F-2-7 Korean Visa

Pureum Law Office (PLO) helps foreigners obtain a sub-type of the F-2 Korean visa, the F-2-7, which is also known as the long-term residency points-based visa or simply point-baseds visa. Please note that this is different than the F-2-99 Korean Visa.

Why is the F-2-7 visa so attractive?

First of all, the F-2-7 is a long-term residency visa, which basically makes you a resident of South Korea without depending on a sponsor, employer or spouse, so you can change your workplace freely at any time.

Second of all, it is easier to get than the F-5 visa, while providing about the same amount of freedom. Third of all, you can engage in a wide variety of activities, including establishing your own business without the minimum requirement of how much you are supposed to invest. Lastly (only in case of F-2-7), 3 years later you will be able to apply for permanent residency visa (F-5).

What are the requirements for an F-2-7 visa?

As its name suggests, there is a point system that Immigration officials apply to your application to determine whether you can be granted with this sojourn status or not. Before counting the points, we should first consider two prerequisites for this visa: your current visa type and the period of stay in Korea. Thus, you have to stay for at least 1 year on one of the following visas before applying for F-2-7: E-1~E-7, D-2, D-5~D-10.

How are F-2-7 points calculated?

Points are calculated by an Immigration Officer when you submit your documents. Naturally, you should check the points before you start the preparation process, which is why we translated the latest version of the table used by Korean Immigration.

Age:

Education:

Korean language:

Annual income:

The income level is measured for the previous year, all in KRW (mil. = million). There are also additional points that can be given for completion of the KIIP, volunteering, etc. F-2-7 visa is considered to be one of the harder visas to get, which proves to be very true, as in many cases even a 1-point deficiency can lead to being rejected by an Immigration officer.

Therefore, we often recommend our clients to complete the KIIP program as it is one of the easiest ways to boost your points and chances to get the long-term residency visa (and some others).

If you have additional questions, Contact Us and please see our post on the F-2-99 visa,which has different evaluation criteria.