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hey guys this is Celia and welcome back to my channel today I wanted to talk to you

guys about the process of getting an f6 visa in Korea the f6 visa is the Korean

marriage visa so if you're married to a Korean man or you're married to a Korean

woman this is the visa that you would be under after you get married it's not an

automatic thing you have to apply for it and the process can be a little bit

daunting because there's so many documents that you need to get well that

your husband or wife they have to get but as long as you stay organized it's

not that difficult I know when I first looked at the process I was a little bit

overwhelmed but I just kind of made a list and we just went through the

documents and tried to get them and so hopefully this guide will help you stay

organized and kind of make you feel less stressed out about applying for the visa

so let's get started how to get an f6 visa in Korea okay so I have my little

notebook here where I wrote some stuff that I wanted to tell you guys because

the list of documents is actually quite long but the first thing that I would

say that you have to do is just call immigration if you're in Korea just call

immigration first they you can ask them to send you an updated list with all the

requirements and they will email it to you whether you call in Korean or in

English I just I basically said I need a list of requirements and they emailed me

not only the list of the requirements but also they emailed all the forms that

I needed to fill out like the application form and a details form that

was all emailed to me but the list of requirements is in Korean only so your

husband is going to have your husband or your wife is going to have to basically

be the one to read that stuff it is in Korean if you if you don't speak Korean

then your Korean husband or Korean wife is going to have

to be the one to kind of take the lead this this video specifically is probably

more appropriate for Americans or Australians or Europeans the

requirements form has a very long requirements list those requirements

change if you're from a southeastern Asian country there's like a health

check that you need and it's a little bit more complicated if you're not an

American or you're not a European person so this guide is probably not going to

apply very well if you're if you're a Vietnamese woman marrying a Korean man

or if you're Thai and you're marrying a Korean woman just because the the guide

has extra things that you have to do if you're from those countries and I we

skipped those parts because they don't apply to us so I don't actually know

what those requirements are in detail so I can't really give any guidance about

that but I'm sure there's other YouTube videos that cover those kinds of

marriages and changing your visa for those countries so after you get the the

list of requirements kind of figure out how long you think it's gonna take you

to get all these documents and then make an appointment right away you have to

have at least in the Seoul immigration office you have to have an appointment

in order to be seen by by an officer and if you are like me and your visa and

your previous visa expires during the February March time period it's going to

be almost impossible to get an appointment during that time because

immigration is so busy during that time there's no appointment slots open and

they won't see you without an appointment unless your visa expires the

same day and then they might see you I wouldn't really I wouldn't really try

that just time it my visa didn't expire my new visa didn't expire

for about a month and we made the appointment about a month and a half in

advance just because I heard that it could take more than a month to process

and also I wanted to avoid the rush at the end of February and beginning of

March so make an appointment if you're going to change your visa immigration

will not see you unless you have an appointment so things that you need to

prepare are the form spouse that you need to prepare is there's a hundred and

thirty thousand won fee that you have to pay for the visa you need to bring your

passport you also need your ARC and you need the filled out application

which is in the little packet that immigration will send you when you call

them and ask them for the requirement the application is is in there you're

also going to need that's basically all you need for you and the rest of the

stuff is really things that your spouse is going to have to get and it includes things like

the basic certificate their family registry there's also a person

person that put like a personal ID certificate which is basically like your

husband or your wife they they certify that you are who you say you are and

it's basically like a form that is part of the packet and they just have to fill

it out and and sign it you also need your marriage certificate

and all of those things can be printed out online I know that when I saw other

guides like they talked about going to like the gu office and getting these

documents but if you have access to a printer you can get all of these all of

these documents online on the website you can just print them out and that's

what we did we just got those online those were actually quite easy to get

there's also an invitation form that you need to fill out and the invitation form

