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furiousmilksheikali
Joined: 31 Jul 2006
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Location: In a coffee shop, splitting a 30,000 yen tab with Sekiguchi.
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| So we're going to keep two threads going on this one? Is that one for you and one for your husband? |
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, get a multiple re-entry permit and ask for a 3 year visa. No guarantees that it'll be 3 years, but it doesn't hurt to ask. |
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Quibby84
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:01 am Post subject: |
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(people posted on this one..so I guess the other one died)
Who decides if I can get a 3 year visa? My boss or immigration?
I will definitely ask though..that would be really nice to have. |
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littleturtle
Joined: 31 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| Quibby84 wrote: |
| believe or not believe but my husband has a completely empty passport. Everyone who has seen it so far has been amazed. Just our luck to have something happen to us that doesnt happen in a million years. |
This, therefore, means your husband is an illegal immigrant. If immigration let him through as a tourist, he would have a landing permission stamp or sticker to that effect in his passport, with an expiry date. With nothing at all, your husband has not been granted landing permission in Japan.
Something just occured to me - your husband's passport doesnt happen to be a Japanese passport, does it? Thats the only scenario in which Immigration would let him through without any stamp at all, indeed the only situation which makes a whiff of sense in your husband's situation.
Though if this were the case, I think this might have crossed your mind to be relevant enough information to mention in your first post, so unless this whole thing is a wind-up, I think that you would have mentioned it. |
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Quibby84
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:09 am Post subject: |
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The let him through with an American Passport..I have no idea how or why it happened, but it did. I think that it was just a mistake (it was really late at night), but my husband did say something about them laughing when he got his visa....I just remembered that....you dont think those darn Japanese threw us a mean one do you?
But his visa is already worked out, the owner called Immigration and has figured out what to do, this was their error. And besides, what are they think he did, swim to Japan? I have plane tickets to prove that that didnt happen. His will be more complicated than mine but all will be ok.
Hope to move in next month..thanks for asking |
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littleturtle
Joined: 31 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| Quibby84 wrote: |
| I think that it was just a mistake (it was really late at night), but my husband did say something about them laughing when he got his visa....I just remembered that....you dont think those darn Japanese threw us a mean one do you? |
Ive NEVER heard of immigration making a 'mistake' like this. Its beyond belief that an immigration official would simply 'forget'. Hour of the day doesnt matter one iota - they work shifts.
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| And besides, what are they think he did, swim to Japan? I have plane tickets to prove that that didnt happen. |
Makes no difference whether he swam, arrived by aircraft, boat, jetpack or did a Jesus and walked over from Korea. As a non-citizen, you need landing permission granted by an immigration officer of this sovereign nation. Without it, you are illegally in the country.
Never mind what your employer said, have you and your husband been to Immigration to sort this out yet? How did it go? |
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Quibby84
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: |
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We went today and it was as easy as handing them the paperwork, sitting down for an hour, and then getting up to get our visas. It definitely was a mistake with his visa, I dont understand Japanese but I could tell by the lady's face that it was their mistake, so they fixed it and we all went about our day. They gave him the stamp he should have gotten at the airport and his visa stamp, they gave me only my visa stamp (since I had my other). I think the things that made them fix this problem was that he had the paper that you get stapled into his passport as well as I am his wife and I got a stamp. So write it down in the history books, Customs make a big "booboo"! We didnt think that we would be able to get my husband's visa today because we figured he had to apply for his gaijin card first but I guess they were so sorry for what they did that they just went ahead and did it.
So it was a long trip but a successful one.
Now we have to figure out how to get our month of in July. BUT now that we have our visas we have more solid ground to stand on. If we threaten to leave we can really do it now. |
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bornslippy1981
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:37 am Post subject: |
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Quibby,
I'm glad to hear everything worked out.
Enjoy,
B. |
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shuize
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| littleturtle wrote: |
| Ive NEVER heard of immigration making a 'mistake' like this. Its beyond belief that an immigration official would simply 'forget'. Hour of the day doesnt matter one iota - they work shifts. |
I held off mentioning it until Quibby's case was resolved, but I have heard of similar situation. It was before my time, but a friend in the States told me a story about how, back in the mid 70s, his American family was returning to Japan from a vacation in the U.S. and got bounced back and forth between immigration officers. Since they already had their visa they first waited in the "residents" line as they'd been told to do before they left. When they got to that immigration officer he took one look at their foreign faces and waived them over to the "visitors" line. After a long wait in that line, the second immigration officer checked their visas and said they should go wait in the "residents" line. Upon hearing this, my friend's dad got mad and just walked right through. My friend, probably about 7 years old at the time, and his mom didn't know what to do, so they ran after him -- not one of them getting their passport stamped in the process. |
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furiousmilksheikali
Joined: 31 Jul 2006
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Location: In a coffee shop, splitting a 30,000 yen tab with Sekiguchi.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Quibby84 wrote: |
| We went today and it was as easy as handing them the paperwork, sitting down for an hour, and then getting up to get our visas. It definitely was a mistake with his visa, I dont understand Japanese but I could tell by the lady's face that it was their mistake, so they fixed it and we all went about our day. They gave him the stamp he should have gotten at the airport and his visa stamp, they gave me only my visa stamp (since I had my other). I think the things that made them fix this problem was that he had the paper that you get stapled into his passport as well as I am his wife and I got a stamp. |
Are you sure you got a working visa stamp in your passport and not just a "visa pending" stamp put in?
I ask because it seems unusual that you would be issued with it if you have only just submitted your documents. Usually you have to wait a number of weeks before you receive a postcard saying your visa is ready for collection assuming you are eligible for it. If your husband has only just received his "point of entry" visa then it must have been his, and I presume your, first visit to immigration.
How much did you pay at immigration for the actual stamp? |
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Quibby84
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, I forget to mention that our company actually did do the paperwork ahead of time. We didnt think that they had done it but when we went today they had a stack of official looking papers (with our pictures on it and stuff) and that is why the visa was ready. My husbands stuff was in a very long time ago (mine about a month ago) but we didn't think he would get his without his gaijin card...so yeah, they had done the set up paperwork before we had gotten here.
I just checked our visas and we have a visa that lasts for one year from today. |
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kendoman1
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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No this whole story is BS and this thread should be taken down by the moderator at once!
This kind of BS thread could get someone in alot of trouble if they go by this information. Anyone that has been here in Japan for awhile knows this story is a lie. |
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Quibby84
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| right...like I have time to sit and make up a story for you reading entertainment....you are a funny funny man |
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zorro (3)
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:41 am Post subject: |
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Kendoman,
your paranoia is hilarious.
Keep up the good work. |
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kendoman1
Joined: 14 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:37 am Post subject: |
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No my friend it's not paranoia. I was just stating that her story has so many holes in it that you could drive a mack truck though it!
That's a fact not paranoia. |
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