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passport220
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 Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:40 am Post subject: Re-entry permit done "on the spot�? |
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| Is the processing of a re-entry permit application done "on the spot�? I mean if I have all the proper paperwork can I just hand it over the immigration counter and expect a re-entry permit a few minutes later? How much time should I allow to apply for the permit? I am in Saitama City by the way. |
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Glenski
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:57 am Post subject: |
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You buy the reentry permit like you would a stamp at the post office or a Coke at 7-11. Pay and you get it immediately. You can get it at more places than just the immigration office, too.
Putting it in your passport, however, must be done at immigration. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:13 am Post subject: |
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The whole process has never taken more than about 30 minutes for me. I have always gone to the Shinagawa Immigration office to apply.
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Cool Teacher
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:53 am Post subject: Re: Re-entry permit done "on the spot�? |
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| passport220 wrote: |
| Is the processing of a re-entry permit application done "on the spot�? I mean if I have all the proper paperwork can I just hand it over the immigration counter and expect a re-entry permit a few minutes later? How much time should I allow to apply for the permit? I am in Saitama City by the way. |
It depends on how many people are there at immigration. If there are lots of people you might have to wiat in a loing line usually you have to take a number and wait.
As the Glenster said, there should be a kind of shop in the immigration building where you buy a stamp and then I think that gets stuck on a form by immigration (Don't stick it your self!!!!!!!!  ) I think that re-entry costs about 3000 yen. Then when you do all the paperwork and give them the stuff you just sit and wait and then they give you your passport with a re-entry permit in it. The stamp and the re-entry permit are two different seperate things though. 
Oh yeah, you get it on the day you apply but try and get there early to be sure. My friend used to always get up really late and then get there after lucnh and couldn't get his permit and had to come back next day.  |
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Glenski
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:50 am Post subject: Re: Re-entry permit done "on the spot�? |
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| Cool Teacher wrote: |
| I think that re-entry costs about 3000 yen. |
Single entry, 3000 yen. Multiple reentry, 6000 yen.
(I seem to recall a 4000 yen single entry permit, but perhaps I paid that before it got cheaper?) |
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ripslyme
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: Re-entry permit done "on the spot�? |
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| passport220 wrote: |
| Is the processing of a re-entry permit application done "on the spot�? I mean if I have all the proper paperwork can I just hand it over the immigration counter and expect a re-entry permit a few minutes later? How much time should I allow to apply for the permit? I am in Saitama City by the way. |
Yes, it's done on the spot. If you're going to the one at Kita-Toda/Saitama Shintoshin, the wait can be more than a few minutes. Last time I went I turned in my stuff in the morning, waited, they took a lunch break and shortly after lunch my number was called. Including the lunch break it took about 3 hours, ymmv.
Oh and the place to buy the revenue stamp isn't in the immigration building itself. If you don't buy one beforehand, you have to go to the mall across the street, and there's a service counter on the first floor that sells them. |
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tsunatuna
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Glenski wrote: |
| You can get it at more places than just the immigration office, too. |
Now THAT is interesting!
All immigration offices are quite far away from here (plus I don't have a car). Do you have more information about this? |
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parrothead
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| I think Glenski means you can buy the stamp at more than one place (post office, certain convenience stores, service booths), but at least in my city only the immigration office can exchange the stamp for the re-entry permit. It's an interesting process. Why not cut out the middle man and just pay the immigration office directly? |
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Glenski
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| tsunatuna wrote: |
| Glenski wrote: |
| You can get it at more places than just the immigration office, too. |
Now THAT is interesting!
All immigration offices are quite far away from here (plus I don't have a car). Do you have more information about this? |
You can get the reentry permit in several places, but I'm afraid (like I wrote earlier), you'll have to find your own transportation to the immigration office to get it officially put in your passport.
What "more information" did you want? |
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tsunatuna
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 3:48 am Post subject: |
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Well, if I have to go to the immigration office in the end anyway, then it doesn't matter.
Thanks anyway  |
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G Cthulhu
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| parrothead wrote: |
| It's an interesting process. Why not cut out the middle man and just pay the immigration office directly? |
Stamp duty. Ah, that wonderfully archaic process. Used (typically & commonly) only in Japan, the US, and India these days. |
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BobbyBan
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| Glenski wrote: |
You can get the reentry permit in several places, but I'm afraid (like I wrote earlier), you'll have to find your own transportation to the immigration office to get it officially put in your passport.
What "more information" did you want? |
As far as I know you can get the re-entry permit at immigration alone, but that also means you can get the re-entry permit at the airport if you are there early and you are willing to risk the extreme wrathful glares of the immigration officials.
A re-entry permit has the date that you received it with the date that it expires, usually it is the date your status of residence (or visa, if you will) expires.
What you buy is a stamp. It is not a re-entry permit as it has no information on it except the price that you paid for the stamp. Immigration then take your forms that you have filled in and the stamp which should be to the monetary value of whatever permit you are applying for and then process your re-entry permit. |
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passport220
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the replies. To confirm if I show up early with a 3,000 yen duty stamp, my ARC, my passport and a completed application form, I can get a single re-entry permit at the airport? |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| You aren't supposed to get it at the airport, that is only supposed to be for people who have carelessly forgotten to get one beforehand, and as BobbyBan said, the officials do it grudgingly and after a lot of apologies on the part of the careless person. Showing up at the airport all prepared to get it there would likely displease them even further. If you possibly can, get it done at the Immigration office. |
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passport220
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Apsara wrote: |
| You aren't supposed to get it at the airport... |
Not sure what that means. I don�t read Japanese to read the administrative statues, but I doubt an equivalent phrase of �supposed to� is contained in the rules. It is part of their job at airport immigration or not.
It is a matter of time for me. I do not want to take time off work pay a special visit to get a re-entry stamp at the immigration office. It works best for me to get it at the airport. If by rule they have to accept permit applications at the airport, I don�t care a lot about how they feel about the hassle of doing their job. |
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