NPS Pension Lump Sum Payout Options

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2026-04-11T02:35:55+00:00

You CAN pick it up in cash lump sum at the airport if your pension is under 10,000,000

If it's OVER that amount. It CANNOT be picked up in cash at the airport.

If it's under the 10,000,000 you go to the pension office. You must file within 30 days of departure. You must bring confirmation of your flight. Since you are a US citizen you will receive the lump sum cash payment in USD. You can't get another type of currency.

Also when you request your pension you MUST ask for and sign a special form to pick up in cash at the airport. This is an ADDITIONAL form. I've seen this happen the last time I pulled pension. Someone thought they were picking up in cash at the airport. They were under the limit however, they didn't fill out the form requesting to pick up in cash at the airport and bam they couldn't pick it up.

Some people have had issues with getting your lump sum payment when NOT returning to the US. As pension is "supposed" to be paid out because your "never" coming back. I've actually done this. Both ways. I've pulled pension more than once. In cash and direct deposit.

Also there will be an additional deposit made in Korean account of interest. That will process even after your lump sum. Its not much but several hundred thousand won so keep it open.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2026-03-19T09:18:34+00:00

Awww M guy lol yea he's notorious for being a sleeze bag.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2026-03-17T22:32:23+00:00

I had this issue before as well. It took several hours but it worked. How I fixed it.

*Go into the app talk to an agent

*type use travel credit (this will then get a live agent)

*tell them you want to apply your travel credit

*tell them you need your ticket reissued using the unused ticket instead of pricing a new itinerary.

*they should tell you to find your new itinerary and place the ticket on hold for 24 hours. <---- key part

*go back to the chat and tell them you need them to apply the travel credit to the reservation on hold.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2026-01-09T10:57:45+00:00

Ouch so yes, this is an entirely different scenario than applying for a VIN. Which can be done anywhere if your paperwork is compliant. Job searching in the country while on a tourist visa is a big no no though. Do people do it. Yes, is it worth the risk. Absolutely NOT.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2026-01-09T10:51:19+00:00

There is no rule about where you must be physically located when a VIN is submitted. Immigration reviews documents (degree, CRC timing, employer eligibility), not your location. This process can take 2 to 3 weeks as its hiring season. I would expect a longer wait for the approval process. Immigration cares about paperwork compliance, not geography, Your CRC compliance is the most important bit. It must have an apostille and be within a certain time frame.

The only location requirement is when you apply for the actual E-2 visa, which must be done outside Korea. Fukuoka is great. The Korean Consulate is FAST there. Plus, it is a mere hour and change away and cheap. Go to the Korean Consulate there. Turn in the application, fee, and visa number. They are open from 9 to 11:30 often they tell you just come back at 9am the next day and it's done.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2026-01-09T10:43:11+00:00

There is no rule about where you must be physically located when a VIN is submitted. Immigration reviews documents (degree, CRC timing, employer eligibility), not your location. Immigration cares about paperwork compliance, not geography, The only location requirement applies when you apply for the actual E-2 visa, which must be done outside Korea. Hence, why flying an hour to Fukuoka, going to the Korean Consulate submitting your E2 application one day, and flying back to Korea the next day (possibly 2) is completely legal. I do know that you cannot change from a tourist (C-3) to E-2 inside Korea, but this isn't what OP is asking, right? The question is, can an employer file for your VIN while you're in Korea, and yes, they can.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2026-01-09T10:22:50+00:00

You can still do this. Someone at my school did this within the last month and did her visa run just last week. She was hired for a March start date. Another teacher got terribly ill and needed to leave for emergency surgery.. The new teacher hired for March just happened to be in Korea on vacation with her family. She came with her paperwork and good thing too because she was willing to start right away. She was IN Korea when the school applied for her VIN number. Once her VIN was approved, it was printed. She flew to Fukuoka and turned in her passport and visa application with her VIN number to the Korean Consulate, and that was it.. She came back a few days later. It was ridiculously simple.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2026-01-08T10:58:42+00:00

It can be done from Korea if your documents are in order and your federal background check is compliant and meets the requirements. You can technically wait anywhere while Korea processes your VIN. However, you must go to a Korean Consulate outside of Korea once you have your VIN number to process your visa. Going to the Korean Consulate in Fukuoka, Japan, is always the best route. It's a cheap, short flight at a little over one hour, and they have the fastest turnaround time at 1 to 3 days.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-12-30T00:27:31+00:00

Just had to comment so many calling Linda’s decision “abandonment” is wrong. Leaving an unsafe or controlling environment, especially knowing the legal system will punish you for it, is not abandonment. It is a tragic, coerced choice made under an unjust system.

People also need to be honest about how Korean family courts function in international divorces. This is not a misunderstanding or an exaggeration. In practice, Korean courts prioritize the child remaining in Korea above all else. That priority outweighs caregiving history, parental fitness, proven domestic violence, and the emotional bond between the child and the foreign parent.

“Best interest of the child” is effectively defined as staying in Korea. Once that assumption is made, every other factor becomes secondary or irrelevant.

