1 What is the E-7-4 Visa?
The E-7-4 visa is a skilled employment visa that allows certain foreign workers who have previously worked in Korea under low-skilled categories such as E-9 (Non-professional Employment) or H-2 (Working Visit) to change their status to a long-term skilled worker visa based on a point system and job recommendation.
This visa aims to promote long-term stay and the transition to permanent residency (F-2 or F-5) for qualified skilled foreign workers.
2 Basic Eligibility Requirements
| Requirement | Description |
|---|---|
| Current Status | Must hold E-9 or H-2 visa |
| Employment Duration | Must have worked for at least 1 year in the same company |
| K-Point System | Must score at least 52 points or more out of 80 |
| Application Channel | Must apply through one of the following: employer recommendation, government or local authority recommendation, or point-based personal track |
| Clean Record | No history of serious immigration violations or criminal records |
3 Application Tracks (Quota System)
The government sets an annual quota (35,000 in 2024). Applicants must go through one of the following tracks:
| Track | Description |
|---|---|
| Employer Recommendation | Recommended by the company after 1+ years of employment |
| Government Ministry Recommendation | Ministries like Ministry of Employment and Labor, Ministry of Agriculture, etc. recommend workers based on industry needs |
| Local Government Recommendation | Must be employed in a company located in the same province for at least 1 year |
| Personal Point Track | Apply individually without recommendation by earning sufficient points (most competitive) |
| Flexible Quota Track | Allocated dynamically based on future industry demands |
4 K-Point System Overview
You must earn at least 52 out of 80 points in total.
| Category | Maximum Points |
|---|---|
| Length of Employment | 15 pts |
| Korean Language Proficiency (TOPIK, EPS-TOPIK) | 20 pts |
| Technical or Professional Certifications | 20 pts |
| Clean Immigration/Criminal Record | Up to 20 pts (may deduct) |
| Additional Recommendation Points | 10 pts |
Note: Higher scores improve your chances if demand exceeds quota.
5 How to Apply
| Step | Description |
|---|---|
| Period | Year-round online application |
| Platform | HiKorea (official government portal) |
| 5-Day Rotation System | Applications allowed based on the last digit of birth year (Mon-Fri system) |
| Documents | Must be uploaded in PDF/JPG and within size limits |
6 Required Documents
- Application for change of status (์ฒด๋ฅ์๊ฒฉ๋ณ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฒญ์)
- Passport & Alien Registration Card
- Employment Certificate & Contract
- Business registration certificate of employer
- 4 major social insurance certificates
- Proof of Korean language ability (TOPIK or EPS-TOPIK)
- Proof of qualifications/certificates
- Tuberculosis Test (for high-risk countries)
- Recommendation letter (if applicable)
- K-Point evaluation documents
- Statement of clean criminal record (optional but recommended)
7 Special Conditions
- Applicants recommended by local governments must reside in the same region for at least 2 years.
- Special regional policy (non-metropolitan) allows a 3-year mandatory residence.
- Applicants with past immigration violations may be disqualified.
- After obtaining E-7-4, one may apply for F-2 (Resident) or F-5 (Permanent Resident) visa later.
