25 docs tagged with "visa-renewal"

After Japan PR approval: the 7-year card cycle, continuing tax and insurance duties, revocation risks, and the re-entry permit decision for long trips.

Changing your status of residence lets you switch visa types without leaving Japan: eligibility logic, documents, timelines, and work rules while you wait.

Why Japan PR gets refused: arrears, income, instability, conduct, documents, divorce mid-application, plus when and how to reapply successfully.

Dependent visa Japan: who can sponsor, the no-work default, the 28-hour weekly permit, period matching to the principal, and key renewal risks.

Japan's Designated Activities status explained: job-hunting graduates, working holidays, HSP parents, and the 2024 digital nomad route in full.

Proving marriage to immigration Japan: the evidence ISA expects, cohabitation rules, rejection patterns that kill filings, and long-distance fixes.

The Engineer/Humanities/International Services visa covers most office jobs in Japan: eligibility, required documents, and common renewal-rejection causes.

Extending your period of stay means filing at the immigration bureau within three months of expiry: documents, fees, timelines, and the two-month grace rule.

Divorce on a spouse visa in Japan: the 14-day notice, the 6-month revocation clock, conversion paths, and the 30-day newborn filing explained.

Japan's Highly Skilled Professional visa explained: points table, 70 and 80 thresholds, HSP-i vs HSP-ii, and the 1-year and 3-year PR fast tracks.

Japan's Instructor visa for public-school teachers and JET ALTs: eligible schools, qualification rules, documents, renewal rules, and exits to other statuses.

Japan's Intra-Company Transferee visa explained: the 1-year overseas rule, eligible duties, documents, renewal, and the long-term status path.

The ISA online system lets residents file extensions, status changes, and notifications without the bureau queue: registration, uploads, and current limits.

Long-term resident status: nikkei and humanitarian paths, post-divorce conversion, unlimited work, renewal risks, and the 5-year road to PR.

Changed employers on a Japan work visa? File the 14-day employer-change notification online, confirm your new role fits your status, and avoid renewal trouble.

Unpaid nenkin can block permanent residency and complicate renewal. Learn the 2-year pension review, what evidence to keep, and how to fix arrears fast.

Why is your period 1 year while a friend received 3 years? Learn how ISA assigns periods of stay, what lengthens them at renewal, and when to file.

Prepare a Japan PR application in 6 months: records audit, guarantor, reason letter, form set, regional bureau filing, processing wait, and approval fee.

Renewing a residence card in Japan means two tracks: status renewal or the PR 7-year card refresh. Learn which track applies, windows, and documents.

Same-sex partner visas in Japan: why spouse status does not apply, the Designated Activities workaround, the Japanese-partner case, and renewals.

Japan's Skilled Labor visa for chefs, pilots, trainers, and artisans: the 10-year rule, the Thai-chef exception, documents, and renewal killers.

Japan's Specified Skilled Worker visa explained: SSW Type 1 vs Type 2, the covered sectors, entry tests, renewal rules, and the TITP conversion path.

Spouse of Japanese national status: eligibility, unlimited work, 1 to 5 year periods, renewal evidence, and the spouse PR path with its 2027 change.

Spouse of permanent resident status: PR-spouse eligibility, unlimited work, conservative period grants, renewal risks, and the residency math toward PR.

Japan's Technical Intern Training Program: phases, supervision, documented abuses, the 2027 Training and Employment successor, and the SSW path.