F-6 Korean Visa

Foreigners with a Korean spouse are eligible for an F-6 Korean visa, which allows them to reside in the country. Pureum Law Office has handled dozens of F-6-1 visa cases for foreign clients.

Some requirements were changed, with the following revisions having gone into effective from January 1, 2024:

• If an invitee’s Korean language proficiency is significantly lacking, a direct assessment by a consul can be conducted, and they can be excluded from the exemption.
  ❍ If the inviter has previously resided for more than one year continuously in a country where the native language of the invitee is an official language.
• However, if the inviter’s proficiency in the invitee’s native language is significantly lacking, a direct assessment by a consul can be conducted, and they can be excluded from the exemption.
  ❍ If the inviter and the invitee have resided for more than 1 year continuously in a third country where a language other than Korean or the invitee’s native language is an official language.
• However, if the proficiency of the inviter or the invitee in the third country’s language is significantly lacking, a direct assessment by a consul can be conducted, and they can be excluded from the exemption.
  ❍ If the language of the inviter’s pre-naturalization nationality is the same as the native language of the invitee.

Many foreign clients mistakenly believe that applying for an F-6 visa is convenient and easily granted.

However, due to the high incidence of fraudulent marriages and invitations, the immigration office undergoes rigorous annual reviews before granting F-6 visas.

Therefore, to increase the chances of obtaining an F-6 visa and to avoid wasting time and money, we recommend hiring an immigration law firm like ours that specializes in immigration law.

If you need our services for an F-6 visa application or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

For more information, please contact the immigration office’s official website.