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Parents or family of an F-6 marriage migrant, coming to help with a child. Almost every document describes the child - and a sibling may come only if the parents cannot.
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C-4-5 sits in the short-term employment class, so it asks you to prove the work is real. That means a Media Rating Board recommendation your promoter has to obtain.
C-3-3 is not the visa for getting treatment in Korea. It is the visa for treatment arranged through a registered medical tourism agency - and without one, you are a C-3-1 applicant.
If your spouse holds E-7-4R or F-2-R, the family route is a C-3-1 and the stay is ninety days - not the long stay an E-7 holder’s family gets on F-3.
The only route of the twelve asking the sponsor for a criminal record certificate and a credit report, and the only one that warns an interview may follow.
F-3 and the C-3-1 dependent list differ by two items: a TB test and a return flight. A move proves you are healthy to stay; a visit proves you are leaving.
No embassy verification, no language test, no character certificates. Your Korean enrolment certificate and semester mark sheet replace the lot - and that tells you what is being assessed.
Embassy verification, the one-year provisional certificate rule and four designated hospitals set the timeline for a D-2. Everything else is a matter of weeks.
Training, events, amateur sport, religious ceremonies, research, general medical treatment. The C-3-1 accepts almost any purpose, so the purpose evidence is everything.
The C-3-4 list differs from short-term general by a single item: business activity materials. That makes the purpose evidence, not the money, the thing that decides it.
Visiting a relative in Korea is a C-3-9, but not the tourist C-3-9. Half the file belongs to your relative, and immediate family are excused their own bank documents.
On a C-3-9 tourist application nobody in Korea vouches for you, so every document has to answer one question: will you come back? What the list needs, and why.
Five Viber groups and you still missed the notice that mattered. Why migrant communities in Korea fragment, how to run one that works, and the legal lines an organiser must not cross.
Most Korean visa applications from Nepal fail on the shape of a document, not on eligibility. Here is what each of the twelve routes requires, why, and the order to collect it in.
Most arrival guides list what you need. This one lists the order. Do these steps out of sequence and you will be sent back to an office you already visited.
Kathmandu rent is negotiated in person and rarely listed accurately online. Here is what each budget band buys, where, and what to check before you hand over a deposit.
The Employment Permit System is the largest legal route from Nepal to Korea. It is also the route with the most misinformation around it. This is the official sequence.
Foreign residents staying six months or longer must join Korea’s National Health Insurance. Here is how enrolment works, what it costs monthly, and what it actually covers.
Korea has a rental system that exists almost nowhere else. Understanding it is the difference between a good deal and losing your entire deposit.
Fees on a Korea-Nepal remittance are small. The exchange rate margin is not. Here is how to compare the two properly and what the legal limits are.