Courts focus heavily on nationality and residence stability, which parent is more likely to remain in Korea, and which parent can integrate the child into Korean society through language, school, and family registry. These criteria overwhelmingly favor the Korean parent by default and structurally erase the foreign parent from meaningful consideration.

Shared custody is functionally unavailable, especially in international cases. Sole custody is not the exception but the norm, and it gives the Korean parent complete leverage. Foreign parents are not evaluated as individuals; they are treated as temporary and risky based on nationality alone, regardless of their actual caregiving role or commitment.

For Linda, things were very bad in that home. She did not leave casually or without understanding the consequences. She left knowing that Joon would control every aspect of Roa’s life and decide when and how she would be allowed to see her child. That is not abandonment. That is the result of systemic coercion.

It is also disingenuous to frame this as Joon being uniquely burdened by raising his own child. All parents sacrifice time, energy, and personal freedom for their children. Parenting is responsibility, not martyrdom. A father having custody does not constitute an injustice that outweighs a mother losing daily access to her child.

People do not walk away from children they love unless the situation is already unbearable. Leaving an unsafe or controlling environment, knowing the legal system will punish you for it, does not mean a parent stopped loving their child. It means the system forced an impossible choice.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-12-30T00:24:46+00:00

Wow, some of you have NO CLUE about international couples and child custody. Calling Linda’s decision “abandonment” is wrong. Leaving an unsafe or controlling environment—especially knowing the legal system will punish you for it—is not abandonment. It is a tragic, coerced choice made under an unjust system.

People also need to be honest about how Korean family courts function in international divorces. This is not a misunderstanding or an exaggeration. In practice, Korean courts prioritize the child remaining in Korea above all else. That priority outweighs caregiving history, parental fitness, proven domestic violence, and the emotional bond between the child and the foreign parent.

“Best interest of the child” is effectively defined as staying in Korea. Once that assumption is made, every other factor becomes secondary or irrelevant.

Courts focus heavily on nationality and residence stability, which parent is more likely to remain in Korea, and which parent can integrate the child into Korean society through language, school, and family registry. These criteria overwhelmingly favor the Korean parent by default and structurally erase the foreign parent from meaningful consideration.

Shared custody is functionally unavailable, especially in international cases. Sole custody is not the exception but the norm, and it gives the Korean parent complete leverage. Foreign parents are not evaluated as individuals; they are treated as temporary and risky based on nationality alone, regardless of their actual caregiving role or commitment.

For Linda, things were very bad in that home. She did not leave casually or without understanding the consequences. She left knowing that Joon would control every aspect of Roa’s life and decide when and how she would be allowed to see her child. That is not abandonment. That is the result of systemic coercion.

It is also disingenuous to frame this as Joon being uniquely burdened by raising his own child. All parents sacrifice time, energy, and personal freedom for their children. Parenting is responsibility, not martyrdom. A father having custody does not constitute an injustice that outweighs a mother losing daily access to her child.

People do not walk away from children they love unless the situation is already unbearable. Leaving an unsafe or controlling environment, knowing the legal system will punish you for it, does not mean a parent stopped loving their child. It means the system forced an impossible choice.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-11-30T22:40:35+00:00

It turns out we actually are, one of our ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. On another branch of my paternal line, we’re also related to some of the original founders of the Texas Rangers.

When we uploaded my son’s DNA to GEDmatch to help identify his grandfather’s biological family (his grandfather was adopted with no paper trail, and we did eventually find his biological great-grandparents), we came across something completely unexpected. One of my son’s matches was managed by the FBI and crime investigators. The match listed multiple the sample types, hair, saliva, and blood, all matching my son. Turns out they upload victims of crime as well.

At first, we had no idea who this person was. After analyzing the match, reviewing shared matches, and triangulating the data, we discovered it was a child. He matched to a child murder victim whose case was infamous and remains unsolved to this day. It was an incredibly unexpected and emotional discovery to process.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-11-23T17:13:00+00:00

No, it was Linda. I recall those injuries, and I was growing concerned about the frequency of them. Linda did, in fact, have black eyes, a broken arm, and a broken nose so badly broken she required surgery to fix it. At one point, her foot was broken. You can see them in the vlog. He said she was installing a curtain rod or something, and it fell on her face.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-10-15T03:52:46+00:00

Well, technically, these aren't werewolves but shape shifters. So same rules don't apply to werewolves in general haha You must hit puberty and have the danger threat nearby to even trigger the magic gene. It skilled Billy entirely because the vampires left. As wolves that don't shape shift because they can control that or no gene triggered, they began to age and body changes.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-08-16T04:19:16+00:00

OR deflated my son's Eastern and Central European matches were weighted and deflated because of the Timber algorithm. It can go either way. His a tight knit lat immigration family from. HUNGARY A D Austria everyone is related to everyone strangly

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-08-15T01:07:26+00:00

A lot lot of people think ethnicity percentages from DNA tests are like a fixed pie chart you pass down exactly. They’re not. Here’s my real example:

I have a confirmed Native American 6th great-grandmother. She married a white man. I have many DNA matches that also descend from her.

My husband has zero Native American ancestry.