is just part of the the documents that they send

you and it's in Korean and your your spouse is gonna have to fill that out

but the document is basically the same as the form that you fill out in English

which is kind of weird it's basically one that your your spouse fills out in

Korean and the personal details form as well which is about you which is

basically the information form so you have like three application forms you

have to fill out and that's part of the document and then you need the family

registry you need the basic certificate for your spouse and you need the

personal ID certificate for your spouse and the marriage certificate as well and

again you should definitely call immigration to make sure that they send

you an updated list because this could change it has changed in the past so

make sure that you have the most updated list then the next part is a little bit

more complicated and more difficult to get and this may take like a week or two

to secure depending on what the time of the year that it is and this stuff is

just for your spouse but it's only four years these are tax documents basically

and it's only for your spouse if your spouse makes enough money to support you

the way that it works the application form the requirements list will have a

like an income threshold that your spouse or you as a as a couple need to

match in order for the visa to be approved because basically what happens

when you have an f6 visa especially if you go from e2 to an f6 you go from your

employer owning you to your spouse owning you so your spouse or your

husband in my case owns you now and so they have to show that they can provide

you with shelter that they can provide you with the ability to live in Korea

and so they have to show that they make enough money the threshold is not very

high so it's not hard to meet and of course you can use

your own income so if you work if you are a teacher or whatever you can also

use your income to meet the threshold if your husband's income is not enough or

if your husband is not it's not working right now it is a student that's fine so

but you will also need to get these tax documents for for yourself if you are

going to apply it with your with your income as well as well as your spouse's

we only apply I do work um cuz I'm taking a break but I was working and I

did have an income but my husband's income was enough to meet the threshold

so we didn't bother getting additional documents for me because it just didn't

feel necessary so there's four different documents that your spouse need have to

get and they are tax related documents but also official documents from his or

her company that verify that they're working there and that they are making

the amount of money that they're making now the the documents are all in Korean

and I don't really know how to translate these so I'm just gonna write them at

the bottom after I edit the video I'm gonna write them at the bottom so you

can see the names in Korean but some of them requires some time for the employer

to give that but some of them can be applied for through the tax office

online so you don't you can just put it off as well so we applied in February

and this is around the time when Korean taxes are being done here in Korea so we

didn't have one of the documents was not out yet like like my husband's company

they they apply for for the his taxes they they file his taxes

then there's a document that they get back from the tax office that is

supposed to be like it's it's like stamped everything in Korea is stamped

with a special stamp to make it official so here's this document was not back yet

because they had just submitted it so he we couldn't we couldn't submit that

document because we didn't have it and there was no way to get it so we got the

document from the previous year we thought that would be enough because the

the salary was the same for the previous year but when we got to our appointment

the the woman the officer said that we couldn't use that we needed the most

recent year so she gave us the name of another document that my husband needed

to ask for at his job and it's a replacement document for the long from

the tax office and this document shows like the payments every month for last

year and it stamped with the done with the company seal I guess I don't know

the name of the document but just in case that you're applying at the

beginning of the year when you don't have these documents there is an extra

document they're gonna ask for and the previous year's document is not going to

be enough so make sure you call immigration if you have if you we didn't

call because I I thought it'd be fine I'm assumed which is a mistake if you

are in the same situation that I would recommend you call immigration

ask them what document you need instead of the official tax office document

because you won't have that one and they'll probably tell you and you won't

have to waste time like we did you also need your lease where you live we need a

copy of your lease you need photos together I I've made like I just made

like a like a word document and then copy and paste the pictures into like

four pages so it was about 30 pictures and I tried to show like from the

beginning when we first started dating all the way up until now I also put

pictures of my parents-in-law

of my husband with my family I don't know it was a bit weird sharing like

Saffy's and like family pictures with like the government or some random

immigration office officer but yeah you need pictures of you guys together using

take pictures of your residence um it's it's it's put at the end of so it seems

like it might not be a requirement but you you want to make sure that your

application gets approved I wanted to make sure that my application got

approved so I put pictures of our house as well and if you remember from my

previous video if you're an American you need an affidavit of eligibility to

marry from the from the embassy the US Embassy and if if you got that you need

a copy of that to apply for the visa as well so even though you did get married

and you're showing that you have the marriage certificate you need a copy of

the eligibility to marry certificate as well when you apply for your when you

apply for your f6 visa you also need to show that you can communicate with each

other and if you've been living in Korea for a few years you can write on the

form you know been living here with Bubba blah I will speak in English but

what she said and but what I did what I did was I took screen caps of our

of our conversations on Kakao and I printed them and I tried to show screen

caps from like years before when we first heard of dating and screening cups

from now as well to show that we speak in English but she also she looked at

that and but she also said she spoke to me in Korean and asked me if I

understood what she was saying and I said yes she's like you've been living

here for four years can you understand this yeah basically ask me a few

questions and like waited for me to answer and I answered her so she wrote

on the paper as well that I I could understand what she was saying so

there's no like test or anything as long as you you can communicate if you

understand basic Korean it's fine but I also had like

conversations between the two of us maybe she thought it'd be easier to

approve the application if I just spoke some Korean as opposed to having to

breathe through our conversations yeah so we so on that day we went to our

appointment I was actually really late I underestimated how far the immigration

office was from from my from my job and I was actually late but the hassle was

there first and yeah so we just gave her everything and she just went through it

and then she talked to us about the document that we needed from from

dazzles work because of the the tax document that we need in so she gave me

a receipt told me when I could come get my air sea and ask my husband to bring

that document in so he had to go there another day and he has to go there

another day to turn in that document it was like the week after he went and

turned in the document and then the week after that I I got a text message saying

that the visa have been approved and that I could I could pick it up around

March 7th so it took about two weeks to get the approval and then another week

and a half-ish for to be printed so it was pretty straightforward but I have

heard that it can take up to six months for the visa process to go through I

don't know why it takes so long and I got a year on the visa some people I've

heard some people get longer but usually people get a year so you have to go back

and renew it every year which is kind of a pain in the butt but yeah so that's

how you get an f6 visa um it's a lot of documents especially I think is

especially overwhelming because it's all in Korean if you can speak Korean well

you might be able to not be as stressed out as I was but once you make a list

and you talk with them tackle them one by one it's it's not that big of a deal

big of a deal just keep yourself organized

and check off the stuff you found and I have the document that I was sent from

from the immigration office and that's from January of this year so if you want

to send me a message or a comment or just the end me on Instagram or tumblr

and I can send you the copy that I have with all the documentation but again I

would just recommend you call immigration and ask them to sent you the

most updated one thank you for watching I hope that was helpful if you have any

questions if something was not clear or if you need additional help you can

message me or comment down below and I'll try to respond as best as I can and

don't get overwhelmed don't be stressed and good luck bye

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