Documents for permanent F2–7 (point-based) visa acquisition or extension in Korea

Seoul Immigration Office and its branches.

In South Korea, you can apply for F2–7 visa only if you meet the minimum required 80 points (out of possible 130).

You can earn points based on several categories such as age, yearly income, education, etc.

The following is a list of documents for applying for an F2–7 visa.

1. Application form (통합신청서):
   - complete in advance
   - have a couple of 3.5x4.5 photos (You may actually just color-print and stick the photo onto the application form if and only if you are there for extension, not acquisition)

2. Foreign passport:
- original + one copy

3. Foreign ID card:
- original + one copy

4. Points document (점수표):
- 8th page of this doc

5. Employment contract (계약서) from your current office:
- submit a copy, show the original if asked

6. Employment certificate from your current office (재직 증명서):
- submit with a recent date

7. Latest higher degree certificate (학위증명서):
- if acquired abroad, a notarized apostille should be provided
- if acquired in Korea, just a degree certificate (학위증명서) will suffice.
- if the graduated university is in TOP 500 (in QS or THE rankings), bring a printout of that for additional points

8. TOPIK or KIIP completion certificate:
- latest KIIP 이수증 from socinet website

9. Earned Income Certificate for previous year (this year is 2024, and May’s come.)— so you need 근로소득증명서 of 2023:
- a local tax office or tax website

10. Housing Contract copy

11. 주민세 letter:
- I didn’t have it, but was given at the counter for completion

12. Foreigner occupation and annual income report form:
- 10th to 12th page of this doc

13. A stamp for visa extension:
- You’d better buy in cash (60,000 won) at the corner in advance OR have some more cash (85k per applicant) if acquiring for the first time

14. Foreign criminal record certificate from your country of residence:
- when left the country (South Korea) for more than 3 months or applying for F-2–7 for the first time (to make sure this won’t be a problem for re-application, make it ready regardless).
- issued not more than 6 months ago from application date.
- should be signed and sealed for apostille
- should be translated and apostilled

15. Volunteer activities in the domestic community:
- if you did volunteer activities, the doc could be acquired through 1365 or vms.or.kr

If you are living with your family members, you will need to extend (or acquire) their ID cards as well.

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Do the following:

Make a reservation for your family members next to your reservation via hikorea website (These days you can only reserve one person per time-slot available, so take your time to reserve subsequent time-slots for each family member).

1. Application form (통합신청서):
   - complete in advance
   - have a couple of 3.5x4.5 photos of each family member

2. Bring their foreign passports and ID cards along with the copies:
- bring one copy of your ID card per family member🤷‍♂️

3. Make a payment of 60,000 won (extension fee) for each family member OR have some more cash (135k per applicant: visa, id card and delivery fees) if acquiring for the first time

4. Bring one more copy of housing contract and

5. Confirmation of Residence/Accommodation

6. Your spouse’s foreign criminal record certificate from your country of residence (refer to 14 above for details)

• 6.1 This is required if your spouse’s ID card is going to be F-2 (from either F-1 or F-3)
• 6.2 Your child’s criminal record certificate isn’t required unless they are over 18.

7. Family relation documents:

case 1 — When you submit for the first time for your spouse and/or you have a baby:

* 7.1. marriage certificate (notarized apostille):
— submit a copy and definitely show original

* 7.2. parent-child relationship certificate:
— acquired from local community center (주민센터) or gov.kr

case 2 — When you are visiting for the second (or more) time:

* 7.1. 외국인등록 사실증명 could be enough for both wife/husband and child(ren).

Personally, the public officer returned my 외국인등록 사실증명 and asked my child’s birth certificate translation. Luckily, I had one on me. It’s just a loose translation on A4 paper, not offically sealed.

NOTE. This post is only intended to be a supplementary material. Even this list may not be enough for some public inspectors😐. Good luck!

In case you want to a rough estimation of your points in advance, please refer to this website for English or the following table in Korean:

Points table.

P.S. Leave your comments if you are required a different document not listed above. I will do my best to keep it up to date. Thanks!