What Is the F-6 Marriage Visa?
The F-6 Marriage Visa is a long-term visa that allows a foreign national who is legally married to a Korean citizen to live and work in Korea.
Often referred to as the international marriage visa, this visa grants much broader privileges than short-term visas (like C-3), including employment rights and longer residency.
1. Types of F-6 Visa (Subcategories)
| Visa Code | Description |
|---|---|
| F-6-1 | For those in a normal, ongoing marital relationship |
| F-6-2 | For those who are divorced or widowed but are raising a child |
| F-6-3 | For victims of domestic violence or human trafficking |
Most applicants will apply for the F-6-1, and depending on future circumstances, the status may be changed to F-6-2 or F-6-3.
2. F-6 Marriage Visa Eligibility
1)For the Foreign Spouse
- Must be legally married to a Korean citizen
- The purpose of stay must be to maintain a genuine marriage
- Should be applying for their first F-6 visa
2) For the Korean Spouse
- Must meet minimum income or housing requirements
- Able to prove genuine marital relationship
- Must not have serious criminal records
3. F-6 Marriage Visa Application Process
- Register the Marriage
- The marriage must be registered in both Korea and the foreign spouseโs home country
- Obtain a Korean Marriage Certificate and Family Registry Document
- Apply for the Visa
- Submit documents to the Korean Embassy or Consulate in the foreign spouseโs country
- Undergo Visa Screening
- Paper review + interview (if necessary)
- If documents are missing or there's suspicion of a sham marriage, the visa may be denied
- Enter Korea & Register
- Once the visa is issued, enter Korea
- Must apply for an Alien Registration Card within 90 days
4. Required Documents for F-6 Marriage Visa (Basic List)
| Document | Notes |
|---|---|
| Visa application form | Provided by embassy |
| Passport (original + copy) | At least 6 months validity |
| One passport photo | 3.5 x 4.5 cm |
| Marriage certificate | Issued in Korea |
| Family registry | Issued in Korea |
| Criminal record certificate | Must be translated and notarized |
| Health check (TB test) | Required for long-term stay |
| Sponsorship letter | From Korean spouse |
| Proof of housing | Lease contract or ownership documents |
| Proof of income | Income tax certificate, bank statements, etc. |
Document requirements may vary slightly depending on embassy and personal circumstances. Always confirm with your local Korean diplomatic mission.
5. Tips for Preparing Documents
- Criminal record certificate must be official, translated, and notarized
- Income requirement: Generally at least 100% of Korea's median income (Approx. KRW 2 million/month as of 2025)
- Any forged or false documents may result in visa denial and even criminal prosecution
- Itโs recommended to apply within 6 months of marriage to avoid suspicion
- Be prepared for interviews: questions often test the genuineness of the marriage
6. After the Visa Is Issued
- Initial visa duration is usually 1 year
- Extension may require additional interviews or home inspections
- If the couple separates or the marriage breaks down, the visa may not be extended
- After 2 years on the F-6 visa, the foreign spouse may apply for Korean permanent residency (F-5) or naturalization
7. Common Reasons for Rejection
- Sham marriage or submitting false documents
- Korean spouse fails income or housing requirements
- Foreign spouse has a criminal record
- Inconsistent or vague answers during the interview
Conclusion: Love Alone Is Not Enough
While the F-6 visa is based on marriage, a genuine and stable life together is key to approval. Korean immigration authorities will carefully review the case for signs of marital authenticity, financial stability, and public safety.
We recommend working with a qualified immigration attorney or administrative agent, especially if your situation is complex or if you've previously been denied a visa.
๊ฒฐํผ๋น์(F-6) ์ค๋น๋ฐฉ๋ฒ ์ด์ ๋ฆฌ: ์๋ฅ, ์ ์ฐจ, ์ฃผ์์ฌํญ๊น์ง ์๋ฒฝ ๊ฐ์ด๋
1. ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์(F-6)๋?
**๊ฒฐํผ๋น์(F-6)**๋ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ํผ์ธํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์๊ฐ ๊ตญ๋ด์ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ๋ฉฐ ์ํํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ถ์ฌ๋๋ ์ฒด๋ฅ ์๊ฒฉ์ ๋๋ค.
