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14/06/2019

Job Seeking in Korea D10 visa

As the number of foreigners who'd like to work in Korea increases, the importance of visa has grown as well.

D10 visa is the most common visa for foreigners.

Today Job&Visa like to post about D10 visa-Job Seeking in Korea. This post will be very useful for those people who is looking for a job in Korea.


Since Korean visa for working requires legal employment contraction, other type of visa is necessary for foreign people who need some time for searching right occupation and preparing requirements of Korean companies. So here is D10 visa which is given for foreign people who want to seek for a job and need little bit of time to be ready to work.

D10 visa can be issued in three cases.

First, this visa can be issued for foreign people who is seeking for a job in Korean company and organization.

Or it can be for foreigners who are in paid short term internship program before full time employment contract has made. The last, D10 visa can be issued for foreigners who have a plan to apply patent for own intellectual property,

to establish own corporation or to visit Korea in order to prepare for a business start up.



-You want to engage in researching and job seeking activities in a relevant field such as E-1 Professorship, E-2 Foreign Language Instructor, E-3 Research, E-4 Technology Transfer, E-5 Professional Employment, E-6 Arts & Performances, and E-7 Special Occupation.

*The Artist/Athlete(E-6) field only includes pure arts or sports, and excludes adult entertainment businesses (E-6-2).

-You are founders of a corporation regarding technology and business, who are recommended by the Minister of Justice and have bachelor’s degree or intellectual property rights or equivalent skills.

Special eligibility.

1. If you are a person who has at least 1-year experience at one of companies listed on the FORTUNE’s Global 500.

2. If you are a graduate of a university listed on the Top 200 World University Rankings.

3. If you completed a research program at a Korean university.

4. If you are recommended by the minister of an official residence.

5. If you are working on business startup preparation activities.

Since you can transfer to any other type of visa, once you obtain D10 visa, many foreigners ask us how to change the type of visa. Let's find how to transfer D2 visa to D10 Visa

※ You are eligible to transfer D-2 visa to D-10 visa if:

1. You are prospective graduate or have been graduated from Korean college.

2. You have or are going to achieve Bachelor's degree or higher or you have completed or are going to finish research program from Scholarship research organization in Korea.

3. You have qualified requirements on E-1 Professorship, E-2 Foreign Language Instructor, E-3 Research, E-4 Technology Transfer, E-5 Professional Employment, E-6 Arts & Performances, E-7 Special Occupation.

4. You need to make an employment contract with employer or head of corporation or organization where you want to engage in.

From all given information above, you can find required documents, procedures may be different in each cases. If you want to change your type of visa, professional experts in this field are highly recommended.

We, Job&Visa, help you to obtain D10 visa and change your current visa to any other types of visa in korea.

12/06/2019

Product planning specialist has obtained E7 visa.

Foreign applicant comes from Japan and has experience on studying in Korean university finished her study with achieving BS degree on Korean language major.

And successfully matched with Korean company.

For foreign applicant with university degree from Korean university, major of degree and occupation for E7 visa, do not have to be related.

E7 visa requires education degree and career experience.

The work experience must be regular full time job and longer than 1 year.

If any foreign people finish their study MS degree or higher, carrier certificates no longer necessary.

Foreign graduates from Korean university are also eligible for E7 visa application without working experience.

E7 visa is also issued for those who have no degree only if you have 5 years of working experience on the same field.

E7 visa is called as designated or special activities.

The Ministry of Justice allows foreigners to get E7 visa only for total 85 types of filed where they can engage in.

Therefore if you'd like to get E7 visa, you need to check yourself for you education level and career status.

Then, you need to also confirm the occupation you are going to get whether it belongs to the E7 visa occupation or not.

The company should provide business registration, labor contract and other additional documents for E7 visa.

Detail requirements and documents may be varies depends on the job title which foreigner is going to get and the business type of the company.

Please send us email or leave message for your concern and questions about Korea visa.

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10/06/2019

Alien registration and card

Identification card is issued for Korean who is more than 17 years old in Korea.

