Temporary visit(C-3) visa" issuance guide improvement ~ FIRST TIME


Subject	Notice of southeast asia tourists' "Temporary visit(C-3) visa" issuance guide improvement
Name	HiKorea
Email	hikorea@hikorea.go.kr


Notice of southeast asia tourists' "Temporary visit(C-3) visa" issuance guide improvement □ Improvement To simplify necessary documents and procedures of issuing a tourist visa at 11 southeast asia countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, which people are required to obtain a visa to visit Korea, each diplomatic office will accept only one or two different finance proving documents like a certificate of property, and also visas can be issued without personal documents but a guarantee of tourism company to attract the incentive tourism that is a group tour by the company. Since Korean airports like the Incheon international airport are being highlighted, a double visa that can be used twice in 6 months is introduced A multiple entry visa that is valid for 3 years will be issued to a middle·high class people with more than $10,000 of yearly income, pensioners, the professions like a journalist, graduates from Korean universities, parents of marriage migrants and a family group tourists. □ List of countries Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh □ Major contents ○ Single entry visa - Limits a kind of finance proving documents to 1 or 2 kinds - For incentive tourists, a housekeeper of the wealthy class, OECD country visitors, and OECD country visa holders, simplifies visa issuance procedures like omission of finance proving documents ○ Introduction of a double visa (a multiple entry visa that can be used twice) - Issues a double visa to single entry visa holders who want to entry into and departure from Korea twice in 6 months for allowing them to return to their home country through visiting Korea ○ Extension of subjects and validity period of a multiple entry visa - OECD country(except Korea) permanent residency holders, people who have visited OECD countries more than twice for last 4 years, and people who have visited Korea more than 4 times for last 2 years (Group tour guides can be approved, if he has visited Korea more than once for last 2 years) - Representatives of enterprises, government employee, executives and staff members of state enterprises, and executives and staff members airline·shipline in commission to Korea - People whose yearly income is higher than $10,000, and pensioners older than 55 year old - Participants and important people who participate international events·international conferences by invitation of Korean governments or public institutions - Journalists, PDs, editors who have worked at the media for more than a year and the professions like doctors, lawyers, accountants, professors(higher than a full time lecturer including a full time lecturer) - Graduates from Korean college or above - Parents of husbands and wives who are married to Korean citizens - Issues a multiple entry visa with 90 days of sojourn and 3 years of validity period ○ Issuing visas to family group tourists - A multiple entry visa can be issued with only a family relation certificate to partner, minor children, parents, and partner's parents of a multiple entry visa holder whose visa is valid at the application date ○ Date of enforcement : 2011.04.01 ※ For more detailed information, please contact the immigration contact center(Call 1345 without regional code) or diplomatic office websites