Registry entry

South Korea Visa Application

Application for a South Korean entry visa (사증, sa-jeung), filed by a foreign national at a Korean diplomatic mission (embassy or consulate-general) abroad, through the Ministry of Justice's gazetted Visa Application Form used uniformly across every visa category and mission worldwide. Covers personal details, passport information, contact information, marital/family details, education, employment, details of the intended visit (purpose, dates, prior travel history), invitation details, funding details, and the applicant's declaration. Does not model the separate Confirmation of Visa Issuance process (사증발급인정신청서, Attached Form No. 21 — filed by a sponsor/inviter already in Korea, a different form and process), the HiKorea e-Application portal's authenticated wizard (hikorea.go.kr, which requires an ARC/account login to view), or the purpose-specific supporting-document list in Enforcement Rule Annex 5 (which varies across roughly 30 visa purpose categories). It does not submit the application; the live visa.go.kr source and the responsible diplomatic mission are always authoritative (see VERIFICATION.md).

Registry entry

kr/moj/visa-application

Jurisdiction
South Korea · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea — Korea Immigration Service

Authoritative source 출입국관리법 시행규칙 별지 제17호서식 (개정 2022. 2. 7.) — Enforcement Rule of the Immigration Act, Attached Form No. 17, Visa Application Form (amended 2022-02-07), bilingual Korean/English, hosted directly by the Korea Visa Portal (visa.go.kr) and mirrored byte-for-byte at Korean diplomatic missions worldwide (e.g. overseas.mofa.go.kr embassy sites).

Machine access

Schema document
registry/kr/moj/visa-application/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/kr/moj/visa-application/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

98 fields across 12 steps, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Personal Details

  • familyName string required

    Family Name (as shown in passport)

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • givenNames string required

    Given Names (as shown in passport)

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • chineseCharacterName string optional

    Only applicable to applicants whose legal name has a Chinese-character (Hanja/Kanji) rendering.

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • sex enum required

    Sex

    enum: male | femaleclassification: pii
  • dateOfBirth date required

    Date of Birth

    classification: pii
  • nationality string required

    Nationality

    length: 0–100
  • countryOfBirth string required

    Country of Birth

    length: 0–100
  • nationalIdentityNumber string optional

    The applicant's national identity number in their country of nationality, where one exists.

    length: 0–50classification: pii
  • hasUsedOtherNames boolean required

    Has the applicant ever used any other names to enter or depart Korea?

  • otherNameFamilyName string optional

    Other family name previously used

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • otherNameGivenName string optional

    Other given name previously used

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • isDualNational boolean required

    Is the applicant a citizen of more than one country?

  • dualNationalityCountries string optional

    Other countries of nationality

    length: 0–200

Details of Visa Application

  • periodOfStay enum required

    Period of Stay (Long/Short-term)

    enum: long_term_over_90_days | short_term_90_days_or_less
  • statusOfStay string required

    The specific Korean visa/status-of-stay category code (e.g. C-3, D-2, E-7) the applicant is applying for. The form provides a blank field rather than a fixed checkbox list here; the 'FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY' block that follows on the same form (basic details, reception, approval) is completed by the diplomatic mission, not the applicant, and is out of scope for this schema.

    length: 0–20

Passport Information

  • passportType enum required

    Passport Type

    enum: diplomatic | official | regular | other
  • passportTypeOtherDetail string optional

    Passport type detail, if 'Other'

    length: 0–100
  • passportNumber string required

    Passport No.

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • passportIssuingCountry string required

    Country of Passport

    length: 0–100
  • passportPlaceOfIssue string required

    Place of Issue

    length: 0–100
  • passportIssueDate date required

    Date of Issue

  • passportExpiryDate date required

    Date of Expiry

  • hasOtherValidPassport boolean required

    Does the applicant have any other valid passports?

  • otherPassportType enum optional

    Other passport's type

    enum: diplomatic | official | regular | other
  • otherPassportNumber string optional

    Other passport's Passport No.

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • otherPassportIssuingCountry string optional

    Other passport's Country of Passport

    length: 0–100
  • otherPassportExpiryDate date optional

    Other passport's Date of Expiry

Contact Information

  • homeCountryAddress string required

    Home Country Address of the applicant

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • currentResidentialAddress string optional

    Current Residential Address (if different from home country address)

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • cellPhoneNumber string optional

    Cell Phone No.

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • telephoneNumber string optional

    Telephone No.

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • emailAddress string required

    E-mail

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • emergencyContactFullName string required

    Emergency Contact — Full Name in English

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • emergencyContactCountryOfResidence string required

    Emergency Contact — Country of Residence

    length: 0–100
  • emergencyContactPhoneNumber string required

    Emergency Contact — Telephone No.

