Arrival,Departure Re-entry Exemption for Foreigners

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To the Members of Filipino Association in Gimhae Korea:

Plase refer to the attached Advisory from the Immigration Service and announcement below regarding the exemption from securing a re-entry permit for foreigners.

                                                    ANNOUNCEMENT

The Philippine Embassy was informed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea on the notice by Korea Immigration Service, Ministry of Justice regarding exemption from Re-entry permit  for foreigners upon arrival and departure from the Republic of Korea.

According to the Korea Immigration Service, the Re-entry permit System has been revised to provide convenience for foreign residents in Korea.

Filipino residents of Korea  with valid passports and alien registration cards are free to enter and depart from Korea without a Re-entry permit for one year within their permitted period of stay on visa.   If the period of stay is less than one year, the exemption is valid for the duration of the period of stay.  In the case of permanent residents(F-5), their exemption  will remain valid for two years after their departure time.

The exemption on Re-entry permit takes effect on Wednesday,01 December 2010.

Atty. Felicitas Q. Bay

Labor Attache

Philippine Overseas Labor Office

Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines

5-1,Itaewon 2-dong, Yongsan-Ku, Seoul,140-857 Korea

Tel:82-2-3785-3634/5 Fax:82-2-3785-3624

labor@philembassy-seoul.com

www.philembassy-seoul,com.

Please be advised that there is no ban on OFWS deployment to Korea, the deployment of EPS workers scheduled to enter Korea on November 30,2010 has been deferred for one week pending assessment of the situation in South Korea.  The POEA has rescheduled the deployment of the November 30 batch to December 7,2010.

For the general information.  Thank you.