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Enforcement Decree of the Immigration Act — Article 77 (Execution of written orders of deportation)

출입국관리법 시행령 제77조

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.

(1) An immigration control official shall confirm whether money or articles kept by him or her have been returned to the relevant alien in executing a written order of deportation pursuant to Article 62 (1) of the Act. <Amended on Aug. 5, 2020>

(2) When the Head of an Immigration Office, the head of an office, the head of a branch office, or the head of a detention center requests a judicial police officer to execute a written order of deportation pursuant to Article 62 (2) of the Act, he or she shall issue a request for execution and deliver it along with the written order of deportation; provided, he or she may deliver a written order of deportation only and request the execution thereof verbally in an emergency. <Amended on May 8, 2018>

(3) When an immigration control official or a judicial police officer has completed repatriation based upon a written order of deportation under Article 62 of the Act, or has failed to execute such order because it is impossible to execute the order, he or she shall enter grounds for fulfillment or non-fulfillment in the written order of deportation, and without delay submit it to the Head of an Immigration Office, the head of an office, the head of a branch office, or the head of a detention center ; provided, if such grounds are verifiable through information and communications networks determined by the Minister of Justice, submission need not be made. <Amended on May 8, 2018; Aug. 5, 2020>

(4) When an immigration control official transfers an person subject to a deportation order to the captain of a ship, etc. or the forwarding agent pursuant to the proviso of Article 62 (3) of the Act, he or she shall issue a repatriation order stating personal matters, grounds for deportation, and that he or she is obligated to repatriate the person pursuant to Article 76 (1) of the Act, and receive a receipt stating the purport that the captain of a ship, etc. or the forwarding agent shall fulfill such obligation and has taken over such person subject to the deportation order. <Amended on Jun. 12, 2018>[This Article Wholly Amended on Nov. 1, 2011]

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