In case of foreign people who are staying in Korea, there is identification card for foreigners too.

This is called as Alien registrations card.

This Alien registrations card is mandatory in order to stay more than 90 days in Korea legally.

Alien Registration.

* Must register within 90 days from the date of your entry.

* in case of foreign people who had an authorization for changing status of stay, it is required to do alien registration on the date when the authorization has been given.

* For Canadian B-2 visa (Tourist/Transit visa) holder who has been stayed 5 month and like to change his/her status of stay, this visa holder must do alien registration when he/she applies for chage status of stay.



Who need to do alien registration?

1. Any foreigners who plan to stay in Korea more than 90 days.

2. Any foreigners who was born in Korea but lost Korean nationality and wish to stay in Korea more than 90 days.

* There are exceptions for alien registration. (Alien registration won't be necessary for foreigners listed below)



※ Exceptions

-Foreigners and their family who currently work for international agreement, diplomacy, and international government affairs.

- Foreign people who currently participate in the field of diplomacy, industry, and national defense and their family.

- Canadian who has D-1, D-6, F-1, F-3, or G-1 and plan to stay in Korea less than 6 month.

- Underage foreigners who is younger than 17 years of age.

With alien registration card, you can have legal right to stay in Korea.

One of my foreign client visited Korea for business purpose and successfully has obtained D8 visa.

The legal period of stay for corporation investment visa (D-8-1) is up to 2 years. But this period might be changed by an amount of investment and purpose of investment or business.

(Generally 1 year of period for legal staying is given)

D8 visa is issued for foreigners who have business or investment related purpose. And extension for D8 visa is highly depended on profit of the business.

If income of the business is low, extension would be rejected.

Job&Visa offers visa issuance service, consultation service for visa and alien registration for foreigners. Job&Visa provides required documents information and paper works.

For your working visa and business visa.
We take care and provide excellence service.

03/06/2019

E7 visa extension

To get hired and work in Korea, working visa is mandatory for foreigners.

Foreigners must obtain E7visa for most of occupation which requires specific skills.

After E7visa is issued many foreign people faces some issues such as extension of visa and change status of stay.

This case is about our client who had visited us to request E7visa extension.

Prior appointment is necessary to apply for visa extension.

We make an appointment and visits immigration office to apply for visa extension

Receipt can prove purpose of visit: E7visa extension

The qualification for the company is also requested by the immigration office.

It is important to check the qualification of the company too.

Generally domestic company should have more than 5 laborers and show clearly the reason of foreign employment.

It is necessary to check the possibility of the company whether foreigner can get hired or not.

One foreign talent can be hired for 5 domestic Korean laborers of the company who have worked at least more than 3 month.

Please contact us for your problem and Korean visa matters
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31/05/2019

Job seeking (D10) or Student (D2) visa and E7 visa

E7 visa is called Special designated activities visa.

And these activities are allowed for foreigners who want to do economical activity. Special designated activities are appointed by Korean government and the activities contain certain types of position or occupation foreigners can engage.

To be hired by Korean industries and companies, foreigners should be qualified enough to obtain E7 visa and have certain education level and 1 year or more work experience on the relevant field.

Many foreigners who are currently staying Korea, obtain E7 visa through changing status of stay. Especially, foreign students with D2 visa or Job seeking visa holders (D10) have a lot of interest on E7 visa. The requirements for changing status of stay to E7 visa are met for these visa holders.

E7 Visa Requirements

① Achieved Korean University Diploma (Bachelor's degree) and work experience is nor required.

② Korean companies hire less than 5 Korean laborers or if the company has hired E7 laborers more then 20% of Korean laborers are not able to hire foreigners.

*With permission or recommendation from relevant official organization it is able to hire not more than 50% of Korean laborers.

③ The monthly or yearly wage for foreign laborers must be no less than 1,500,000 KRW per month or no less then 60% of the average wage of Korean laborers.

