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Geos/ECC?Aeon - on sponsoring spouse visas?

 
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Angelfish



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:13 am    Post subject: Geos/ECC?Aeon - on sponsoring spouse visas? Reply with quote
Do these three, in your own or overheard experiences, sponsor spouse visas? (I am British, the spouse is also British by birth)

I've emailed all three and had no response from any of them.

Also, the way they sponsor the visa, would they provide a COE for the spouse or would one have to go about getting the COE themselves (I can imagine this being quite difficult)?

Sorry if this has been asked before and thank for any possible responses.
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Glenski



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Learn the terminology. If you are both British, then you don't get a spouse visa. One of you gets a work visa, the other gets a dependent visa. Spouse visas are for people who are married to Japanese, and in that instance it is the Japanese person (usually) who sponsors it, not the employer!

If you want a job with them, you get a work visa. You are the one, then, who sponsors your spouse's dependent visa. Again, it's not the employer.

Probably explains why you got no response from GEOS, ECC or AEON.
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Angelfish



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I apologise. I meant Dependent's visa.
My reason for the confusion is this:
http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/visa/visa-gen.html

According to the Embassy of Japan based in London, down in section 4 it states...
Quote:
Applicants must either obtain a Certificate of Eligibility or read the next section (Dependent Visa) for an alternative procedure.


This is why I was confused about the company providing a COE.
If you go through the link about the COE, this is the information provided...
Quote:
If an applicant wishes to work, study, or live in Japan, he/she should in principle first obtain a Certificate of Eligibility. The Certificate of Eligibility is issued by the Ministry of Justice in Japan. To obtain a Certificate of Eligibility, the applicant must ask a sponsor in Japan (an employer, spouse, school, etc.) to contact the local immigration office and make an application on his/her behalf. The application must be made by a sponsor in Japan. It cannot be made by the applicant himself.


So, if I go to Japan, get a job etc, I can then go to my local immigration and get a COE for my husband?

Again, I apologise for all the confusion and the questions. I'm in Thailand, it's very hot and my brain is fried from sunstroke (yeah, I know, typical useless Brits in the sun on holiday) Rolling Eyes
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Glenski



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Angelfish wrote:
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To obtain a Certificate of Eligibility, the applicant must ask a sponsor in Japan (an employer, spouse, school, etc.) to contact the local immigration office and make an application on his/her behalf.


So, if I go to Japan, get a job etc, I can then go to my local immigration and get a COE for my husband?
The quote above mentions employer, spouse, school, etc. because there are so many kinds of visas, and each one requires a different sponsor.

work visa - employer
spouse visa - Japanese spouse
student visa - your school

To answer your question, yes, once you have a job with a visa secured, go to immigration and file for that dependent visa.
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