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • emergencyContactRelationship string required

    Emergency Contact — Relationship to the applicant

    length: 0–100

Marital Status and Family Details

  • maritalStatus enum required

    Current Marital Status

    enum: married | divorced | single
  • spouseFamilyName string optional

    Spouse — Family Name (in English)

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • spouseGivenNames string optional

    Spouse — Given Names (in English)

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • spouseDateOfBirth date optional

    Spouse — Date of Birth

    classification: pii
  • spouseNationality string optional

    Spouse — Nationality

    length: 0–100
  • spouseResidentialAddress string optional

    Spouse — Residential Address

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • spouseContactNumber string optional

    Spouse — Contact No.

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • hasChildren boolean required

    Does the applicant have children?

  • numberOfChildren integer optional

    Number of children

    range: 1–∞

Education

  • highestEducationLevel enum required

    Highest degree or level of education completed

    enum: masters_or_doctoral | bachelors | high_school | other
  • highestEducationLevelOtherDetail string optional

    Education level detail, if 'Other'

    length: 0–100
  • schoolName string required

    Name of School

    length: 0–200
  • schoolLocation string required

    Location of School (city/province/country)

    length: 0–200

Employment

  • currentOccupation enum required

    Current personal circumstances

    enum: 8 values
  • currentOccupationOtherDetail string optional

    Occupation detail, if 'Other'

    length: 0–100
  • employerOrInstitutionName string optional

    Required for occupations with an associated employer, business, or school (entrepreneur, self-employed, employed, civil servant, student); not applicable to retired/unemployed applicants.

    length: 0–200
  • positionOrCourse string optional

    Position/Course

    length: 0–200
  • employerOrInstitutionAddress string optional

    Address of Company/Institute/School

    length: 0–300
  • employerOrInstitutionPhoneNumber string optional

    Telephone No.

    length: 0–30

Details of Visit

  • purposeOfVisit enum required

    Purpose of Visit to Korea

    enum: 11 values
  • purposeOfVisitOtherDetail string optional

    Purpose of visit detail, if 'Other'

    length: 0–200
  • intendedPeriodOfStay string required

    Intended Period of Stay

    length: 0–50
  • intendedDateOfEntry date required

    Intended Date of Entry

  • addressInKorea string required

    Address in Korea (including hotels)

    length: 0–300
  • contactNumberInKorea string optional

    Contact No. in Korea

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • hasVisitedKoreaLast5Years boolean required

    Has the applicant travelled to Korea in the last 5 years?

  • mostRecentKoreaVisitPurpose string optional

    The source form provides a repeating table for every prior visit; GovSchema v0.3 fields are flat (no array/repeating-group model yet, see spec/v0.3/SPEC.md §6.1), so this document models only the applicant's most recent prior visit. A future MINOR version could add a repeating-group model once the spec supports it (GSP-0009, proposed).

    length: 0–200
  • mostRecentKoreaVisitStartDate date optional

    Most recent visit — Period of Stay start date

  • mostRecentKoreaVisitEndDate date optional

    Most recent visit — Period of Stay end date

  • hasTravelledOtherCountriesLast5Years boolean required

    Has the applicant travelled outside their country of residence, excluding Korea, in the last 5 years?

  • mostRecentOtherCountryVisited string optional

    The source form provides a repeating table for every prior trip; this document models only the most recent one, for the same flat-fields reason as mostRecentKoreaVisitPurpose.

    length: 0–100
  • mostRecentOtherCountryVisitPurpose string optional

    Most recent other trip — Purpose of Visit

    length: 0–200
  • mostRecentOtherCountryVisitStartDate date optional

    Most recent other trip — Period of Stay start date

  • mostRecentOtherCountryVisitEndDate date optional

    Most recent other trip — Period of Stay end date

  • hasFamilyMembersInKorea boolean required

    Scope of family members per the source form: spouse, children, parents, siblings.

  • familyMemberInKoreaFullName string optional

    The source form provides a repeating table for multiple family members; this document models only one, for the same flat-fields reason as mostRecentKoreaVisitPurpose.

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • familyMemberInKoreaDateOfBirth date optional

    Family member in Korea — Date of Birth

    classification: pii
  • familyMemberInKoreaNationality string optional

    Family member in Korea — Nationality

    length: 0–100
  • familyMemberInKoreaRelationship string optional

    Family member in Korea — Relationship to the applicant

    length: 0–50
  • isTravellingWithFamilyMembers boolean required

    Scope of family members per the source form: spouse, children, parents, siblings.

