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Alien Registration Cards (ARC) in Korea

Eunsun Park
Eunsun Park
8 months ago

What is an Alien Registration Card (ARC)?

An Alien Registration Card (ARC) is an identification card issued to foreign nationals staying in South Korea for more than 90 days. It serves as proof of legal stay and is required for essential services such as opening a bank account, signing a phone contract, or applying for a driverโ€™s license.


1. ARC Issuance

โ–ถ Eligible Applicants

  • Foreigners who plan to stay in Korea for more than 90 days.
  • Long-term visa holders (e.g., D-2 student, E-7 skilled worker, F-6 marriage migrant, etc.)

โ–ถ Application Deadline

  • Within 90 days of entry into Korea or from the date of status change.

โ–ถ Where to Apply

  • Immigration Office with jurisdiction over your residence.
  • Online via HiKorea.

โ–ถ Required Documents

  • Completed application form (Form No. 34)
  • Passport (original and copy)
  • 1 color photo (3.5 x 4.5 cm, white background, taken within 6 months)
  • Proof of residence (e.g., lease agreement or accommodation confirmation)
  • Additional documents based on visa type (e.g., admission letter, marriage certificate, etc.)

2. ARC Information Change Report

โ–ถ When to Report

  • Changes in name, nationality, address, passport number, etc.

โ–ถ Deadline

  • Within 14 days of the change.

โ–ถ Required Documents

  • Change notification form
  • Passport
  • Supporting document for the change (e.g., new lease, new passport)

3. Lost ARC โ€“ Report & Reissue

โ–ถ When to Report

  • Within 14 days of recognizing the loss.

โ–ถ Where to Apply

  • Local Immigration Office

โ–ถ Required Documents

  • Reissuance application form
  • Passport
  • 1 color photo (3.5 x 4.5 cm)
  • Proof of residence
  • Application fee: 30,000 KRW

โ–ถ Important Notes

  • Multiple losses may lead to investigation or denial of reissuance.
  • Failing to apply for reissuance may result in illegal stay status.

4. ARC Reissuance โ€“ Other Reasons

โ–ถ Valid Reasons

  • Loss, damage, identity photo replacement, registration number change, etc.

โ–ถ Application Channels

โ–ถ Fee

  • 35,000 KRW

5. Key Considerations

  • Adhere to deadlines for registration or updates to avoid fines.
  • Photo requirements: White background, showing ears and forehead, no hats.
  • Address changes must be reported to avoid penalties.
  • Do not lend or transfer the ARC to another person.

Legal Basis

  • Immigration Act Article 31
  • Enforcement Decree Article 36
  • Enforcement Rules (Form No. 34)

Process Summary Table

ServiceDeadlineFeeNotes
ARC IssuanceWithin 90 days of entryFreeIn-person or online
Change of InformationWithin 14 days of changeFreeAddress, passport, etc.
Lost ARC ReissueWithin 14 days of loss30,000 KRWInclude loss report
Reissue for other reasonsAs needed30,000 KRWE.g., damage or outdated photo

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ์ด๋ž€?

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์— 90์ผ์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€์— ๋“ฑ๋กํ•œ ํ›„ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฐ›๋Š” ์‹ ๋ถ„ํ™•์ธ์šฉ ์นด๋“œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ•์  ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ–‰์ • ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋‚˜ ์ผ์ƒ ์ƒํ™œ(์€ํ–‰ ๊ณ„์ขŒ ๊ฐœ์„ค, ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ ๊ฐœํ†ต, ์šด์ „๋ฉดํ—ˆ ์ทจ๋“ ๋“ฑ)์— ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


1. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰

โ— ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋Œ€์ƒ

  • ์ž…๊ตญ ํ›„ 90์ผ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์˜ˆ์ •์ธ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ
  • ์œ ํ•™(D-2), ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์ด๋ฏผ(F-6), ํŠน์ •ํ™œ๋™(E-7) ๋“ฑ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ์ž

โ— ์‹ ์ฒญ๊ธฐํ•œ

  • ์ž…๊ตญ์ผ ๋˜๋Š” ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์ผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 90์ผ ์ด๋‚ด

โ— ์‹ ์ฒญ์žฅ์†Œ

  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ง€ ๊ด€ํ•  ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ ๋˜๋Š” ์ถœ์žฅ์†Œ

โ— ๊ตฌ๋น„์„œ๋ฅ˜

  • ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ (์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๊ทœ์น™ ๋ณ„์ง€ ์ œ34ํ˜ธ)
  • ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์›๋ณธ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ
  • ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ์‚ฌ์ง„ 1๋งค (3.5ร—4.5cm, 6๊ฐœ์›” ์ด๋‚ด ์ดฌ์˜, ํฐ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ)
  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ง€ ์ž…์ฆ์„œ๋ฅ˜ (์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ, ์ˆ™์†Œ์ œ๊ณตํ™•์ธ์„œ ๋“ฑ)
  • ํ•ด๋‹น ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ๋ณ„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ (์˜ˆ: ์ž…ํ•™ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€์„œ, ํ˜ผ์ธ๊ด€๊ณ„์ฆ๋ช…์„œ ๋“ฑ)

2. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๊ธฐ์žฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹ ๊ณ 

โ— ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์‹ ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์œ 

  • ์ด๋ฆ„, ๊ตญ์ , ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ง€ ์ฃผ์†Œ ๋“ฑ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹œ
  • ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์—ฌ๊ถŒ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ

โ— ์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธฐํ•œ

  • ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์ผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 14์ผ ์ด๋‚ด

โ— ์‹ ์ฒญ์žฅ์†Œ

  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ง€ ๊ด€ํ•  ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ ๋˜๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ(ํ•˜์ด์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„)

โ— ๊ตฌ๋น„์„œ๋ฅ˜

  • ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์‹ ๊ณ ์„œ
  • ์—ฌ๊ถŒ
  • ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„œ๋ฅ˜ (์˜ˆ: ์—ฌ๊ถŒ, ์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ)

3. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๋ถ„์‹ค

โ— ์‹ ๊ณ ๊ธฐํ•œ

  • ๋ถ„์‹ค ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ธ์ง€ํ•œ ๋‚ ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 14์ผ ์ด๋‚ด

โ— ์‹ ์ฒญ์žฅ์†Œ

  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ง€ ๊ด€ํ•  ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ ๋˜๋Š” ์ถœ์žฅ์†Œ

โ— ๊ตฌ๋น„์„œ๋ฅ˜

  • ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ
  • ์—ฌ๊ถŒ
  • ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ์‚ฌ์ง„ 1๋งค (3.5ร—4.5cm)
  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ง€ ์ž…์ฆ์„œ๋ฅ˜
  • ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ: 3.5๋งŒ์›

โ— ์œ ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  • ๋ถ„์‹ค ์‚ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์ด์ต์ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ
  • ๋ถ„์‹ค์‹ ๊ณ ๋งŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ๋ถˆ๋ฒ• ์ƒํ™ฉ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ

4. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ์‚ฌ์œ 

  • ๋ถ„์‹ค
  • ํ›ผ์†
  • ์‚ฌ์ง„๋ณ€๊ฒฝ(๋ณธ์ธ ์ธ์‹ ๊ณค๋ž€ ์‹œ)
  • ๋“ฑ๋ก๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‚ฌ์œ  ๋ฐœ์ƒ

โ— ์‹ ์ฒญ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

  • ๊ด€ํ•  ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๋˜๋Š” ํ•˜์ด์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์‹ ์ฒญ

โ— ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ

  • 3๋งŒ์›

5. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๊ด€๋ จ ์—…๋ฌด ์‹œ ์œ ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  1. ๊ธฐํ•œ ์ค€์ˆ˜
    • ๋“ฑ๋ก, ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์‹ ๊ณ , ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ๊ธฐํ•œ ๋‚ด ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๊ณผํƒœ๋ฃŒ ๋ถ€๊ณผ
  2. ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๊ทœ๊ฒฉ ์—„์ˆ˜
    • 3.5cm ร— 4.5cm, ํฐ์ƒ‰ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ, ๊ท€์™€ ์ด๋งˆ ๋…ธ์ถœ
  3. ์ฃผ์†Œ์ง€ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ๋ฏธ์‹ ๊ณ  ์‹œ ๊ณผํƒœ๋ฃŒ
    • ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ์˜ ์ฃผ์†Œ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ตœ์‹  ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•จ
  4. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ์€ ํƒ€์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์—ฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์–‘๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€

๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฒ•๋ น

  • ใ€Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ•ใ€ ์ œ31์กฐ (๋“ฑ๋ก)
  • ใ€Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๋ นใ€ ์ œ36์กฐ (๋“ฑ๋ก์˜๋ฌด)
  • ใ€Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๊ทœ์น™ใ€ ์ œ34ํ˜ธ ์„œ์‹ ๋“ฑ

ํ–‰์ •์ ˆ์ฐจ ์š”์•ฝ

์—…๋ฌด๊ตฌ๋ถ„์‹ ์ฒญ๊ธฐํ•œ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋น„๊ณ 
๋“ฑ๋ก์‹ ์ฒญ์ž…๊ตญ ํ›„ 90์ผ ์ด๋‚ด์—†์Œ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ/๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ
๊ธฐ์žฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์ผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 14์ผ ์ด๋‚ด์—†์Œ์ฃผ์†Œ ๋“ฑ
๋ถ„์‹ค ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ถ„์‹ค ์ธ์ง€ ํ›„ 14์ผ ์ด๋‚ด30,000์›์‚ฌ์œ ์„œ ํฌํ•จ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
์‚ฌ์ง„๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ๋“ฑ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰์‚ฌ์œ  ๋ฐœ์ƒ ์‹œ30,000์›์™ธ๊ด€ ํ›ผ์† ๋“ฑ



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