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[BBQchips]

Hello. I have been lurking for a very long time and since it's very much a possibility I'll be in Japan next spring I thought I'd sign up, say "hi and thanks for all of the advice" as well as ask my own nagging question...

Well I intend to go to Japan by myself but I have a problem. My brother lives in Japan already with his wife and two kids. My mother and I live in the states. She is a Filipino citizen and working as well part time and most of her money is sent to the Philippines to her family there.

I am worried about her when I leave. She said she would like to continue working more here in the states. Because she has absolutely no education at all she is fortunate to have her job and be able to send money home to the philippines. She doesn't want me to leave which is understandable because when I leave she will be the only person in the states. Me and my brother will both be in jp and her other family in Philippines.

So I told this story now to asl these series of questions:

1) Is it possible for me to work in Japan (maybe a year or more) and then bring my mother over at a later date as a dependent? Will immigration frown upon that and send her packing?

2) Is it possible for her to find a job if she were my dependent? She has no education (working since elementary age in the philippines before coming stateside) and speaks 0 Japanese. I understand there is a sizeable filipino pop. there some who work as Maids and others as Nurses (obviously she can't be a nurse). How likely is that?

3) Anyone here help support a Family in a foreign country (ie. philippines) on a single Japanese salary?

4) Will my mother be lonely? I won't be near Naha (where my brother and his family live). Also I don't know how spread out the pinoy population is in areas that aren't Tokyo, Okinawa etc etc.

I don't think I want my mother to live with my brother and his family because he is married and has kids and my mother says it's never good for a wife to live with her mother in law. Plus, my brother's mother in law is always around them. I'm a female so she wants to be with me and my future husband (i have no plans in settling down anytime soon).

So what do you think? Please any advice would be stellar!

[Glenski]

[BBQchips]

thanks Glenski. Some of your advice did come up in my research and the other things you said certainly gave me food for thought. My mother said she would rather stay in the states and work rather than go to Japan anyway when I talked to her about it. I just really wanted to know. As for my brother I do plan to tell him but I'm having a lot of trouble contacting him. But I'll tell him soon(er or later).

thanks again!