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TokyoLiz
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| Also, your choice of guarantor can be important. Frankly, you should try to find the most prestigious (preferably Japanese) person of your acquaintance possible who'd be willing to "guarantee" your application. Usually, this will be someone (preferably in management) at your full-time employer, though it can also be your department head or dean (if applicable), the head of your karate doujou (if applicable), your kid's school principal (again, if applicable), etc., etc.--the more prominent the acquaintance, the better your chances. |
Thanks for the advice. I know who to ask now. The link is very helpful, and I'll provide that info to the person I ask to be guarantor.
Was the foreign couple for whom you served as guarantor successful on their first application? |
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taikibansei
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| TokyoLiz wrote: |
Was the foreign couple for whom you served as guarantor successful on their first application? |
Yes, but I was dean of the university gakubu where the husband was employed full-time--and even then I strongly suggested that he ask a Japanese national. Fortunately, things worked out. |
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TokyoLiz
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 3:51 am Post subject: |
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| That's great that they were successful. Again, thanks for the tips. |
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victory7
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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Well that surprises me.
I hear of people being reprimanded for going to another prefecture to get a visa unless the person lives very close to that visa office, in a bordering prefecture.
Like a Chinese pair from Saitama who went to the Kawasaki immigration office. Well, they were told to go back to the prefecture where they reside.
Not being married to a Japanese means it is not as simple to get this visa.
Being self-supporting is the issue.
So many years of continuous residence is needed.
Some people have to wait a long time.
I read about taxes being an issue but others disagree.
I think Japan wants to be like the US and wants to know what money you have overseas. |
The 'others who disagree' about taxes are probably living in the past when the Japanese authorities were not intrusive about your finances or property elsewhere. That has changed and it changed a while ago.
Don't forget that after living 5 out of the previous 10 years in Japan, we are treated as Permanent Residents for tax purposes. Note that we don't have any rights or benefits of Permanent Residents in this case - it means we have obligations such as to declare all our income including overseas income on our taxation forms. We have to give the total figure of our income for the last financial year - including the amount that was derived from overseas. No ifs, no buts.
I think it is logical that those seeking PR as an actual visa status are going to have to be especially careful about this. I've heard it is actually harder to get PR than to get Citizenship. I am sceptical about this view.
According to a few people, supposedly for citizenship you don't have to show all the proof of income over a certain level and savings that PR applicants need. And you only need to be enrolled in the Health OR the Pension. Again, this seems to me to be a bit cloud cuckoo land. I can't believe anybody applying for citizenship will be treated more easily than those applying for PR.
And I certainly don't believe that both PR and Citizenship will be bestowed on those who don't pay into the pension scheme. |
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Maitoshi
Joined: 04 May 2014
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Agree with Vic about being paid up. If you need a loan for a home or other large purchase, not paying could come back to haunt you, too. |
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mitsui
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
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Location: Kawasaki
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Well that is why I never bothered to get PR.
I talked to a teacher from England who said the same stuff as you.
He has a Japanese wife and two kids but he decided just to move to the UAE.
His daughter got bullied so for her to stay at a Tokyo elementary school seemed like a bad idea.
I could retire in Japan so I won't rule out PR for the future.
It is pretty weird being an American and having to deal with FBAR and the IRS, and the Japanese government wants to imitate this approach.
I know a couple of people with PR who don't even live in Japan. One is retired in Hawaii and the other is working in Hong Kong.
I did owe for the pension for 2014 when I worked part-time, and paid half of it recently. |
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