The Republic of South Korea plans to resume the admission of foreign labor migrants on an E-9 work visa from the end of November 2021. Accordingly, citizens of Uzbekistan can also go to Korea to work through the prescribed procedures, the head of the press service of the Agency for External Labor Migration Ortikhodja Norov said at the AIMC briefing.
Due to a number of restrictions imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 the process of sending citizens of all labor-sending countries, including Uzbekistan, to the Republic of Korea was suspended.
Now, according to the Ministry of Employment and Labor of the Republic of Korea, starting from the end of November 2021, it is planned to resume the process of receiving labor migrants with E-9 work visas from all labor-sending countries, as well as Uzbekistan.
Ortikhodja Norov also clarified the question of who can travel to the Republic of Korea with an E-9 visa in the first place, and listed a number of conditions.
“Citizens, who have passed all the stages of the examination process to enter the Republic of Korea with a work visa, have an employment contract sent by the employer and are waiting to leave for work in the Republic of Korea, have to meet the following requirements:
1. they must be fully vaccinated with one of the vaccines Astrazeneca, Moderna, Pfizer recognized in the Republic of Korea at least 14 days before entering the Republic of Korea and provide the relevant certificate;
2. one week before arrival in the Republic of Korea and within 72 hours before flight time, they must take a PCR test in one of the laboratories recognized by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Republic of Uzbekistan (Korea No 1 Laboratory, SWISS LAB, De Factum Laboratories, INTERMED Innovation) and the test result must be negative,” Ortikhodja Norov said.
At the same time, labor migrants entering the Republic of Korea will also have to go through a 10-day quarantine period instead of 14 days.
It is reported that 50 Uzbeks, who worked in the Republic of Korea and returned to the country with employment contracts, have been scheduled to leave on November 25 this year.
