1. Legal Basis
- Immigration Control Act โ Article 20 (Permission for Activities Beyond the Scope of Status of Stay) A foreigner who intends to engage in activities outside his/her authorized status of stay must obtain permission from the Minister of Justice.
- Enforcement Decree โ Article 25 The Minister may limit the type, duration, place, or hours of permitted employment.
- MOJ Refugee Affairs Guidelines (Sept. 2022) Refugee applicants (G-1-5) may be allowed to work after 6 months from the date of application if it is deemed necessary for livelihood.
2. Eligibility for G-1 Holders
| Subcategory | Description | Work Permission Eligibility |
|---|---|---|
| G-1-5 | Refugee applicant | Allowed after 6 months from filing the refugee claim |
| G-1-6 | Humanitarian stay (granted for protection reasons) | Possible upon individual review (especially for livelihood hardship) |
| G-1-10 | Medical treatment or patient guardian | Not allowed in principle, but may be exceptionally permitted |
| Others (G-1-1~9) | Litigation, protection, investigation, etc. | Generally not allowed, unless humanitarian reasons apply |
3. Application Procedure
(1) Where to Apply
- Immigration Office having jurisdiction over your residence
- Online application (HiKorea): NOT available for G-1 holders
- You must visit in person (or through a licensed administrative agent)
(2) Who May Apply
- The G-1 visa holder or an administrative attorney (ํ์ ์ฌ) with a power of attorney
(3) Fee
- 130,000 KRW (Government Revenue Stamp)
(4) Processing Time
- Normally 2โ3 weeks
4. Required Documents
| No. | Document | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Application Form for Permission to Engage in Activities Outside of Status | Form No. 34 (available at the Immigration Office) |
| 2 | Passport & Alien Registration Card | Originals + copies |
| 3 | Employment Contract | Must show job title, wage, working hours, and duration |
| 4 | Business Registration Certificate | From the employer |
| 5 | Copy of Refugee Application Receipt | For G-1-5 holders |
| 6 | Statement of Financial Hardship | Explain reason for needing to work (livelihood, family, etc.) |
| 7 | Statement of Employment Need (from employer) | Explain necessity of hiring the applicant |
| 8 | 1 Passport Photo (3.5ร4.5cm) | Recent, color |
| 9 | Other Supporting Docs | Health certificate, proof of residence, etc., if requested |
5. Screening Criteria (Used by Immigration Officers)
- Ongoing refugee review (not withdrawn or rejected)
- More than 6 months elapsed since refugee application
- No prior immigration violations or illegal employment
- Type of work (prefer simple or manual labor)
- Employerโs legitimacy and compliance with labor laws
- Contract meets minimum wage and labor standards
6. Permission Details
- A separate authorization notice will be issued after approval.
- The allowed employer, workplace, and job category will be noted on the back of the Alien Registration Card.
- Validity: Up to 1 year, within your authorized stay period.
- Any change of workplace requires a new permission request.
7. Key Cautions When Preparing Documents
- Wage must meet or exceed the minimum wage in Korea.
- Working hours cannot exceed 40 hours/week.
- Employers cannot hire undocumented or unauthorized workers.
- You must report to immigration when changing jobs or ending the contract.
- The application must clearly state your visa type (e.g., G-1-5) and refugee case number.
8. Practical Tips from Administrative Experts
- When explaining hardship, write: โDue to ongoing refugee procedures and lack of financial support, I am unable to sustain my living without employment.โ
- Employers should attach their official seal or letterhead to the statement of employment.
- Prepare for possible document requests (e.g., workplace photos, payroll records).
1. G-1 ์๊ฒฉ ์ค ์ทจ์ ์ธ ํ๋ํ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅ ๋์