Change your status to E1 through E7

① Legal residences with Job seeking (D10) or Student (D2) visa are able to change their status to E-series visa

*Student visa holders (D2) only contains foreign students who are prospective graduates and eligible for Job seeking visa (D10). (only if the university diploma is achieved and necessary work experience is compromised, this candidate is able to apply for changing status to E7 visa)

② The field of occupation must be Professor (E1), Language instructor (E2), Research (E3), Technical instructor (E4), Professional positions (E5), Other special activities (E7).

* Adult entertainment and enterprise activities are excluded.

Pure arts and sports are allowed.

③ The employment contract must be made with CEO or head of organization or company.

30/05/2019

Foreign Talent Visa E6 visa

It is very easy to find foreign talent or singer or member of artist band from Korean TV program and entertainment company.

Now a lot of foreign talents are currently appearing on internet shows and Korean TV shows.

Let's find out more about E6 (Entertainment/Talent visa)



In order to be a singer, actor, MC or other kinds of job related with entertainment and TV media, it is highly complicated to search for required documents and meet qualification for applying.



※ Profitable entertainment, concert, acting, sports, advertisement, and fashion related activities

- Anyone who engages into entertainment, concert, acting, sports, advertisement, and fashion related field

- Any individual who plans to show up on entertainment or concert and makeup artists or managers for the cast are also eligible





- Any one who is engaging into profitable music, art, literature

and any job related with professional media .

- Any one who is engaging into professional entertainment.

For individual who wants to be appeared on Korean media program, E6 visa must be issued first.

In order to obtain E6 visa, recommendation letter is necessary to prove the necessity of employment.

The recommendation letter for recruitment is required to obtain E6 visa.

The relevant official organization must be searched

carefully to get recommendation letter.

Other additional documents may be required during the process.

Job&Visa have been experienced a lot of request

from foreign clients for Korean visa issuance.

For your first step, Job&Visa will help you.

29/05/2019

Foreign working visa

E7 visa professional consultant
CEO Namyoon Kim.

Highly skilled foreign experts who'd like to work at Korean can apply this visa only if the occupation is listed on total 283 positions of 85 job categories.

E7 visa requirements
Bachelor's degree and one year of career
Master degree or higher
More than 5 years of career

First of all, alien registration cards for foreign people
who has changed their type of visa to E7 visa.
Back side of alien registration card contains information of duration of stay.
Before the expiration date, it is possible to apply for extension.
Generally duration of stay is given for one year.

They were all working as an intern with D10 visa
and successfully transferred to E7 visa form D10 visa
after the period of internship.

Alien Registration Card has been reissued since the type of visa has changed.

For inviting foreign people from foerign country to Korea,
Application for confirmation of visa issuance allows foreign people to enter Korea.

For inviting foreign people from foerign country to Korea,
Application for confirmation of visa issuance allows foreign people to enter Korea.

Please contact us through [email protected] or facebook messages.

28/05/2019

E-7 Visa in Korea
Working visa in Korea

There are 85 types of occupation for E7 visa.
The Ministry of Justice has appointed these 85 job categories.
Only foreign people who'd like to engage in 85 job categories in Korea can apply for E7 visa.

Eligibility
Eligible Applicant: Foreigner who want to engage in occupations which are appointed or designated by the Ministry of Justice can apply for the E7 visa, only if the foreigner already got hired and signed official employment contract.

General Requirements
You need to satisfy any one of the following
– Achieved master degree or higher education degree with the relevant major with the occupation
– Achieved bachelor degree and 1 year of career experience with the relevant major and field with the occupation
– At least 5 years of work experience in the relevant filed

What you need to prepare
– Labor/employment contract
– Business registration of the company
– Degree certificate (BS or MS or PhD)
– Career certificate = working experience certificate
– Any type of certificate or license to prove your special skills and acknowledgement .
– Documents regarding establishment of company (employer)
– Housing contract.

There are more additional documents to prepare to prove the necessity and reason of foreign employment.
Also recommendation letter from public organization and from the Ministry may be needed
Each occupation and type of business of the company might require different documents and eligibility for E7 visa.