์ผ๋ช ๊ตญ์ ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์๋ผ๊ณ ๋ ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ๋จ๊ธฐ ์ฒด๋ฅ๋น์(C-3)์ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฒด๋ฅ์ ์ทจ์ ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์๊ฒฉ์ ๋๋ค. F-6 ๋น์๋ ์ด 3๊ฐ์ง ํ์ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก ๋๋๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฑด์ด ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค.
2. ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์์ ์ข ๋ฅ (F-6 ํ์์ ํ)
| ๋น์์ฝ๋ | ์ ํ ์ค๋ช |
|---|---|
| F-6-1 | ์ ์์ ์ธ ํผ์ธ๊ด๊ณ ์ ์ง ๋ชฉ์ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅ |
| F-6-2 | ์ดํผ ๋๋ ์ฌ๋ณํ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์๊ฐ ์๋ ๋ฅผ ์์กํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ |
| F-6-3 | ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ, ์ธ์ ๋งค๋งค ๋ฑ์ ํผํด์ ๋ณดํธ ๋ชฉ์ ์ฒด๋ฅ |
๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ ์ฒญ์๋ F-6-1์ ํตํด ์ ๊ตญํ๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ ์ฌ์ ๋ณํ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ F-6-2 ๋๋ F-6-3์ผ๋ก ๋ณ๊ฒฝ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
3. ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์ ์ ์ฒญ ์๊ฒฉ
1) ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์ ์๊ฑด
- ํ๊ตญ์ธ๊ณผ ๋ฒ์ ํผ์ธ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ ์ง ์ค์ผ ๊ฒ
- ์ถ์ ๊ตญ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ํผ์ธ์ํ ์ ์ง์ผ ๊ฒ
- ๊ฒฐํผ ์ด๋ฏผ ๋ชฉ์ ์ ์ฌ์ฆ์ ์ฒ์ ์ ์ฒญํ๋ ์์ผ ๊ฒ
2) ํ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์ ์๊ฑด
- ์ผ์ ํ ์๋ ๋๋ ์ฃผ๊ฑฐ ๊ณต๊ฐ ํ๋ณด
- ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์์์ ์ค์ง์ ํผ์ธ ์ฌ์ค ์ ์ฆ
- ๋ฒ์ฃ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ๋ฑ ๊ฒฐ๊ฒฉ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ ์์ ๊ฒ
4. ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์ ์ ์ฒญ ์ ์ฐจ
- ํผ์ธ์ ๊ณ
- ํ๊ตญ ๋ฐ ์ธ๊ตญ ์๊ตญ์ ํผ์ธ์ ๊ณ ์๋ฃ
- ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ด๊ณ๋ฑ๋ก๋ถ ๋๋ ํผ์ธ๊ด๊ณ์ฆ๋ช ์ ๋ฐ๊ธ
- ๋น์ ์ ์ฒญ
- ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์๊ฐ ๋ชจ๊ตญ ์ฃผ์ฌ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๋์ฌ๊ด ๋๋ ์ด์์ฌ๊ด์ ์ ์ฒญ
- ๋น์์ฌ์ฌ
- ์๋ฅ ์ฌ์ฌ + ํ์ ์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ์ค์
- ์๋ฅ ๋ฏธ๋น, ํ์์ง์ , ์์ฅ๊ฒฐํผ ์์ฌ ์ ๋ณด์ ๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ
- ์
๊ตญ ๋ฐ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก
- ์ฌ์ฆ ๋ฐ๊ธ ํ ์ ๊ตญ
- 90์ผ ์ด๋ด ์ถ์ ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋ฌด์์์ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๋ฐ๊ธ
5. ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์ ์ ์ถ์๋ฅ (๊ณตํต)
| ์๋ฅ๋ช | ๋น๊ณ |
|---|---|
| ์ฌ์ฆ๋ฐ๊ธ์ ์ฒญ์ | ์ง์ ์์ |
| ์ฌ๊ถ ์๋ณธ ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ณธ | ์ ํจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ 6๊ฐ์ ์ด์ |
| ์ฌ์ง 1๋งค | ์ฌ๊ถ์ฉ (3.5x4.5cm) |
| ํผ์ธ๊ด๊ณ์ฆ๋ช ์ | ํ๊ตญ ๋ฐ๊ธ |
| ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ด๊ณ์ฆ๋ช ์ | ํ๊ตญ ๋ฐ๊ธ |
| ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฒ์ฃ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช ์ | 6๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ด ๋ฐ๊ธ + ๋ฒ์ญ๊ณต์ฆ |
| ๊ฑด๊ฐ์ง๋จ์ | ๊ฒฐํต ๊ฒ์ฌ ํฌํจ |
| ์ ์๋ณด์ฆ์ | ํ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์๊ฐ ์์ฑ |
| ์ฃผ๊ฑฐ์ง ์ฆ๋ช ์๋ฅ | ๋ฑ๊ธฐ๋ถ๋ฑ๋ณธ, ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ฝ์ ๋ฑ |
| ์๋์ฆ๋ช ์ | ์ต๊ทผ 1๋ ๊ฐ ์๋๊ธ์ก์ฆ๋ช ์ ๋ฑ |
โป ์ ์ถ์๋ฅ๋ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น ์ 9์กฐ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ ๊ณต๊ด์ ์๋ด์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง ์ ์์ผ๋ฏ๋ก, ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฌ์ ์ ํ์ธํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
6. ์๋ฅ ์ค๋น ์ ์ฃผ์์ฌํญ
- ๋ฒ์ฃ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช ์๋ ๋ฐ๋์ ๋ณธ๊ตญ ์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๊ด ๋ฐ๊ธ + ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ฒ์ญ๊ณต์ฆ
- ์๋์๊ฑด: ๋ฒ๋ฌด๋ถ ๊ธฐ์ค ์ค์์๋ 100% ์ด์ (2025๋ ๊ธฐ์ค: ์ฝ ์ 200๋ง ์ ์ด์)
- ์์กฐ์๋ฅ, ํ์ ์ง์ ๋ฑ์ ์ ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง ๋๋ ํ์ฌ์ฒ๋ฒ ๋์
- ๊ฒฐํผ ํ 6๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ด ์ ์ฒญ ๊ถ์ฅ (์ง์ฐ ์ ์์ฌ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์์)
- ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ๋๋น: ํผ์ธ ์ง์ ์ฑ ๊ด๋ จ ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋น ํ์
7. ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์ ๋ฐ๊ธ ์ดํ ์ฃผ์์ฌํญ
- ์ต์ด ์ฒด๋ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ 1๋
- ์ดํ ์ฐ์ฅ ์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ ๋๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์กฐ์ฌ ๊ฐ๋ฅ
- ์ค์ง์ ํผ์ธ์ํ์ด ์ ์ง๋์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ๋น์ ์ฐ์ฅ ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ
- **๊ทํ ์ ์ฒญ(F-6 ์ฒด๋ฅ ํ 2๋ ์ด์)**์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ์๋ ์์
8. ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ฌ์
- ์์ฅ๊ฒฐํผ ๋๋ ํ์์๋ฅ
- ํ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์์ ๋ฒ์ฃ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ๋๋ ์๋ ๋ฏธ๋ฌ
- ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์์ ์ค๋ํ ๋ฒ์ฃ ์ด๋ ฅ
- ๋ฉด์ ์ ์ง์ ์ฑ ๋ถ์กฑ, ์ง๋ฌธ ๋ถ์ผ์น ๋ฑ
๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ: ๊ฒฐํผ๋น์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ถฉ๋ถํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค
**๊ฒฐํผ๋น์(F-6)**๋ ๋จ์ํ ์ฌ๋์ ์ฆ๋ช ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋ฒ์ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ, ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ ฅ, ์ํ์ ์ค์ง์ฑ ๋ฑ์ ์ ์ฆํด์ผ ํ๋ ์ฒด๋ฅ ์๊ฒฉ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ ํํ ์๋ฅ ์ค๋น์ ์ ๋ต์ ์ธ ๋์์ด ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ฉด ํ์ ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์ ์กฐ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์คํ ์งํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์ ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง, ์ฌ์ ์ฒญ ์ ํ ๋ฑ ์น๋ช ์ ์ธ ๋ถ์ด์ต์ด ๋ฐ์ํ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค.