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Cool Teacher
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I know one big issue (to get PR) is to have your alien card for the whole time. ???
I think its what the 10 years is based on??
so if you got a new (different) alien card you start again (I am not talking about updating) |
Oh dear! I wonder if that could cause a probelm because I did lose my gaijin card and have to get a new one. 
Thanks for the info flyer... this is exactly the kind of useful information I would like. |
You are not expected to have had the same gaijin card for the whole ten years- that is not even possible, since they are only valid for 5 or so years before they need renewal- check the date on yours. In any case, can you really imagine that Immigration would deny someone PR because they lost their gaijin card 8 years before and had to get a new one?
Length of stay in Japan is important. How long you have had your current gaijin card is not.  |
Thanks Aspara!  |
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Cool Teacher
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| I don't think the gaijin card thing is about having accidentally lost a gaijin card. I think if they use it, it would be because they want people to have been in Japan for ten solid years (other than vacations). They don't want people to show up, get a three year visa, leave after a year, get their pension back, a year later and get another job, and therefore three year visa and repeat the process. The idea (if they do this gaijin card thing) is that you turn your gaijin card in before you leave the country permanently or else you won't be eligible to get your pension back, and so if you ARE doing something like that, you will have a new gaijin card. So if you HAVE been in the country ten years and lost your card but got a new one, you could just show them your passport (and previous passport if you had to get yours renewed) as proof that you've been in the country that long. |
Ahhh! I think I will be okay then. That record should be in city hall or ward office though, shouldn't it? Do you know if I can go there and ask them for proof of residence and proof that I paid all my taxes etc...? Just wondering...  |
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