If you get hired by Korean company and still having an issued for E7 visa issuance just let us know we will provide consultation service for you and your company and find a possibility for E7 visa.

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27/05/2019

E6 visa Letter of employment recommendation

E6 visa is mainly issued for foreign talents who plan to engage in broadcasting activity in Korea. Any foreign talents who wish to entertainment occupation such as profitable arts, music, literature, concert, model, sports, advertisement and TV show are able to apply for E6 visa.

Foreigners who want to be an entertainer or athlete are required to obtain E6 visa. It is the most important to prove reason and necessity of employment.

The benefits and necessity of employment must be clear and resonable in order to receive Letter of employment recommendation from The Minister or head of Korean public department. E6 visa issuance can only go on with Letter of employment recommendation

※Immigration Law
CHAPTER Ⅱ ENTRY AND LANDING OF FOREIGNERS
SECTION 1 Entry of Foreigners Article 7 (Visa Issuance
① A person who intends to obtain a visa under Article 7 of the Act, shall submit ① to the head of Korean diplomatic mission abroad a written application for a visa along with the documents prescribed by the Justice Minister's Order.

② The head of Korean diplomatic mission abroad shall issue a visa to a foreigner who has applied for the visa under paragraph under the conditions as ① prescribed by the Justice Minister's Order. In this case, such visa shall contain an entry of necessary matters such as the status and period of stay, etc. under Article 12.

③ When deemed required for a visa issuance, the Minister of Justice may require the person intending to obtain a visa to furnish a letter of recommendation issued by the head of the related central administrative agency, or ask the head of the related central administrative agency for his opinions thereon.

In case of profitable TV show casting, Korea Communications Commission provide a letter of recommendation after the confirmation process and authorization.

Certificate of casting is a document for proving the fact that a foreign talents will be on the air on broadcasting program.

This document must include name, contact information, address, other profile information, and information of entertainment company (such as profile of CEO, name of company and address of the company).

E-6-2 (Hotel and Adult Entertainment) visa need a letter of recommendation from Korea Media Rating Board.


E-6-2: Hotel and Adult Entertainment; engage in performance or entertainment activities at hotel business facilities and adult entertainment facilities in accordance with Tourism Promotion Acts. (Any form of activities such as music, fine arts, and literature, professional acting, or professional entertainment in accordance with the Public Performance Act are not included.)

The letter of recommendation is required for other than E6 visa

This recommendation is from The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs. E7 visa with health related field requires the letter of recommendation from The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs.

The letter of recommendation for foreign experts or talents requires to prove definite reason of necessity and employment. The skills, experience, and expected benefits from the foreign talents must be clearly mentioned.

Job&Visa provides all services for E6 visa and letter of recommendation.

24/05/2019

Job Seeking in Korea D10 visa

As the number of foreigners who'd like to work in Korea increases, the importance of visa has grown as well.

D10 visa is the most common visa for foreigners.

Today Job&Visa like to post about D10 visa-Job Seeking in Korea. This post will be very useful for those people who is looking for a job in Korea.



Since Korean visa for working requires legal employment contraction, other type of visa is necessary for foreign people who need some time for searching right occupation and preparing requirements of Korean companies. So here is D10 visa which is given for foreign people who want to seek for a job and need little bit of time to be ready to work.

D10 visa can be issued in three cases.

First, this visa can be issued for foreign people who is seeking for a job in Korean company and organization.

Or it can be for foreigners who are in paid short term internship program before full time employment contract has made. The last, D10 visa can be issued for foreigners who have a plan to apply patent for own intellectual property,

to establish own corporation or to visit Korea in order to prepare for a business start up.




-You want to engage in researching and job seeking activities in a relevant field such as E-1 Professorship, E-2 Foreign Language Instructor, E-3 Research, E-4 Technology Transfer, E-5 Professional Employment, E-6 Arts & Performances, and E-7 Special Occupation.

*The Artist/Athlete(E-6) field only includes pure arts or sports, and excludes adult entertainment businesses (E-6-2).

