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How long did it take to get your COE or if you skipped the COE your visa? |
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Great Teacher Umikun

Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Back in Japan
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:52 am Post subject: |
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Apsara wrote: |
You need another category: "It was so long ago I can't remember" |
And another: BLOODY AGES!!!!
I applied for mine from here in Japan day before yesterday, and I�m hoping I can get it before my temporary visitor status poops out on May 12. Otherwise, I�ll be spending one night of Golden Week at Incheon Airport this year. Thankfully, this site (http://www.sleepinginairports.net/asia/seoul.htm) rated Incheon a best airport runner-up for overnight campouts. I�ll also have to buy an outbound ticket to somewhere else and hope I can get it refunded or cancelled after coming back to Japan. |
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Glenski

Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Great Teacher Umikun wrote: |
I applied for mine from here in Japan day before yesterday, and I�m hoping I can get it before my temporary visitor status poops out on May 12. Otherwise, I�ll be spending one night of Golden Week at Incheon Airport this year. |
Why? You don't have to leave if your visa application is in.
I won't ask why you dredged up a 4-year-old thread. |
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Great Teacher Umikun

Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Back in Japan
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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Glenski wrote: |
Why? You don't have to leave if your visa application is in. |
That�s the clincher. I have to wait for the COE before I can apply for the change in status, and I can still get bounced out of the country while the COE is being processed. |
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Glenski

Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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Have you verified that with immigration? I don't think you have to leave while waiting for the COE. |
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Great Teacher Umikun

Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Back in Japan
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:46 am Post subject: |
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Glenski wrote: |
Have you verified that with immigration? I don't think you have to leave while waiting for the COE. |
Yup! I verified it. They told me at the dreaded S counter, though, that going to Korea and coming back during Golden Week was okay. I was hoping I�d be allowed to stay for the COE processing, but that would be the reasonable thing to do, so la migra japonesa would never do such a thing. ^_^ |
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