  • accompanyingFamilyMemberFullName string optional

    The source form provides a repeating table for multiple family members; this document models only one, for the same flat-fields reason as mostRecentKoreaVisitPurpose.

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • accompanyingFamilyMemberDateOfBirth date optional

    Accompanying family member — Date of Birth

    classification: pii
  • accompanyingFamilyMemberNationality string optional

    Accompanying family member — Nationality

    length: 0–100
  • accompanyingFamilyMemberRelationship string optional

    Accompanying family member — Relationship to the applicant

    length: 0–50

Details of Invitation

  • hasInvitingPersonOrOrganization boolean required

    Is there anyone inviting the applicant for the visa?

  • invitingPersonOrOrganizationName string optional

    Name of inviting person/organization (Korean, foreign resident in Korea, company, or institute)

    length: 0–200
  • invitingPersonDateOfBirthOrBusinessRegistrationNo string optional

    A single combined field on the source form: an individual inviter's date of birth, or an organization inviter's business registration number.

    length: 0–50
  • invitingPersonRelationship string optional

    Relationship to the applicant

    length: 0–100
  • invitingPersonAddress string optional

    Address of inviting person/organization

    length: 0–300
  • invitingPersonPhoneNumber string optional

    Phone No. of inviting person/organization

    length: 0–30

Funding Details

  • estimatedTravelCostsUsd number required

    Estimated travel costs (in US dollars)

    range: 0–∞
  • travelExpensesPayerName string required

    Name of Person/Organization (Company) paying travel-related expenses

    length: 0–200
  • travelExpensesPayerRelationship string required

    Payer's relationship to the applicant

    length: 0–100
  • travelExpensesSupportType string required

    Type of Support

    length: 0–200
  • travelExpensesPayerContactNumber string optional

    Payer's Contact No.

    length: 0–30

Assistance with this Form

  • receivedAssistanceCompletingForm boolean required

    Did the applicant receive assistance in completing this form?

  • formAssistantFullName string optional

    Assisting person — Full Name

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • formAssistantDateOfBirth date optional

    Assisting person — Date of Birth

    classification: pii
  • formAssistantPhoneNumber string optional

    Assisting person — Telephone No.

    length: 0–30classification: pii
  • formAssistantRelationship string optional

    Assisting person — Relationship to the applicant

    length: 0–100

Declaration

  • declarationAgreed boolean required

    A person under 17 requires the signature of a parent or legal guardian instead of the applicant's own signature (out of scope here, a physical-signature detail, not a data field).

  • declarationDate date required

    Date of Application

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

  • status: draft
  • verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
  • verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-05

The document was derived from a directly-read primary source: the full text of the Ministry of Justice's gazetted, bilingual Visa Application Form, retrieved as a static PDF with a real text layer. It remains draft, not verified, pending an independent second reviewer's field-by-field pass.

Why this document exists

South Korea's Visa vertical was flagged as a strong, unauthenticated candidate during GOV-1289's new-jurisdiction research cycle (2026-07-05), which opened South Korea as the registry's 13th jurisdiction and filed four follow-up child issues for its remaining verticals. GOV-1291 (DMV) and GOV-1294 (National ID) were authored first; this document (GOV-1292) closes Visa, leaving only GOV-1293 (Taxes) open for South Korea. Picked up under GOV-1321's standing research routine.

Source examined

  • Document (id, version): kr/moj/visa-application / 1.0.0
  • Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
  • Authority: Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea — Korea Immigration Service
  • Primary source URL: https://www.visa.go.kr/downfile/VisaapplicationForm_EN.pdf
  • Official form id: 출입국관리법 시행규칙 별지 제17호서식 (Enforcement Rule of the Immigration Act, Attached Form No. 17), revision dated 2022-02-07 (표시: <개정 2022. 2. 7.>)
  • Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-05
  • Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

Access constraint and how it was worked around

Unlike kr/mofa/passport-application-first-adult and kr/koroad/driving-licence-application (both served through JS canvas/blob-image viewers with no static text layer), this form is hosted as a plain, directly downloadable PDF at a stable URL (visa.go.kr/downfile/VisaapplicationForm_EN.pdf), retrieved with a single curl request and read with a genuine text layer — no browser automation, no CAPTCHA, no login. This is the cleanest source of the four South Korean documents authored to date. The live HiKorea e-Application portal (hikorea.go.kr), which digitises the same underlying process, was not used as a source: reaching its data-entry wizard requires an ARC/account login (the same login-gated-portal class already recorded for de/auswaertiges-amt/national-visa-application and nz/dia/realme-verified-identity), so this document models the standalone form's own field set instead, per source-of-truth fidelity.