-You are founders of a corporation regarding technology and business, who are recommended by the Minister of Justice and have bachelor’s degree or intellectual property rights or equivalent skills.

Special eligibility.
1. If you are a person who has at least 1-year experience at one of companies listed on the FORTUNE’s Global 500.

2. If you are a graduate of a university listed on the Top 200 World University Rankings.

3. If you completed a research program at a Korean university.

4. If you are recommended by the minister of an official residence.

5. If you are working on business startup preparation activities.

Since you can transfer to any other type of visa, once you obtain D10 visa, many foreigners ask us how to change the type of visa. Let's find how to transfer D2 visa to D10 Visa


※ You are eligible to transfer D-2 visa to D-10 visa if:



1. You are prospective graduate or have been graduated from Korean college.

2. You have or are going to achieve Bachelor's degree or higher or you have completed or are going to finish research program from Scholarship research organization in Korea.

3. You have qualified requirements on E-1 Professorship, E-2 Foreign Language Instructor, E-3 Research, E-4 Technology Transfer, E-5 Professional Employment, E-6 Arts & Performances, E-7 Special Occupation.

4. You need to make an employment contract with employer or head of corporation or organization where you want to engage in.

From all given information above, you can find required documents, procedures may be different in each cases. If you want to change your type of visa, professional experts in this field are highly recommended.

We, Job&Visa, help you to obtain D10 visa and change your current visa to any other types of visa in korea.

23/05/2019

E7 visa is issued and can be given to foreigners who have qualified eligibility and plan to stay in Korea and build their career.

E7 visa called as designated activities or special activities

because this Korean working visa is issued only for certain categories of occupation.

There are total 85 of types of positions available.

Many Korean industries and companies have been working to find suitable and skilled foreign laborers
in order to build their strength for global market.


-BS degree and 1 year of career experience.
-MS degree or higher
-5 years or more working experience.

Major for degree must be match with the occupation and field where the foreigner like to engage in.

Working experience also must be relevant too.

Degree and working experience are required to prove by certificate.

In order to hire foreign laborer, the company must have more than 5 Korean laborers.

The representative of the company need to prepare business registration document and standard labor contract form (official signed).

Once all the documents are well prepared, then appointment for visit to immigration office should be made in advance.

After application and submitting all documents, there will be about 2 weeks period of examination and confirmation process.

Lastly, alien registration card with new visa type (E7 visa) will be issued once the application got permitted.

IF the application gets REJECTED, re-application turns out to be extremely difficult.

Please contact us of you have a place to work at

We will check the business and your status then we will measure the possibilities for E7 visa.

22/05/2019

C4 visa is short term working visa which allows foreigners to enter Korea for entertainment and concert activities. E6visa (E-6-1) and C4 visa are very similar.

In order to stay in Korea within 90 days for profitable entertainment activity, C4 visa is required. In case of staying in Korea more than 90 days, E6 visa is required.

As like E6 visa, recommendation for an employment must be issued first.

The whole progress of consultation for employment and visa issuance procedure is successfully completed.

The relevant organization for the recommendation may differ depends on type of TV type mass communication.

* The recommendation is not necessary for a foreign talent who casts for non-profit broadcasting. (In case of foreign talents comes to the show only one time or irregularly with compensation fee)

Rejected case

① If illegal or false employment is detected.

② If applicant engages unacceptable field or activities.

③ If the employment contract includes false, unbalanced, or unfair condition

④ If the foreigner is younger than 13 years old

⑤ If there is a record of recommending foreigner who had employed on the different field other than mentioned on employment contract

⑥ If there is a record of monetary penalty or prison labor by unacceptable activities and overstaying.

⑦ According to the law of immigration, recommendation may be rejected.

There is less than 90 days short term visa and more than 90 days long term visa for entertainment visa.

Overall procedure for visa issuance is similar, however, depends on purpose and type of activities, required documents and detailed procedure can be changed.

21/05/2019

In order to get a job in Korea, foreign student must obtain E7 visa.

