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A person with an F-4 visa received a fine of 7 million KRW for DUI, left Korea, and re-entered after 2 years on a C-3-8 visa

Eunsun Park
Eunsun Park
11 months ago

A person with an F-4 visa received a fine of 7 million KRW for DUI, left Korea, and re-entered after 2 years on a C-3-8 visa. Can they apply for the F-4 visa again?


1. Understanding the F-4 Visa

The F-4 visa is for Overseas Koreans (ethnic Koreans with foreign nationality). It allows for long-term stay and employment in Korea with relatively fewer restrictions than other visas. Itโ€™s often issued to former Korean nationals, ethnic Koreans from China (Joseonjok), or CIS countries (Koryoin), depending on their background.


2. Violation: DUI with a fine of 7 million KRW

  • According to the Immigration Control Act, a person who received a criminal penalty, such as a fine over 500,000 KRW, is generally subject to criminal background screening (์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ, "Sabeom review").
  • A fine of 7 million KRW is considered a serious offense, especially under DUI (Driving Under the Influence), and must be disclosed during any immigration or visa process.

3. After 2 Years โ€” Can They Apply for F-4 Again?

Yes, they can apply, but itโ€™s subject to an immigration crime review ("์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ") due to the prior DUI conviction.

The key factors for approval will include:

  • Time passed since the violation (2 years is helpful),
  • No repeat offenses,
  • Evidence of rehabilitation,
  • Strong connection to Korea (e.g., Korean ancestry, family ties, prior F-4 holder),
  • Submission of proper documents and sincere statements of remorse.

4. Process to Apply for F-4 Again (from C-3-8)

  1. Apply for Change of Status: C-3-8 โ†’ F-4
    • Submit at immigration office or online (HiKorea platform)
  2. Undergo Criminal Background Review:
    • Must disclose the DUI conviction
    • Submit a letter of explanation and apology statement
    • Supporting documents: clean criminal record since reentry, employment or study plans in Korea
  3. Processing Time: 2โ€“3 months (may vary)

5. Documents to Prepare (Indicative)

  • Application form (for change of visa status)
  • Valid passport & foreign registration card
  • Documents proving Korean ethnicity (e.g., family relation, birth certificates, etc.)
  • Criminal background check from home country (with apostille)
  • Apology letter / Explanation of the offense
  • Proof of fine payment
  • Family sponsorโ€™s identity documents (optional)
  • Personal statement showing purpose of stay and future plan

6. Important Points for Document Preparation

  • Be honest and detailed in your explanation of the DUI offense
  • Emphasize no repeat violations, awareness of the seriousness, and commitment to abide by Korean law
  • Do not hide the criminal history โ€” doing so may lead to visa denial or cancellation later under Article 89-2 of the Immigration Control Act

7. Relevant Laws & Guidelines

  • Immigration Control Act, Article 12 (Reasons for denying stay permission)
  • Enforcement Decree, Article 33 (Change of status denial)
  • Overseas Koreans Act, Article 5 (Requirements for F-4)
  • Visa Manual / Criminal Review Guidelines

Summary

You can reapply for an F-4 visa even after a 7 million KRW DUI fine if 2 years have passed and you have reentered Korea lawfully (on a C-3-8 visa). However, the application will be subject to a criminal review, and you must demonstrate sincerity, rehabilitation, and no risk of reoffending.

F-4 ๋น„์ž ์†Œ์ง€์ž๊ฐ€ ์Œ์ฃผ์šด์ „์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ 700๋งŒ ์›์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์ถœ๊ตญํ•œ ํ›„ 2๋…„ ๋’ค C-3-8 ๋น„์ž๋กœ ์žฌ์ž…๊ตญํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋‹ค์‹œ F-4 ์ž๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€?


1. ๊ด€๋ จ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ์„ค๋ช…: F-4 ๋น„์ž๋ž€?

F-4(์žฌ์™ธ๋™ํฌ) ๋น„์ž๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์™ธ์˜ ๊ตญ์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋™ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ผ์ •ํ•œ ์š”๊ฑด์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋น„๊ต์  ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์™€ ์ทจ์—…์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ž๊ฒฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ๋ณ‘์—ญ์˜๋ฌด ๋ฉด์ œ์ž, ์กฐ์„ ์กฑ, ๊ณ ๋ ค์ธ ๋“ฑ ์ผ์ • ๊ณ„์—ด์˜ ์žฌ์™ธ๋™ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง€๋ฉฐ, ์ž๊ฒฉ์œ ํ˜•์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


2. ์œ„๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฌ์‹ค: ์Œ์ฃผ์šด์ „ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ 700๋งŒ ์›

  • ใ€Œ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰๋ นใ€ ์ œ12์กฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ผ์ • ๊ธˆ์•ก ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆํ˜• ์ „๊ณผ๋Š” ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ถ€์—ฌ ๋ฐ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ถˆ์ด์ต ์‚ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ 500๋งŒ ์› ์ด์ƒ์€ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋˜์–ด ์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ถ€์—ฌ ์‹œ ๋ถˆ์ด์ต ์‚ฌ์œ ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. ์žฌ์ž…๊ตญ ํ›„ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ

์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž ์‚ฌ๋ก€์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋‚ด์šฉ
์ „ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉF-4
์œ„๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์Œ์ฃผ์šด์ „ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ 700๋งŒ ์›
ํ›„์† ์กฐ์น˜์ถœ๊ตญ
ํ˜„์žฌ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉC-3-8 (๋‹จ๊ธฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ, ์นœ์ง€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๋“ฑ)
์žฌ์ž…๊ตญ ์‹œ์ ์œ„๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์•ฝ 2๋…„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ

โ€ป C-3-8์€ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์‚ฌ์ฆ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ, ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜๋‚˜ ์ทจ์—…์€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, F-4๋กœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹œ ์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ํ†ต๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


4. F-4 ๋น„์ž ์žฌ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ์—ฌ๋ถ€

๊ฒฐ๋ก : ์žฌ์‹ ์ฒญ์€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‚˜, ์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์ •๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ด€๋ จ ์ง€์นจ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ค€์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด:

  • ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆํ˜•์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ˜•๋Ÿ‰์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ธˆ์•ก ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ,
  • 700๋งŒ ์›์€ ๊ณ ์•ก ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋˜์–ด ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์žˆ์Œ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ํ˜• ํ™•์ • ํ›„ 2๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ, ์žฌ๋ฒ” ์—†์Œ, ์ง„์ง€ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜์„ฑ ํƒœ๋„, ์žฌ์™ธ๋™ํฌ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ฑ ๊ฐ•ํ•จ(F-4 ์š”๊ฑด ์ถฉ์กฑ) ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ํ†ต๊ณผ ํ›„ ์žฌ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฆ‰, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์ผ๋ฅ ์ ์œผ๋กœ F-4๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆํ—ˆ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ํ›„ ํŒ๋‹จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


5. F-4 ์ž๊ฒฉ ์žฌ์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ

  1. ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹ ์ฒญ
    • ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ: ํ•˜์ด์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„ ๋˜๋Š” ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ
    • ์‹ ์ฒญ ์ข…๋ฅ˜: C-3-8 โ†’ F-4 ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹ ์ฒญ
  2. ์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰
    • ์Œ์ฃผ์šด์ „ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ๋ช…์‹œ ๋ฐ ๋ฐ˜์„ฑ๋ฌธ, ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„œ(์„ ํƒ), ์„ฑ์‹ค๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ž…์ฆ์ž๋ฃŒ ์ œ์ถœ
  3. ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 2~3๊ฐœ์›”
  4. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผํ†ต๋ณด: ์„œ๋ฉด ํ†ต์ง€

6. ์ œ์ถœ์„œ๋ฅ˜ (์‚ฌ๋ก€ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ)

  • ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ—ˆ๊ฐ€์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ
  • ์—ฌ๊ถŒ, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์ฆ๋ช…์„œ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ฆ๋ช…์„œ (ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ํ™•์ธ์šฉ)
  • ๋ณธ๊ตญ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ฆ๋ช…์„œ (๊ณต์ฆ ๋ฐ ์•„ํฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ์œ  ํ•„์š”)
  • ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ฒฝ์œ„์„œ ๋ฐ ๋ฐ˜์„ฑ๋ฌธ
  • ๋‚ฉ๋ถ€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋œ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ ๊ด€๋ จ ์ž๋ฃŒ
  • ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ์‹ ์›๋ณด์ฆ์„œ (์„ ํƒ)
  • F-4 ์š”๊ฑด ์ž…์ฆ์„œ๋ฅ˜ (์กธ์—…์žฅ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋“ฑ)

7. ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ์ž‘์„ฑ ์‹œ ์ฃผ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  • ๋ฐ˜์„ฑ๋ฌธ์€ ์ง„์ •์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„๊ณผ ์žฌ๋ฒ”๋ฐฉ์ง€ ์•ฝ์†์„ ํฌํ•จํ•ด์•ผ ํ•จ
  • ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์‚ฌ์‹ค ์€ํ ์‹œ ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฒ• ์ œ89์กฐ์˜2์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ทจ์†Œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
  • ์™ธ๊ตญ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ˆ„๋ฝ ์‹œ ์ถœ๊ตญ์กฐ์น˜ ๋˜๋Š” ์ž…๊ตญ๊ธˆ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ ์žˆ

๊ฒฐ๋ก  ์š”์•ฝ

F-4 ์ž๊ฒฉ์ž๋Š” ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ 700๋งŒ ์›์˜ ์Œ์ฃผ์šด์ „ ์ „๊ณผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋˜๋ฉฐ, 2๋…„์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•œ ํ˜„์žฌ C-3-8 ๋น„์ž ์†Œ์ง€ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ F-4๋กœ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‹ ์ฒญ์€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์‚ฌ๋ฒ”์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์žฌ์ž…๊ตญ ์ดํ›„ ์„ฑ์‹ค์„ฑ, ์žฌ๋ฒ” ์œ„ํ—˜์„ฑ, ์‚ฌํšŒ์ •์ฐฉ์˜์ง€ ๋“ฑ์„ ์ข…ํ•ฉ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์ค€๋น„๋œ ์„œ๋ฅ˜์™€ ๋ฐ˜์„ฑ์˜ ์ง„์ •์„ฑ์ด ๊ด€๊ฑด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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