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Eligibility criteria for the E-7-4 visa (Skilled Worker Visa)

Eunsun Park
Eunsun Park
8 months ago

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

RequirementDescription
Current StatusMust hold E-9 or H-2 visa
Employment DurationMust have worked for at least 1 year in the same company
K-Point SystemMust score at least 52 points or more out of 80
Application ChannelMust apply through one of the following: employer recommendation, government or local authority recommendation, or point-based personal track
Clean RecordNo 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:

TrackDescription
Employer RecommendationRecommended by the company after 1+ years of employment
Government Ministry RecommendationMinistries like Ministry of Employment and Labor, Ministry of Agriculture, etc. recommend workers based on industry needs
Local Government RecommendationMust be employed in a company located in the same province for at least 1 year
Personal Point TrackApply individually without recommendation by earning sufficient points (most competitive)
Flexible Quota TrackAllocated dynamically based on future industry demands

4 K-Point System Overview

You must earn at least 52 out of 80 points in total.

CategoryMaximum Points
Length of Employment15 pts
Korean Language Proficiency (TOPIK, EPS-TOPIK)20 pts
Technical or Professional Certifications20 pts
Clean Immigration/Criminal RecordUp to 20 pts (may deduct)
Additional Recommendation Points10 pts

Note: Higher scores improve your chances if demand exceeds quota.


5 How to Apply

StepDescription
PeriodYear-round online application
PlatformHiKorea (official government portal)
5-Day Rotation SystemApplications allowed based on the last digit of birth year (Mon-Fri system)
DocumentsMust be uploaded in PDF/JPG and within size limits

6 Required Documents

  • Application for change of status (์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ)
  • 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 ๋น„์ž ์‹ ์ฒญ์ž๊ฒฉ ์š”์•ฝ

1. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์‹ ์ฒญ ์กฐ๊ฑด

ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์š”๊ฑด
์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉE-9 ๋˜๋Š” H-2 ์ž๊ฒฉ ์†Œ์ง€์ž
๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฒฝ๋ ฅํ˜„์žฌ ๊ณ ์šฉ ์ค‘์ธ ์—…์ฒด์—์„œ 1๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ทผ๋ฌด
์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ์‹œ์ E-9: ์ตœ์ดˆ์ž…๊ตญ ํ›„ 4๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ „, H-2: ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ค‘ 1๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์‹œ์ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ
์ ์ˆ˜์ œ ๊ธฐ์ค€K-Point 52์  ์ด์ƒ ์ทจ๋“ ํ•„์ˆ˜

2-์„ธ๋ถ€ ์š”๊ฑด๋ณ„ ์ •๋ฆฌ

2. K-Point ์ ์ˆ˜์ œ

  • ์ด 80์  ๋งŒ์  ๊ธฐ์ค€
  • 52์  ์ด์ƒ ๋“์ ํ•ด์•ผ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
  • ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋ณ„ ์ ์ˆ˜ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Œ:
ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋ฐฐ์ 
๊ณ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ (์ตœ๋Œ€ 15์ )๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ
ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋Šฅ๋ ฅ (์ตœ๋Œ€ 20์ )TOPIK 1๊ธ‰ ์ด์ƒ ๋˜๋Š” EPS-TOPIK
์ž๊ฒฉ์ฆ (์ตœ๋Œ€ 20์ )ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๊ตญ์˜ ์ž๊ฒฉ์ฆ ์ธ์ •
๋ฒ”์ฃ„/๋ถˆ๋ฒ•ํ–‰์œ„ (๊ฐ์  5~20์ )๋ฒ”์น™๊ธˆ, ์œ„๋ฐ˜์‚ฌํ•ญ ๋“ฑ
์ถ”์ฒœ ๊ฐ€์  (์ค‘์•™๋ถ€์ฒ˜/์ง€์ž์ฒด/ํƒ„๋ ฅ์ฟผํ„ฐ)์ตœ๋Œ€ 10์  ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ

