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Trumpcard
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 Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: Entering Japan again - possible Immigration hassle coming up |
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| Last April, I had a new Visa issued when I signed up with a public school dispatch company in Osaka. I did this job for a few months before deciding it wasn't quite for me, gave appropriate notice and then sat back for a couple of months before leaving Japan. I didn't hand in my ARC at Immigration. My visa expires this coming May. Since last November I've been working in Seoul and starting a new job in a month. I have to do a visa run to Japan (and I'd prefer going to Japan for this in order to catch up with friends). At Immigration, should I stand in the ARC/resident queue and give my address as stated on my ARC or enter as a tourist? |
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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:26 am Post subject: Re: Entering Japan again - possible Immigration hassle comin |
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| Trumpcard wrote: |
| Last April, I had a new Visa issued when I signed up with a public school dispatch company in Osaka. I did this job for a few months before deciding it wasn't quite for me, gave appropriate notice and then sat back for a couple of months before leaving Japan. I didn't hand in my ARC at Immigration. My visa expires this coming May. Since last November I've been working in Seoul and starting a new job in a month. I have to do a visa run to Japan (and I'd prefer going to Japan for this in order to catch up with friends). At Immigration, should I stand in the ARC/resident queue and give my address as stated on my ARC or enter as a tourist? |
Enter as a tourist. There's no reason not to. |
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Trumpcard
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| so no problems when the immi official sees I still have a current work visa but entering as a tourist? |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| If you left Japan without buying a reentry permit, your alien card and visa are invalidated upon your return. Therefore, you are a tourist. |
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japanman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
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Location: England
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| Just enter in the normal Japanese queue with the re-entry people. they wont look at the rest of your passport. I left for a while and came back at the end of a three year visa and they didn't say anything, which ofcourse they shouldn't have done anyway. I was entering the country legaly on a legal visa and re-entry permit. The re-entry permits are three years long so there's nothing they can do about it. |
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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: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| japanman wrote: |
| The re-entry permits are three years long so there's nothing they can do about it. |
No, re-entry permits are either single or multiple and the multiple re-entry permits are valid until the end of your visa term. If your visa is only valid for one year then that is the maximum length your multiple re-entry permit is valid for.
If you have a valid visa and alien card and your re-entry visa hasn't been used (in the case of a single) or is a multiple one then you can come back via the residents' queue.
If you have a re-entry permit then you should also have filled in a re-entry slip that should be in your passport. Having this will make it much easier to get back in without having to stand in the tourists' queue. |
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japanman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
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Location: England
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| Oh yes, I just made the wrong assumption that the peron's visa in question was for three years because mine is. |
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Trumpcard
Joined: 29 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for all the replies everyone! Just looked at my passport, my ne year visa expires on the 4th of May, I have a multi re-entry permit expiring same date and I have a diembarkation card stapled in. So I'll just enter as a resident. |
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