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Overview of the F-3 Dependent Visa

Eunsun Park
Eunsun Park
11 months ago

โ… . Overview of the F-3 Dependent Visa

1. Legal Basis Annex Table 1 of the Enforcement Rule of the Immigration Control Act (Classification of Stay Visas)

2. Visa Category Name F-3 (Dependent Family)

3. Eligible Applicants The F-3 visa is granted to family members (spouse or children) who intend to accompany a foreign national who is legally residing long-term in Korea. In other words, the F-3 visa is a family visa linked to the main visa holderโ€™s status and stay period.

4. Examples of Main Visa Holders

  • E-series (Professional Employment, Professor, Conversation Instructor, Specialist, Investor, etc.)
  • D-series (Student, Research, Intra-company transferee, etc.)
  • F-2 / F-5 (Resident, Permanent Resident)

โ…ก. Main Legal References

  • Immigration Control Act Article 10 (Status of Stay and Period)
  • Enforcement Decree Article 12(1)-7
  • Enforcement Rule Article 9 (Required documents for visa issuance)
  • Ministry of Justice Stay Guidebook (Updated July 21, 2025)

โ…ข. Application Procedure

1. Where to Apply

  • Outside Korea: Korean Embassy or Consulate
  • Inside Korea: Local Immigration Office with jurisdiction over the main visa holderโ€™s residence

2. Who Can Apply

  • The dependent family member (F-3 applicant)
  • The main visa holder may also apply on behalf of the dependent

3. Application Method

  • In-person application or online via HiKorea
  • Electronic signature required for online submissions
  • For new F-3 visa issuance, in-person application is recommended

โ…ฃ. Required Documents (Standard Set)

No.DocumentNotes
1Visa Application FormEmbassy/Immigration Office form
2Original passport & copyValid for at least 6 months
3One photo (3.5 ร— 4.5 cm)Taken within 6 months
4Family relationship proofMarriage certificate, birth certificate
5Main visa holderโ€™s ARC copyFront & back
6Main visa holderโ€™s employment or enrollment certificateDepends on visa type
7Proof of financial abilityIncome/tax records or bank balance
8Proof of residenceLease contract or accommodation letter
9Fees60,000 KRW (visa issuance) / 130,000 KRW (status change)
10Invitation letter & guarantee letterWhen requested by the authority

โ…ค. Stay Period

  • Granted within the validity period of the main visa holderโ€™s stay (Example: E-7 main visa 2 years โ†’ F-3 spouse also receives 2 years)
  • Extensions are allowed for the same duration thereafter

โ…ฅ. Important Points When Applying

  1. Marriage and birth certificates must be Apostilled, or notarized + consular-authenticated. โ†’ Without authentication, the application may be rejected as โ€œinsufficient documentation.โ€
  2. Documents must be submitted in original + copy. Translations must include translatorโ€™s signature and contact information.
  3. If the family relationship is unclear or the immigration office suspects a sham application, additional interviews or home visits may be conducted.
  4. For dependent children attending school, an admission or enrollment letter is recommended.
  5. F-3 visa holders cannot work. Exception: if a spouse changes status (e.g., to E-7) through separate approval.

โ…ฆ. Tips for Preparing Documents

  • The invitation letter must clearly include the main visa holderโ€™s passport number, visa type, workplace/school.
  • For financial documents, provide: recent 3 monthsโ€™ payslips, bank statements, or employment contract.
  • If the immigration officer is not convinced that the family truly resides together, the visa may be denied.

โ…ง. Processing Time

  • Overseas application: approx. 2โ€“4 weeks
  • Domestic status change: approx. 3 weeks (4โ€“6 weeks for certain high-risk or highly scrutinized nationalities)

โ…จ. Practical Administrative Notes (Consultant Tips)

  • For status change inside Korea, the main visa holder must maintain lawful status with at least 30 days of stay remaining. (Ex: D-2 student โ†’ spouse can change to F-3)
  • When the main visa holder extends their stay, the F-3 dependent must extend together at the same time.