์„ธ๋ถ€ ๋ฐฐ์ ํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ์ฒจ๋ถ€ ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


3- ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ณ„ ์œ ํ˜•

์œ ํ˜•์„ค๋ช…
๊ธฐ์—…์ถ”์ฒœ ํŠธ๋ž™๊ณ ์šฉ ์ค‘์ธ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์‹ ์ฒญ
์ค‘์•™๋ถ€์ฒ˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ๊ณ ์šฉ๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€, ์‚ฐ์—…๋ถ€, ๋†๋ฆผ๋ถ€ ๋“ฑ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์ฒ˜์˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ ํ•„์š”
์ง€์ž์ฒด ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ ๊ธฐ์—…์— 1๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ํ›„ ์ง€์ž์ฒด ์ถ”์ฒœ ํ•„์š”
๊ฐœ์ธํŠธ๋ž™(์ ์ˆ˜์ œ)์ถ”์ฒœ ์—†์ด ์ ์ˆ˜๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ ์ฒญ (๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ฅ ์ด ๋†’์Œ)
ํƒ„๋ ฅ์ฟผํ„ฐ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ณ„๋„๋กœ ํƒ„๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฟผํ„ฐ (์‚ฐ์—… ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์œ ์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์ •๋จ)

2024๋…„ ๊ธฐ์ค€: ๊ธฐ์—…์ถ”์ฒœ ์•ฝ 34%, ๊ฐœ์ธํŠธ๋ž™ 32%, ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ค‘์•™๋ถ€์ฒ˜/์ง€์ž์ฒด ๋“ฑ ์ถ”์ฒœ ์ฟผํ„ฐ๋กœ ๋ถ„์‚ฐ


4- ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

  1. ์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ๊ธฐ: ์—ฐ์ค‘ ์ƒ์‹œ ์ ‘์ˆ˜
  2. ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•: ํ•˜์ด์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„(www.hikorea.go.kr) ์ „์ž๋ฏผ์› ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์ด์šฉ
  3. 5๋ถ€์ œ ์‹ ์ฒญ์ œ๋„ ์šด์˜: ์‹ ์ฒญ์ธ์˜ ์ถœ์ƒ์—ฐ๋„ ๋์ž๋ฆฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ ‘์ˆ˜ ์š”์ผ ์ œํ•œ

5- ์ฃผ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ง€์™€ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋™์ผ ์ง€์ž์ฒด์ผ ๊ฒƒ (์ง€์ž์ฒด ์ถ”์ฒœ ์‹œ 2๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์œ ์ง€ ์˜๋ฌด)
  • ๋น„์ˆ˜๋„๊ถŒ ์ง€์—ญ ํŠน๋ก€์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, 3๋…„ ์˜๋ฌด๊ทผ๋ฌด ๋ฐ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ํ•„์š”
  • ๋ถˆ๋ฒ•์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ด๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์‹ ์ฒญ ์ œํ•œ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ
  • ํ—ˆ์œ„์„œ๋ฅ˜ ์ œ์ถœ, ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€ ๋ถˆ์ผ์น˜ ๋“ฑ์€ ๋น„์ž์ทจ์†Œ ๋ฐ ํ‡ด๊ฑฐ์‚ฌ์œ 

6- ์ œ์ถœ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ์˜ˆ์‹œ

  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ
  • ์—ฌ๊ถŒ, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ
  • ๊ณ ์šฉ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…์ž๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ
  • 4๋Œ€ ๋ณดํ—˜ ๊ฐ€์ž…์ฆ๋ช…
  • ๊ทผ๋ฌด๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช…์„œ
  • K-Point ํ‰๊ฐ€์ž๋ฃŒ (TOPIK, ์ž๊ฒฉ์ฆ ๋“ฑ)
  • ์‹ ์›๋ณด์ฆ์„œ
  • ๊ฒฐํ•ต์ง„๋‹จ์„œ (๊ณ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ถœ์‹ ์ž)


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