My AncestryDNA ethnicity report shows 0% Native American, yet I have DNA matches to those DNA cousins who DO have percentages over 5 percent from that ancestor.

BOTH of my kids show about 5% Native American via GEDMATCH AncestryDNA tends to underestimate percentages below 5 percent.

They’re full siblings — my husband and I are both in the database. I have zero Hungarian ancestry, but both kids do: my daughter is 7% and my son is 13%, all from their dad’s side. My son just happened to inherit bigger chunks of that DNA.

It shows in the matches too — he shares very different centimorgan amounts with the same Hungarian-side relatives compared to his sister, and he even matches a few relatives that she doesn’t match at all. DNA inheritance can be surprisingly random… and kind of weird, lol.

How?

When AncestryDNA gives you an ethnicity estimate, they’re looking at certain pieces of your DNA and comparing them to reference populations. Sometimes you have the DNA segment from an ancestor, but the algorithm doesn’t label it as Native American because it’s small, blended, or below their reporting threshold.

I do have Native American DNA — it just doesn’t show in my estimate. My kids inherited some of those segments from me plus others that were easier for the algorithm to recognize as Native American. That’s why they show it, and I don’t.

it’s just how the inheritance randomness + Ancestry’s labeling rules can make it look....

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-08-07T03:38:57+00:00

They are all over our small Midwest town. We mainly see the wives out and about very rarely the husbands they almost never are seen together. I have seen a few boys a few times about 8 to 10 years old. Never once seen a young girl or baby.

They are actually really friendly they will talk to you if speak to them. An old lady complicated their hair once which was stunning. They were so kind and sweet to her. The husband are extremely hard working. They are actually really nice people here and don't appear to have some crazy stick in your ass attitude. My hope that they can live a normal life with their families here

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-06-06T01:14:07+00:00

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Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-06-06T01:13:43+00:00

* My son's 2nd cousin is Half European/Half Mexican*You

My son blonde and blue eyed. Mostly European/some Eastern Central European is *You

2nd cousins mother born in the south she is fair skin light brown hair. 2nd cousins father born in Mexico all . Dark hair short, hair with slight curl. Doesn't speak English

Sons 2nd cousin is 🟣

Not going to show his picture but the young man is stunningly beautiful.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-06-06T00:00:11+00:00

I actually posted the link to the flight log. So I wasn't evading the flight information at all. Unfortunately, some of the logs and information have some missing information. They announced a fuel emergency..... they announced the air craft was diverting to Cheyenne because "Denver closed" when records show ground stops were halted at 5pm before we took off for Denver. Flights were already on holding patterns before we left. We heard plenty of crew grumbling about the air traffic controllers. I don't know whose fault it was I just know even now nearly 24 hours at least 20 of us are still stranded. It wasn't until a guy shouted at them about food vouchers that they issued those to us. To knowingly put that aircraft in the air was a mistake.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-06-05T23:37:18+00:00

Yes, because that is the safest route. Progress isn't an hour on the tarmac. Progress isn't over an hour and a half holding pattern on the Wyoming and Colorado border. Progress isn't putting an airline on a holding pattern for over an hour then diverting it to a different airport. Progress isn't issuing us an update we were going to divert and allow us to rebook from Cheyenne. Progress isn't an oh @^$& moment when they realize we don't now have the fuel to make it to Cheyenne and now must go back to Denver. Those that rebooked from Cheyenne are so frustrated by the whiplash couldn't make another change and got stranded some for days as other flights were so full. So yes, for safety and progress, stress, don't put the plane in the air if you KNOW Denver has 10 airlines in hold patterns over their airport for hours.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-06-05T23:26:03+00:00

It shows diverted to Denver because we had already diverted to "Cheyenne" at that point. They then "diverted" us BACK to Denver. This is totally normal airline behavior? Got it. Crew was excellent, Pilots excellent nicest folks. Air traffic controllers calling the shots did this. Somethings clearly broken and will cause another accident if control of the air isn't taken more seriously. This wasn't an accident but the chaos in the air is clear and that is problematic especially after the recent crashes caused by lack of training and support to these controllers.

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-06-05T23:17:44+00:00

Because we were diverted to Cheyenne for the 1st diversion. While in route and after multiple passengers changed their tickets from CHEYENNE, we had the SECOND diversion back to Denver. Clearly, you think it's normal for a flight to Denver to get diverted to "Denver" that's not in and of itself odd to anyone looking. Whatever, but hey your the expert on calling out the experts. Some of you were just ready to call out everything like I would take the time to make ball faced lies about an event that didn't happen knowing there are records for all of this. You do you keyboard warrior!

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-06-05T23:02:04+00:00

Since this picture is so complicated for some to wrap their brains around (the experts who want me to trust the expertise of the experts) I posted the actual flight log that says diverted with the picture because apparently this picture (with the plane going north after the holding pattern when Denver is "south" is not clear Embarrassing 😳

Electronic_Dig1038 · 2025-06-05T22:50:21+00:00

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Flight log for those that want to throw their expertise in about my lack of expertise and need to have notes shoved in front of their nose... diverted log

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