😅 I’m not upset, just trying to plan calmly before booking anything, so if you already invited family while working in Korea, how did you organize the costs and documents?

안녕하세요 여러분 🙂 저는 비자를 계속 준비하면서 배우자를 이곳으로 데려올 준비를 천천히 하고 있는데, 미처 예상하지 못했던 작은 한 가지를 나누고 싶었어요. 서류 관련 예산이 점점 무거워지는 작은 바구니처럼 느껴지더라고요. 번역, 공증, 서류 우편 발송, 사진, 어쩌면 추가 사본까지… 하나하나는 아주 큰 비용은 아니지만, 함께 모이면 금속 그릇에 동전이 점점 더 크게 짤랑거리는 것처럼 불어나네요 😅 속상한 건 아니고, 뭔가를 예약하기 전에 차분하게 계획을 세우려는 것뿐이라서요. 그래서 한국에서 일하면서 이미 가족을 초청해 보신 분들이 있다면, 비용과 서류를 어떻게 정리하셨는지 궁금합니다?