โ…ฉ. Summary

CategoryDetails
Eligible personsSpouse/children of long-term foreign residents
Stay periodSame as main visa holder
Where to applyImmigration Office or Embassy
Key documentsFamily proof, main visa holder proof, financial evidence
Fees60,000โ€“130,000 KRW
EmploymentNot allowed (unless separately approved)

โ… . F-3 ๋น„์ž ๊ฐœ์š”

1. ๋ฒ•์  ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ: ใ€Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๊ทœ์น™ใ€ ๋ณ„ํ‘œ 1 (์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ๋ณ„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ‘œ)

2. ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ๋ช…: F-3 (๋™๋ฐ˜, Dependent Family)

3. ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž: ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ค‘์ธ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ(๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ž ๋˜๋Š” ์ž๋…€ ๋“ฑ)์„ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€์—ฌ๋˜๋Š” ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, F-3 ๋น„์ž๋Š” โ€œ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž(main visa holder)โ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋น„์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4. ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž ์˜ˆ์‹œ:

  • E ๊ณ„์—ด(์ „๋ฌธ์ทจ์—…, ๊ต์ˆ˜, ํšŒํ™”์ง€๋„, ํŠน์ •ํ™œ๋™, ๊ธฐ์—…ํˆฌ์ž ๋“ฑ)
  • D ๊ณ„์—ด(์œ ํ•™, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, ์ฃผ์žฌ ๋“ฑ)
  • F-2, F-5 ๋“ฑ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผยท์˜์ฃผ์ž๊ฒฉ์ž

โ…ก. ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฒ•๋ น ๋ฐ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ

  • ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์ œ10์กฐ (์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„)
  • ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๋ น ์ œ12์กฐ ์ œ1ํ•ญ ์ œ7ํ˜ธ
  • ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๊ทœ์น™ ์ œ9์กฐ (์‚ฌ์ฆ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ ์ฒจ๋ถ€์„œ๋ฅ˜)
  • ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ๋ณ„ ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋งค๋‰ด์–ผ(2025.7.21. ๊ฐœ์ •)

โ…ข. ์‹ ์ฒญ ์ ˆ์ฐจ

1. ์‹ ์ฒญ ์žฅ์†Œ

  • ๊ตญ์™ธ ์‹ ์ฒญ: ์žฌ์™ธ๊ณต๊ด€(ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ๋˜๋Š” ์˜์‚ฌ๊ด€)
  • ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์‹ ์ฒญ: ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž์˜ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ง€ ๊ด€ํ•  ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ

2. ์‹ ์ฒญ์ž

  • ๋ณธ์ธ(๋™๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์กฑ) ๋˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž ๋ณธ์ธ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ

3. ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

  • ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋˜๋Š” ํ•˜์ด์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ ์ „์ž๋ฏผ์› ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
  • ํ•˜์ด์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ ์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ ์ „์ž์„œ๋ช… ํ•„์š” (F-3 ์‹ ๊ทœ๋Š” ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๊ถŒ์žฅ)

โ…ฃ. F-3 ๋น„์ž ๊ตฌ๋น„์„œ๋ฅ˜ (๊ธฐ๋ณธํ˜•)

๊ตฌ๋ถ„์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ช…๋น„๊ณ 
1์‚ฌ์ฆ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ๊ณต๊ด€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ ์–‘์‹
2์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์›๋ณธ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ์œ ํšจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ 6๊ฐœ์›” ์ด์ƒ
3์‚ฌ์ง„ 1๋งค (3.5ร—4.5cm)6๊ฐœ์›” ์ด๋‚ด ์ดฌ์˜
4๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์ž…์ฆ์„œ๋ฅ˜ํ˜ผ์ธ๊ด€๊ณ„์ฆ๋ช…์„œ, ์ถœ์ƒ์ฆ๋ช…์„œ ๋“ฑ
5์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ์•žยท๋’ท๋ฉด ์‚ฌ๋ณธ
6์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž์˜ ์žฌ์ง ๋˜๋Š” ์žฌํ•™์ฆ๋ช…์„œ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ƒ์ด
7์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž์˜ ์†Œ๋“์ฆ๋ช… ๋˜๋Š” ์žฌ์ •์ž…์ฆ์„œ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ถ€์–‘ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์ž…์ฆ
8๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์ง€ ์ž…์ฆ์„œ๋ฅ˜์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ, ์ˆ™์†Œ์ œ๊ณตํ™•์ธ์„œ ๋“ฑ
9์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ6๋งŒ ์› (์‚ฌ์ฆ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰), 13๋งŒ ์› (์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ)
10ํ‘œ์ค€์ดˆ์ฒญ์žฅ ๋ฐ ์‹ ์›๋ณด์ฆ์„œํ•„์š” ์‹œ ์ œ์ถœ ์š”๊ตฌ๋จ