| ์ธ๋ถ ์๊ฒฉ | ์ค๋ช | ์ทจ์ ์ธ ํ๋ ํ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅ ์ฌ๋ถ |
|---|---|---|
| G-1-5 | ๋๋ฏผ์ ์ฒญ์ | ์ ์ฒญ์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ 6๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ (์ฌ์ฌ ์ค์ด์ด์ผ ํจ) |
| G-1-6 | ์ธ๋์ ์ฒด๋ฅ์ | ์ฌ์๋ณ ํ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅ (์ฅ๊ธฐ์ฒด๋ฅ์ ๋ฐ ์๊ณ๊ณค๋์ ์ค์ฌ) |
| G-1-10 | ์น๋ฃ ๋ฐ ๋ณดํธ์ | ์์น์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ๊ฐ (์์ธ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ผ๋ถ ํ์ฉ ๊ฐ๋ฅ) |
| ๊ทธ ์ธ(G-1-1~9) | ์ง๋ณ, ์์ก, ๋ณดํธ, ์ฌํ๋๊ธฐ ๋ฑ | ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๋ถ๊ฐ, ์ธ๋์ ํ์ ์ธ์ ์ ์์ธ ํ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅ |
2. ์ทจ์ ์ธ ํ๋ํ๊ฐ ์ ์ฒญ ์ ์ฐจ
(1) ์ ์ฒญ๊ธฐ๊ด
- ์ฒด๋ฅ์ง ๊ดํ ์ถ์ ๊ตญยท์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ ๋๋ ์ถ์ฅ์
- ์ ์๋ฏผ์(ํ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฌ์) ๋ถ๊ฐ โ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฐฝ๊ตฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์ ์
(2) ์ ์ฒญ์
- G-1 ์ฒด๋ฅ์ ๋ณธ์ธ ๋๋ ํ์ ์ฌ ๋๋ฆฌ์ธ
(3) ์์๋ฃ
- 13๋ง ์ (์์ ์ธ์ง) (์ถ์ ๊ตญ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น ์ 72์กฐ)
(4) ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ
- ํต์ 1~3์ฃผ, ํ์์ ๋ณด์ ์๊ตฌ ๊ฐ๋ฅ
3. ๊ตฌ๋น์๋ฅ
| ๊ตฌ๋ถ | ์ ์ถ์๋ฅ | ๋น๊ณ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ์ทจ์ ์ธํ๋ํ๊ฐ์ ์ฒญ์ (๋ณ์ง ์ 34ํธ ์์) | ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฒญ ๋น์น ๋๋ ๋ฒ๋ฌด๋ถ ์์ |
| 2 | ์ฌ๊ถ ๋ฐ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ ์๋ณธ | ์๋ณธ ํ์ธ ํ ๋ณต์ฌ ์ ์ถ |
| 3 | ๊ทผ๋ก๊ณ์ฝ์ ์ฌ๋ณธ | ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒ๋ช , ์๊ธ, ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๊ฐ, ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ช ์ ํ์ |
| 4 | ์ฌ์ ์๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ ์ฌ๋ณธ | ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒ์ ๊ฒ |
| 5 | ๋๋ฏผ์ ์ฒญ์ ์ ์์ฆ ์ฌ๋ณธ | (G-1-5์ ํํจ) |
| 6 | ์๊ณ๊ณค๋์ฌ์ ์ ๋๋ ์ฌ์ ์ | ์์ ์์ (์ํ์ ์ง ๊ณค๋ ์ฌ์ , ๊ฐ์กฑ์ฌํญ ๋ฑ ๊ธฐ์ฌ) |
| 7 | ๊ณ ์ฉ์ฌ์ ์ | ๊ณ ์ฉ์ฃผ๊ฐ ์์ฑ (๊ณ ์ฉํ์์ฑ, ๋์ฒด์ธ๋ ฅ ์ฌ๋ถ ๋ฑ ๊ธฐ์ฌ) |
| 8 | ์ฌ์ง 1๋งค | 3.5ร4.5cm |
| 9 | ๊ธฐํ | ๊ฑด๊ฐ์ง๋จ์, ์ฒด๋ฅ์งํ์ธ์ ๋ฑ ํ์์ ๋ณด์์์ฒญ ๊ฐ๋ฅ |
4. ํ๊ฐ ์ ๊ณ ๋ ค ๊ธฐ์ค (์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฒญ ๋ด๋ถ์ฌ์ฌ์์)
- ๋๋ฏผ์ฌ์ฌ ์งํ ์ค ์ฌ๋ถ
- ์ ์ฒญ์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ 6๊ฐ์ ์ด์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ฌ๋ถ
- ์ต๊ทผ ์๋ฐ์ด๋ ฅ(๋ถ๋ฒ์ทจ์ , ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์๋ฐ ๋ฑ)
- ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์ฅ์ยท์ง์ข ์ด ์ผ๋ฐ ๋จ์๋ ธ๋์ธ์ง ์ฌ๋ถ
- ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ ์ผ์๋ฆฌ ๋์ฒด ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ์ฌ๋ถ
- ๊ทผ๋ก๊ณ์ฝ์ ์ ์ ์ฑ (์ต์ ์๊ธ, ๊ทผ๋ก์๊ฐ ๋ฑ)
5. ํ๊ฐ ๋ด์ฉ ๋ฐ ์ ํจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ
- ํ๊ฐ ์ ํ๊ฐ์ ๊ต๋ถ โ โ์ฒด๋ฅ์๊ฒฉ ์ธ ํ๋ํ๊ฐ์โ ๋๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ ๋ท๋ฉด์ โํ๊ฐ ์ง์ข , ๊ธฐ๊ฐ, ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒโ ๋ช ์
- ํ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ : ์ต๋ 1๋ (์ฒด๋ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์ ๋ด)
- ๋ณ๊ฒฝ์ฌํญ(๊ทผ๋ฌด์ฒ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ ๋ฑ)์ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ์ ์ฒญ ํ์
6. ์๋ฅ ์์ฑ ์ ์ฃผ์์ฌํญ
- ๊ทผ๋ก๊ณ์ฝ์์ ์๊ธ์ด ์ต์ ์๊ธ ์ด์์ด์ด์ผ ํจ (๋ฏธ๋ฌ ์ ๋ถํ)
- ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๊ฐ ์ฃผ 40์๊ฐ ์ด๊ณผ ๋ถ๊ฐ, ์ด๊ณผ ์ ๋ถ๋ฒ์ทจ์ ๊ฐ์ฃผ
- ๊ณ ์ฉ์ฃผ๋ ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด๋ฅ์ ๊ณ ์ฉ๊ธ์ง ๊ท์ (์ถ์ ๊ตญ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ 18์กฐ ์ 1ํญ) ์ ์ฉ ๋์
- ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง ๋ณ๊ฒฝยท๊ณ์ฝ๋ง๋ฃ ์ ์ฆ์ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ์ฒญ ์ ๊ณ ์๋ฌด
- ์ ์ฒญ์์๋ ์ฒด๋ฅ์๊ฒฉ(์: G-1-5), ๋๋ฏผ์ ์ฒญ๋ฒํธ, ์ฌ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ด๋ช ๋ช ํํ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ ๊ฒ