What was confirmed directly (verbatim, from the form's own text)

All five pages of the form were read in full (Korean and English text both present verbatim, side by side). Every field's sourceRef cites the specific numbered item (e.g. Item 3.7(a)) it was transcribed from:

  • Page 1 — Personal Details / Details of Visa Application: all 9 items under section 1 (name, sex, DOB, nationality, country of birth, national ID number, prior-other-names gate, dual-nationality gate), and section 2's long/short-term period-of-stay checkboxes. The "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" block (기본사항/접수사항/허가사항/결재) that follows on the same page was read and confirmed to be diplomatic-mission-only content — explicitly excluded from fields, consistent with this registry's convention of modelling only applicant-supplied data.
  • Page 2 — Passport Information / Contact Information / Marital Status and Family Details / Education: all passport-type checkboxes and the "other valid passport" conditional block (3.7); home/current address split (4.1/4.2); the emergency-contact sub-block (4.5 a–d); marital-status checkboxes and the spouse conditional block (5.2 a–f); children gate (5.3); and the four education-level checkboxes (6.1) plus school name/location (6.2/6.3).
  • Page 3 — Employment / Details of Visit: the eight occupation checkboxes (7.1) and the employment-details sub-block (7.2 a–d); the eleven purpose-of-visit checkboxes (8.1); intended period/date of entry/address in Korea/contact number (8.2–8.5); and the two 5-year travel-history gates (8.6 Korea, 8.7 other countries) with their repeating-row tables.
  • Page 4 — Details of Visit (cont'd) / Details of Invitation / Funding Details / Assistance with this Form: the two family-in-Korea/ travelling-with-family gates (8.8/8.9) with their repeating-row tables and the "Scope of family members" footnote (spouse, children, parents, siblings) verbatim; the invitation-details conditional block (9.1 a–e); the funding-details block (10.1/10.2 a–d); and the form-assistance conditional block (11.1).
  • Page 5 — Notice / Declaration / Procedure: all 7 numbered notices (extra space, passport-change notification duty, no-guaranteed-entry caveat, C-visa no-status-change rule citing Enforcement Rule Article 9(1), false-information penalty, missing-document delay/denial, and the visa-portal result-checking procedure); the full declaration paragraph and its Immigration Act compliance clause; the under-17 parent/guardian signature note; and the 5-stage processing flow diagram (Application → Reception → Review → Approval → Issuance, all four post-application stages performed by the Diplomatic Mission).

What is out of scope for v1.0.0

  • Confirmation of Visa Issuance (사증발급인정신청서, Attached Form No. 21): a related but structurally different process filed by a sponsor/inviter already resident in Korea (rather than the applicant abroad), on its own gazetted form — not modelled here, a candidate for a future sibling document.
  • HiKorea e-Application portal (hikorea.go.kr): its authenticated wizard was not reached (ARC/account login required); this document models the standalone paper form only.
  • Purpose-specific supporting-document list (Enforcement Rule Article 76(1) and Annex 5): the form's own "ATTACHMENT" line references this annex, which enumerates different required documents per visa purpose category (roughly 30 categories); encoded here only as a single generic categorySpecificSupportingDocuments document requirement rather than itemised per category — itemising all ~30 would be its own large project.
  • Repeating rows beyond the first/most recent: four items on the form (8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9) provide a multi-row table for, respectively, prior Korea visits, prior other-country trips, family in Korea, and accompanying family. GovSchema v0.3's field model is flat with no array/repeating-group type yet (spec/v0.3/SPEC.md §6.1; GSP-0009 proposes one but is not yet adopted), so each is modelled as a single "most recent/first entry" field set — the same precedent in/mha/evisa-etourist already established for its previousVisaType/previousVisaPlaceOfIssue/previousVisaDateOfIssue fields. A future MINOR version could add full repeating-row support once the spec does.
  • statusOfStay (Item 2.2) as a closed enum: the form leaves this field a blank box rather than a checkbox list — it is the specific visa status/category code (e.g. C-3, D-2, E-7) determined by the applicant's purpose and eligibility, of which Korea has dozens. Modelled as free text rather than an enumerated list, since no single source consulted this cycle enumerates the full current code list authoritatively.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance this document to status: verified, a reviewer needs to independently re-fetch visa.go.kr/downfile/VisaapplicationForm_EN.pdf, re-check every sourceRef against it field by field, and confirm no newer form revision has superseded the 2022-02-07 edition. Record the outcome here before setting status: verified.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (~6 months), consistent with the other three South Korean documents authored this research cycle. Re-check the source, and confirm no newer form edition has been published, on or before that date and on any source.url change.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

  • 1.0.0 draft latest this page has verification record schema.json

Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea — Korea Immigration Service or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.