1- E-7-4 ๋น์ ์ ์ฒญ์๊ฒฉ ์์ฝ
1. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ ์ฒญ ์กฐ๊ฑด
| ํญ๋ชฉ | ์๊ฑด |
|---|---|
| ์ฒด๋ฅ์๊ฒฉ | E-9 ๋๋ H-2 ์๊ฒฉ ์์ง์ |
| ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ | ํ์ฌ ๊ณ ์ฉ ์ค์ธ ์ ์ฒด์์ 1๋ ์ด์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด |
| ์ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ๋ฅ ์์ | E-9: ์ต์ด์ ๊ตญ ํ 4๋ ์ด์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ , H-2: ์ฒด๋ฅ ์ค 1๋ ์ด์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์์ ๋ถํฐ |
| ์ ์์ ๊ธฐ์ค | K-Point 52์ ์ด์ ์ทจ๋ ํ์ |
2-์ธ๋ถ ์๊ฑด๋ณ ์ ๋ฆฌ
2. K-Point ์ ์์
- ์ด 80์ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐ์ค
- 52์ ์ด์ ๋์ ํด์ผ ์ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ๋ฅ
- ํญ๋ชฉ๋ณ ์ ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์:
| ํญ๋ชฉ | ๋ฐฐ์ |
|---|---|
| ๊ณ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ (์ต๋ 15์ ) | ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅ๋ ฅ (์ต๋ 20์ ) | TOPIK 1๊ธ ์ด์ ๋๋ EPS-TOPIK |
| ์๊ฒฉ์ฆ (์ต๋ 20์ ) | ํ๊ตญ ๋๋ ๋ชจ๊ตญ์ ์๊ฒฉ์ฆ ์ธ์ |
| ๋ฒ์ฃ/๋ถ๋ฒํ์ (๊ฐ์ 5~20์ ) | ๋ฒ์น๊ธ, ์๋ฐ์ฌํญ ๋ฑ |
| ์ถ์ฒ ๊ฐ์ (์ค์๋ถ์ฒ/์ง์์ฒด/ํ๋ ฅ์ฟผํฐ) | ์ต๋ 10์ ์ถ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅ |
์ธ๋ถ ๋ฐฐ์ ํ๊ฐ ํ์ํ์๋ฉด ์ฒจ๋ถ ๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
3- ์ ์ฒญ ๊ฒฝ๋ก๋ณ ์ ํ
| ์ ํ | ์ค๋ช |
|---|---|
| ๊ธฐ์ ์ถ์ฒ ํธ๋ | ๊ณ ์ฉ ์ค์ธ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ถ์ฒ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ฒญ |
| ์ค์๋ถ์ฒ ์ถ์ฒ | ๊ณ ์ฉ๋ ธ๋๋ถ, ์ฐ์ ๋ถ, ๋๋ฆผ๋ถ ๋ฑ ํด๋น ๋ถ์ฒ์ ์ถ์ฒ ํ์ |
| ์ง์์ฒด ์ถ์ฒ | ํด๋น ์ง์ญ ๊ธฐ์ ์ 1๋ ์ด์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ํ ์ง์์ฒด ์ถ์ฒ ํ์ |
| ๊ฐ์ธํธ๋(์ ์์ ) | ์ถ์ฒ ์์ด ์ ์๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ ์ฒญ (๊ฒฝ์๋ฅ ์ด ๋์) |
| ํ๋ ฅ์ฟผํฐ | ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ณ๋๋ก ํ๋ ฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ํ๋ ์ฟผํฐ (์ฐ์ ์๊ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ ์ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์ ๋จ) |
2024๋ ๊ธฐ์ค: ๊ธฐ์ ์ถ์ฒ ์ฝ 34%, ๊ฐ์ธํธ๋ 32%, ๋๋จธ์ง ์ค์๋ถ์ฒ/์ง์์ฒด ๋ฑ ์ถ์ฒ ์ฟผํฐ๋ก ๋ถ์ฐ
4- ์ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ
- ์ ์ฒญ ์๊ธฐ: ์ฐ์ค ์์ ์ ์
- ์ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ: ํ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฌ์(www.hikorea.go.kr) ์ ์๋ฏผ์ ์์คํ ์ด์ฉ
- 5๋ถ์ ์ ์ฒญ์ ๋ ์ด์: ์ ์ฒญ์ธ์ ์ถ์์ฐ๋ ๋์๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ ์ ์์ผ ์ ํ
5- ์ฃผ์์ฌํญ
- ์ฒด๋ฅ์ง์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง๊ฐ ๋์ผ ์ง์์ฒด์ผ ๊ฒ (์ง์์ฒด ์ถ์ฒ ์ 2๋ ์ด์ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์ ์ง ์๋ฌด)
- ๋น์๋๊ถ ์ง์ญ ํน๋ก์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, 3๋ ์๋ฌด๊ทผ๋ฌด ๋ฐ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ํ์
- ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด๋ฅ ์ด๋ ฅ์ด ์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์ ์ฒญ ์ ํ๋ ์ ์์
- ํ์์๋ฅ ์ ์ถ, ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง ๋ถ์ผ์น ๋ฑ์ ๋น์์ทจ์ ๋ฐ ํด๊ฑฐ์ฌ์
6- ์ ์ถ์๋ฅ ์์
- ์ฒด๋ฅ์๊ฒฉ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ๊ฐ ์ ์ฒญ์
- ์ฌ๊ถ, ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ
- ๊ณ ์ฉ๊ณ์ฝ์ ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ ์๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ
- 4๋ ๋ณดํ ๊ฐ์ ์ฆ๋ช
- ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช ์
- K-Point ํ๊ฐ์๋ฃ (TOPIK, ์๊ฒฉ์ฆ ๋ฑ)
- ์ ์๋ณด์ฆ์
- ๊ฒฐํต์ง๋จ์ (๊ณ ์ํ๊ตญ๊ฐ ์ถ์ ์)