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Certificate of immigration

Those Eligible for Certification Issuance

Where to Apply / Required Documents

Scope of Certificate of Entry/Departure Record

The Certificate of Entry/Departure Record only proves entry/departure made after a certain amount of time since the entry/departure inspection as outlined in Immigration Act.
It does not prove any other facts, such as the place of stay, destination, purpose of the trip, etc.
If the certificate of entry and departure is issued to those whose record of departure and entry is not shown, the certificate will be labeled with the phrase “Record of departure or entry not found (May be due to illegal entry/departure, or mistakes made when filling out the embarkation / disembarkation card)”.

Those Eligible for Certificate of Entry/Departure Record

Certificate of entry/departure record is only granted to the following due to Personal Information Protection Act by Public Institutions.

Subjects themselves, their legal representative, or those assigned by the subjects.
- Even direct family members must be given power of attorney from the subjects in order to apply in their stead (except when subjects are dead or missing)
Spouse of the subject or ascendants or descendants
- Only if subjects themselves cannot express their intent because they are dead or missing.
- Or, if the application will benefit the subject, then it is deemed equivalent to those made when subjects are dead or missing (i.e. termination of mobile phone etc.)
- In the cases mentioned above, the person on behalf of the subject must submit appropriate support documentation. (i.e. billing statement of a mobile phone etc.)
※ The certification must only be used for the purpose stated.
- If billing statement of a mobile phone is submitted, the certification must be used only for “termination of service of the mobile phone”. Not for any other purposes.
Those that have employed the subjects (foreigners), or their representatives
- Only if the subjects departed for good.
- If their departure cannot be confirmed due to termination of the employment or subject’s whereabouts becoming unknown after they registered as a foreigner upon employment, then it is possible to apply for certification which proves departure or entry until that time..
Others that Ministry of Justice deems necessary to be certified for public interest.
- Only if the purpose of issuing is related with public interest, and the executive agencies, municipality, or public entities (limited to public entities under the Clause 2 of “Personal Information Protection Act by Public Institutions and the Clause 2 of its regulations) requests the applicant to submit the certification for the purposes of enforcing its.

< posted : 02/01,2008 >

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