Korea e-Arrival Card 2026: Who Files, the 3-Day Window, and Q-CODE

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Image generated with ChatGPT for illustration purposes. Last checked: 2026-09-22 · Sources: e-Arrival Card portal FAQ , e-Arrival Card portal: who must file , K-ETA portal notice of 2025-12-23 , Embassy of Korea in the USA notice of 2025-12-29 , KDCA Q-CODE notice board , Incheon Airport arrival procedures · What changed recently: KDCA's 3rd-quarter 2026 quarantine-area list was revised on 2026-09-04, effective 2026-09-07; no change to the e-Arrival Card rules since the portal's 2026-01-08 user-guide notice. Three government forms sit between a foreign traveller and the immigration counter in Korea: K-ETA, the e-Arrival Card, and Q-CODE. Most guides give each a paragraph and stop. This one takes the e-Arrival Card apart screen by screen, because the form is where the practical questions live: which address a transit passenger types, what to enter when the return flight is not booked, and whether the 3-day window means 72 hours or three calendar dates. Every statement bel...
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