Kim Chang Lee maintains the largest corporate immigration practice in Korea, advising the world's largest global companies, law firms and other major service providers as their preferred advisor in Korea on all aspects of Korean corporate immigration law and practice matters.

Kim, Chang Lee files thousands of work visa and related applications every year for foreign expats and employees of multinational corporate clients in all industrial and service sectors. We also advise domestic and foreign companies on Korean immigration law and practice issues and regularly assist multinational corporations based in Korea in developing immigration compliance programs and resolving violations of immigration regulations.

The firm’s corporate immigration practice focuses on the following diverse areas:
- Korean work and resident visas: D-2, D-4, D-5, D-7, D-8, D-9, E-1, E-3, E-4, E-6, E-7, F-1, F-2, F-3, F-4, F-5 and F-6, among others
- Large-scale project assignments involving numerous assignees
- Non-standard cases with unusual and difficult facts and issues
- Review/refiling of unsuccessful applications handled by other service providers
- Korean immigration law and regulatory rules and practice
- Analysis/benchmarking of best practices
- Nationality law/permanent residency
- Immigration due diligence (generally, and in M&A transactions)
- Strategic planning and compliance
- Legal entity immigration sponsorship readiness assessment
- Resolution of violations / audits, examinations and investigations
- Document procurement/legalization
- Consular visa applications at foreign embassies in Korea
- General labor & employment matters affecting global workforce of multinational employers in Korea

Due to our deep and wide experience across all major industries, we are able to proactively deal with all of the unique issues that arise in specific industry sectors.

Obtaining of work visas for:

• Large group of foreign technical experts seconded as expats to Korea in connection with Korean military weapons development projects
• Retail store experts hired in Korea for the opening of large retail stores of a large American IT company in Korea
• Executives, senior managers and technical experts under expat assignment or international employment in diverse industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, IT, electronics, industrial infrastructure, energy, consulting, legal, consumer goods, aviation, defense, media and other major industries
• Foreign legal consultants assigned to work in Seoul law offices of foreign law firms
• Professors and specialists working at Korean branch campuses of foreign universities and Korean entities of foreign non-profit corporations
• Reporters working for foreign newspapers and other media companies
• Foreigners of Korean descent



Advisory services for:

• Korean nationality renouncement and dual nationality issues applying to expats who are of Korean descent
• Acquisition of permanent residency visas for long-term residents in Korea
• Naturalization of foreigners as Korean national under Multiple Citizenship for Outstanding Talent scheme
• Violations of passport, immigration and nationality laws and immigration office examinations and fine impositions