Registration Card (RC)

Overview

Introduction

Have you obtained your relevant visa: D-2-X (Student Visa)?

The ARC is more important than the visa in your passport.

Your ARC allows you to:

- Stay in Korea for more than 90 days
- Secure your visa status in Korea
- Allow multiple entries to Korea

Your Alien Registration Card (ARC) will be valid during your exchange period only. Even though your ARC expiration date may be longer than your final semester, we will cancel your visa when your classes end.

Regular Semester

- You will need to leave Korea within 2 weeks upon completing your period of study.

Regular Semester + Winter/Summer Session

- You will need to leave Korea within 2 weeks upon completion of the Intensive Korean Program if you have enrolled.
- This is late February, or late August.

You can also submit a petition to the Immigration Office online (http://www.hikorea.go.kr) to extend your stay a specific number of days when your final study period is over if you want to travel in Korea (or around Asia and leave from Korea) with proof of a one-way outbound airplane ticket, and the reason for needing more time. The Immigration Office will approve or deny the request.

You will need your ARC card for just about everything in Korea such as getting mobile phone services, opening bank accounts, etc. So it is extremely important to apply for this card as soon as possible. If you lose it, you must apply for a new one at the Immigration Office as soon as possible as well. Even you move housing, for example, from the dormitory to an apartment (or vice versa), you must also submit your address change to the Immigration within two weeks of moving.

Degree Students

- Your D-2 visa status expires when your program at HUFS officially finishes.
- The expiration date of your card is valid only if you are enrolled at an official program at HUFS.
- After your program finishes, HUFS will automatically cancel your visa and you have to leave Korea within two weeks.
- The expiration date of your ARC is NOT the last day you can leave Korea!!

Exchange & Visiting Students

Regular Semester

- You will need to leave Korea within 2 weeks after your study period ends.
- This is either late June/early July or late December/early January.

Regular Semester + Winter/Summer Session

- You will need to leave Korea within 2 weeks upon completion of the Intensive Korean Program if you have enrolled.
- This is late February/early March, or late August/early September.

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