We could learn from countries like Korea back in the UK, with it’s attitude and control of immigrants legal or illegal. Sure, they still have illegal’s working over her, but they are a little more clandestine that the equivalent over in UK. Here, you can’t even buy a mobile phone, PAYG or contract without presenting an “alien” card. The same applies to buying the more expensive white goods at the department stores. This card is an id which identifies you as official immigrant status and allowed to be resident in the country. Working visa’s are another story altogether. I used to be anti-id card in the UK, but can see the benefits in mandatory requirement for non-residents.
It takes about 2-3 weeks to arrange an alien card, but when we get ours, then it’s off down to the local subway to buy a PAYG for Sue – communication is pretty difficult right now, as my laptop is blocked to almost the point of not working at all. Skype, MSN messenger and all that malarkey is verboten! The only way I can contact her right now is through the hidden chat feature of Facebook. I don’t think the Korean’s have cottoned onto the Western popularity of Facebook yet, so it’s not blocked by my admin yet! There was no point in getting a phone for the apartment, as it is an expensive item to install and to rent monthly.
Top tech items such as iPhone come with some hefty prices to match, so I think it will be a simple flip type camera phone with cheap calls and top-ups monthly.
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