There are several type of working visa such as E6 visa for artistic activities, E9 visa for unprofessional field and E7 visa for special designated activities.

Usually foreigners with Bachelor's degree go to E7 visa.

E7 visa is sponsored by the Korean company after the company decide hire foreign candidate and make a labor contract.

But there are some cases called "change status of staying" which is simply change the visa type to E7 visa from D2 (student) or D10 (job-seeking).

Change E7 visa from D2 visa.

① Obtain D2 visa and stay in Korea legally

② The occupation must be listed for E7 visa designated occupation list

and satisfy all requirements and condition.

③ Official signed Labor contract is mandatory.

What documents the company or employer should prepare?

Business registration is required.
The type of business can be found through this document.
The immigration office check whether the company is fraud and false industry or not.

Official signed labor contract must be prepared in advance
Working environment, job title and description and salary must be contained.

E7 visa requirements are quite complicated.
Both of foreign applicant and employer are forced to satisfy each conditions and requirements.
Many foreign students think they are all set once they get hired by company.
But There are additional necessary tasks to complete in order to obtain E7 visa or other type of working visa for working and staying in Korea legally.

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20/05/2019

E-6 visa - Artistic performer

E6 visa allows foreign people to stay and work in Korea.

If you can work at the field of Art, Sports, Stage performance, Acting, Music, and other entertainment and advertising area, E6 visa is something you want to find out more.

Foreign applicant for this visa must have exclusive contracted agency or management where foreigner can get support for the activities such as advertisement, stage performance, TV or movie casting.

Eligible Applicants - People who plan to work in the following areas for the purpose of making profit: music, art, literature, sports, entertainment (e.g. acting, musical performances), advertisements, fashion modelling.

To get E6 visa, the number one priority is Finding a job, and get exclusive official signed contract.

The contract must contain what activity foreigner will do, information of agency or management company.

Also, your qualification must be match with the area you'd like to engage in.

The qualification must be proved as document format.

If applicant has degree certificate or career certificate,

they will help to increase the possibilities for visa achievement.

Degree certificate or career certificate must be relevant

to the field and activities they will do under the management or agency company.

E6 visa requires official contract, degree and career certificates and employment letter from Korean organization (such as Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, KOREA COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ,and etc)

Job&visa helps foreign people or Korean agency to get E6 visa properly and also provides consultation for each independent case and individual situation.

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17/05/2019

Get your E7 visa from D10 visa

D10 visa is for foreign people who'd like to have some time (about 6 month) to find a job in Korea. D10 visa also allows to get internship at Korean company.

A lot of foreign people start their visa with study visa (D2 visa) or D10 visa.

Once you get D10 visa you have 6 month to set up the plan and find a job.

We give advise or guide for our foreign client to get D10 visa first.

So our client get a chance to have an internship in Korea, then if their performance is good, the company will provide a chance to get hired as regular worker which means E7 visa can be issued for them.

To prepare E7 visa issuance from D10 visa, the company must prepare several documents. The most important documents are Labor contract and Reason of foreign employment.

Labor contract must follow Korean labor law and contain the information of employer, worker, and working environment details.

Reason of foreign employment is to prove the necessity of foreign employment.

The company is required to clarify the reason of why this foreign worker is needed.

Once the major documents are ready, then it is time to apply for E7 visa.

With an application form, foreign client can apply for E7 visa at district immigration office.

After the confirmation time with no errors on required documents, immigration office notify us for visa issuance. Since visa type has been changed new alien registration card will be issued too.

The duration of stay will be estimated as long as the labor contract period.

Additionally E7 visa requires foreign applicant's certificates related to working experience and education degree.

D10 visa has a point system.

If your qualification (age,major,degree,experience and etc..) is good enough and gets total points more than 60 you are fine to get D 10 visa.

We provide help you to get D10 visa and E7 visa directly or change your visa type to E7 visa from whatever you have now.

We check and measure the possibilities and qualification you have first, and then move on to next step with your agreement.

please let us know your problem and concerns in detail.

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