Korea Immigration Fax Reporting 2026: What to Verify

📋 Verification basis: Immigration Act, Article 19 (employer report) and Article 21 (worker workplace change). Checked August 2, 2026.

Last checked: August 2, 2026

Correction to the previous version: This page previously described an employer’s 고용변동신고 as if it were an E-7 worker’s own permission or notification to change employers. It also presented a fax-eligibility table based on a HiKorea notice but linked only to the HiKorea home page. Because the exact notice could not be independently recovered during this update, the table and the universal channel claims have been removed.

Quick answer

Do not use this article alone to decide whether to fax an immigration filing. First identify who must file and which legal procedure applies. An employer’s employment-change report and a foreign worker’s workplace-change permission or notification are separate filings. A fax rule for one does not prove fax eligibility for the other.

The two procedures that were confused

Procedure	Who files	Purpose
Report on Change in Employment Information 고용변동신고	The employer	Reports specified events such as dismissal, resignation, death, unknown whereabouts or an important employment-contract change under Article 19.
Workplace change/addition permission or notification 근무처 변경·추가 허가/신고	The foreign worker or an authorized agent	Obtains or records the worker’s immigration authorization for a new or additional workplace under Article 21.

One does not replace the other. An employer completing its report does not automatically authorize the worker to start at a new workplace. Likewise, the worker’s immigration filing does not erase the employer’s separate reporting duty.

What is verified

Article 19 places the specified employment-change reporting duty on the employer.
Article 21 separately governs a foreign worker’s workplace change or addition.
The current Ministry E-7 guide says personal filing is the principle for E-7 post-notification because the passport is endorsed; an authorized agent may file.
The official materials reviewed for this correction do not establish a universal E-7 worker fax route.

What remains unverified

The exact May 2026 HiKorea notice cited by the former article was not available through its link and was not recovered through the official site’s indexed search results on August 2, 2026. That does not prove the notice never existed. It means this site should not repeat its detailed fax table without the original notice text and a stable source URL.

Fax and electronic-service availability can also be narrower than the legal duty itself. Always confirm the channel for the exact menu or form you need.

Which guide should you use?

If you are a foreign worker changing jobs: use the maintained job-change procedure source of truth. It owns the current deadline, forms, documents, fees and filing-channel guidance.

If you are an employer or HR officer: identify the Article 19 employment-change report separately and confirm the current HiKorea, fax or office channel through HiKorea or Immigration Contact Center 1345.

Before submitting anything

Write down the exact Korean name of the report or application.
Confirm whether the duty belongs to the employer or the foreign worker.
Check the current official form or HiKorea menu for that exact procedure.
Confirm the accepted channel before relying on fax or online submission.
Keep a submission receipt or confirmation number.

Related guides

Maintenance note: This page is now a scope-correction article, not the site’s authority for changeable submission channels. Those details belong to the linked procedure source of truth.

Disclaimer: General information only. Confirm the exact filing and channel with HiKorea, 1345 or a qualified professional before a deadline.