โ…ค. ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„

  • ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž์˜ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ถ€์—ฌ (์˜ˆ: E-7 ์ฃผ์ฒด 2๋…„ โ†’ F-3 ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ž๋„ 2๋…„ ๋ถ€์—ฌ)
  • ์ดํ›„ ๋™์ผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋‹จ์œ„๋กœ ์—ฐ์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ

โ…ฅ. ์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ ์œ ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  1. ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์ฆ๋ช… ๋ฐ ์ถœ์ƒ์ฆ๋ช…์€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์•„ํฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ (Apostille) ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณต์ฆ ๋ฐ ์˜์‚ฌํ™•์ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ•จ. โ†’ ๋ฏธํ™•์ธ ์‹œ โ€œ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๋ถˆ์ถฉ๋ถ„โ€ ์‚ฌ์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  2. ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋Š” ์›๋ณธ + ์‚ฌ๋ณธ ์ œ์ถœ์ด ์›์น™์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ฒˆ์—ญ๋ฌธ์—๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ์ธ ์„œ๋ช… ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜ ๋ช…์‹œ.
  3. ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์ฆ๋ช…๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ—ˆ์œ„ ์ดˆ์ฒญ ์˜์‹ฌ ์‹œ ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ์ฒญ์€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ ๋˜๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ฑ๋ก์ง€ ์‹ค์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  4. ๋™๋ฐ˜์ž๋…€์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ดˆยท์ค‘๋“ฑ ์žฌํ•™ ์˜ˆ์ • ์‹œ ์žฌํ•™์˜ˆ์ •ํ™•์ธ์„œ ๋˜๋Š” ์ž…ํ•™์˜ˆ์ •์„œ ์ œ์ถœ ๊ถŒ์žฅ.
  5. F-3 ๋น„์ž๋Š” ์ทจ์—… ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ, ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž์˜ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ž๊ฐ€ โ€œE-7 ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€โ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ์˜ˆ์™ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ.

โ…ฆ. ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ์ž‘์„ฑ ์‹œ ์ฃผ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  • ์ดˆ์ฒญ์žฅ์—๋Š” ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž์˜ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ, ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ, ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒ˜(ํ•™๊ต) ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ธฐ์žฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์žฌ์ •์ฆ๋น™์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ 3๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธ‰์—ฌ๋ช…์„ธ์„œ, ํ†ต์žฅ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋‚ด์—ญ, ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์šฉ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ ์ œ์ถœ์ด ์œ ํšจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž์™€์˜ ์‹ค์ œ ๋™๊ฑฐ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์ž…์ฆ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๋น„์ž ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ…ง. ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„

  • ์žฌ์™ธ๊ณต๊ด€ ์ ‘์ˆ˜: ์•ฝ 2~4์ฃผ
  • ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹ ์ฒญ: ์•ฝ 3์ฃผ (์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋Œ€์ƒ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ 4~6์ฃผ๊นŒ์ง€ ์†Œ์š”)

โ…จ. ํ–‰์ •์‚ฌ ์‹ค๋ฌด ํŒ

  • ๊ตญ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹œ: ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฐ€ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ• ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ค‘์ด์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž”์—ฌ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด 30์ผ ์ด์ƒ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (์˜ˆ: D-2 ์œ ํ•™์ƒ โ†’ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์ž F-3 ๋™๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ)
  • ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์—ฐ์žฅ ์‹œ: F-3 ๋™๋ฐ˜์ž์˜ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๋„ ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋™์‹œ์— ์—ฐ์žฅ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ…ฉ. ๊ฒฐ๋ก  ์š”์•ฝ

ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์ฃผ์š” ๋‚ด์šฉ
๋Œ€์ƒ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์žยท์ž๋…€
์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด
์‹ ์ฒญ์žฅ์†Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ ๋˜๋Š” ์žฌ์™ธ๊ณต๊ด€
์ฃผ์š”์„œ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ด€๊ณ„์ฆ๋ช…, ์ฃผ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ฆ๋น™, ์žฌ์ •์„œ๋ฅ˜
์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ6๋งŒ~13๋งŒ ์›
์ทจ์—…์—ฌ๋ถ€์›์น™์  ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€ (ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ ์˜ˆ์™ธ)


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