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Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Act — Article 61 (Inspections and requests for presentation of documents)

출입국관리법 시행령 제61조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-06-01. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-10-02) — check the Korean original.

Where a suspect denies his or her suspicion or an immigration control official deems that documents alone submitted by the suspect are not enough to prove his or her suspicion when investigating the suspect pursuant to Article 47 of the Act, the immigration control official may inspect residence or articles of a third person related to the suspect or request the third person to present documents or articles. In such cases, the immigration control official shall obtain prior consent from the third person.[This Article Wholly Amended on Nov. 1, 2011]

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