All about ARC (Alien Registration Card)

All about ARC(Alien Registration Card)

Don’t forget to register ARC if you are thinking of staying over 90 days in Korea

 

Are you planning to come to Korea for studying? Congratulations, first!

But here’s one thing you have to remember if you decided to come.

It’s like a Korean VISA, so you need to be aware of this ARC system for your legal staying here.

Stay14 has organized important information about ARC system, so stay tuned!

 

 

What is ARC?

 

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ARC is an abbreviation of ‘Alien Registration Card’ and it is an ID you should register if you are planning to stay in Korea over 90 days.

If you don’t register even though you stay in Korea over 90 days, you will be serving a jail up to one year or have to face up 10 million won in fines, and plus, you will be evicted from South Korea.

Therefore, you have to register ARC within 90 days of arrival.

You are also allowed to go to hospitals only when you have ARC.

ARC basically controls everything you can do here, so make sure you don’t forget to register ARC right after you arrived in Korea.

 

 

Required documents

 

1. Passport
2. Photograph (3.5x4.5cm) – preferably a passport picture, the photograph must be taken within last 6 months
3. Certificate of enrollment (from your university in Korea)
4. Application form filled with your information

 

 

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Usually students from international countries get two kinds of VISA: D-2 or D-4.

Whichever you got, the required documents are all the same, and the four documents mentioned above are what you need to register ARC.

To get the application form, you need to visit the website of the place where it handles out ARC and you can download the application form here below:

https://easylaw.go.kr/CSP/CnpClsMain.laf?csmSeq=508&ccfNo=2&cciNo=3&cnpClsNo=1

 

 

Where to register ARC

 

1. Immigration Office
2. Office of international affairs at your university (not always)

 

You originally have to go to ‘Immigration Office(출입국관리사무소/출장소)’ and register ARC.

However, there are some universities that help you register ARC, so ask your university’s OIA first if you can some help about it.

After you asked your university, you can decide to go to Immigration Office or not.

Plus, don’t forget to bring 30,000won in cash! You also need to pay for application fee and it costs 30,000won.

Immigration Offices are spread throughout Seoul (or other cities), so you can just type ‘출입국관리사무소’ or ‘출장소’ on Kakaomap, Navermap or Googlemap and go to the closest one from where you are.

It usually takes 2~3 days to finish registering and give you the actual ID card.

 

 

Other information

 

If you look at the information that requires you to fill in, you need to fill out information about where you stay in Korea.

Other than that, you need to register again every time your staying is changed.

That means where you live during your staying in Korea is very important information to Korean government.

Therefore, you might need to handle out some housing documents while you are here.

In this case, stay14 is always willing to help you dealing out housing documents of you.

If you found your accommodation through stay14 and want to ask for a help about housing documents, we can provide every document you need and you can register ARC faster.

Don’t forget stay14 guarantees you helpful services even after you moved in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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