So I just got back from work this morning, and I want to show you something
that arrived in my mailbox; I've been waiting for it for a few months now.
Let's check it out!
BOOM! That is the postcard I've been waiting for--it is the finalization for
permanent residence - CHA CHING CHING! GOT IT!
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So here I am at the post office. I'm about to pay 8,000 yen to obtain a revenue stamp
showing that I have paid the price to apply for my permanent residence visa.
So you need your passport, this notice postcard, a revenue stamp which I'm currently
applying for, my residence card which I have in my wallet, as well as my
application receipt. Well... there you have it. We're gonna go ahead and get ready to go to the
immigration office. You heard right, guys! I finally obtained my permanent
residence after exactly four months and one week from submitting my application.
Clifford from Telecine Tohoku here, and I want to make this short video. By NO
MEANS consider this to be official legal advice. I am NOT an immigration lawyer
nor am I totally well-versed in immigration law but I want to go ahead
and share the details of my story to encourage you guys to do it on your own
should you be in a position to do so. But before I share a few more details, let me
go ahead and get a little bit more comfortable. Ooo... that feels better!
All right! Now to get started, if you go to the Immigration Bureau website on the
Ministry of Justice webpage, you can find the PDF files for the basic application
for permanent residence as well as the letter of guarantee that you'll need. But
beyond these documents, I had to supply a plethora of other things. The basic
application you'll need to fill out your basic biographical information,
citizenship, address in Japan, your residence card number, your visa status,
type of status, when it's going to renew itself, passport number, you get the idea.
And then you have to basically record a work history--brief work history.
I was lucky enough to have worked for the same company for my entire time here
in Japan, so that was very simple. I had to record my current company's
employment; which again, for my case, it was the same. And then I also (not on the
document itself) but I had to submit my statement of earnings from the previous
tax year along that section. Then I had to provide some information (in my case)
of my immediate family--my family that lives with me, and then I had to provide
information on my guarantor, as well as my reason that I
wanted to apply for permanent residence. Now, in addition to that two-page
application, I submitted a essay both in English and Japanese. I got some help
from a Japanese friend citing in more detail why I wanted to stay in Japan and
how I wanted to contribute to Japanese society. So that was that. In addition to
that, what's not on the website, I had to fill out a family background which is
called a "Shinzoku no Gaiyou" So the "Shinzoku no Gaiyou"-- the family
background form, I had to fill out the names of all of my family, their
relationship to me, their ages, their occupations, their *phone numbers* , their locations
and so I had to ask them for that information. And also for good measure, I
included the names and phone numbers of my wife's family and luckily her family
is a little smaller than mine. The next form I had to submit was called
the "Juukyo Houkokusho" or the Report of Residence, NOT to be confused with the
residence certificate or the "Juuminhyou" which you can obtain from your local
ward office. Now on this "Juukyo Houkokusho", I had to indicate where I live by
attaching a map (I found it just on Google Earth). I attached a map with the
nearest station as well as business nearest to my house. I had to indicate
how many minutes either by train or walking by bus was my house from the
nearest *station". And then I also had to indicate the building materials of my
house, when it was made, whether I was renting or buying my house, as well as
whether it was a one story or two story. So if you live an apartment, obviously,
that information will be a little bit more simple but I had to indicate
the measurements of my house so that was really interesting. And then
moving on to the more official documents that I obtained from my ward office, I
had my "Juminhyou" which is my certificate of residence. I think I
remember paying about 300 yen for that. The next thing I obtained from my local
ward office was my Certificate of Taxes Filed and Certificate of Taxes Paid. And
I got that for the previous THREE tax years, showing that I am a good
law-abiding, taxpaying "citizen". All right! So then, the next thing I had to supply
was a letter of guarantee and this is probably the biggest hurdle for many
people applying for permanent residency in Japan--is finding somebody who will be
their guarantor. So basically, what a guarantor does is they put their neck on
the line by swearing that this person they're underwriting is going
to abide by the law as a law-abiding "citizen",
and financially should this person not be able to fulfill their financial
obligations repatriating into their own country (in the case that they do return)
then I will cover that difference. So the role of a guarantor is a BIG DEAL. The
reason why this matters is when you are working in Japan, income tax is
generated based off of the previous work year. If you're from another
country--like America (like I am)-- my income tax is deducted from my work
based off of the current year. Okay. But in Japan, you make a salary from the
previous year and then in the following year that you continue to be employed
your income taxes are generated and they're broken up over the next
12-month period. Now where that comes into a big issue is if you leave Japan
after a contract then because you have not paid all of the income taxes from
the previous year, you are required to pay that all in one lump sum instead of
having it broken out over twelve months like you usually would should you
continue to be employed in Japan. So that's a big financial obligation for
anybody. You need to save up for that and if you are not able to meet that
obligation before leaving then a guarantor will
necessarily have to foot part of the bill. In addition to my letter of
guarantee, my guarantor had to submit their OWN certificate of taxes filed and
paid for just the previous tax year. Then I had to submit a copy of a few pages
from my bank book--I'm sure they're just trying to see how I spend my money, and
then finally, I had to submit what's called a "Zaishoku Shomeisho" or Proof
of Employment, which is basically a letter on official letterhead from my
current employer indicating that I am and indeed employed by them with their
official stamp on it. So those were all the documents that I
had to submit. Now you may be wondering what are the benefits of applying for
permanent residency. Well one thing to establish is it's NOT the same as
citizenship. I am still a citizen of the United States, but in applying for
permanent residence I show that I am here long term, I--among many things--I
have no limitations upon the jobs that I want to choose when you come here to
Japan, on a traditional visa, there are I believe 13 or 14 different categories of
work visas and if you are in one category of visa you are only permitted
to do work within that category. So I, being a specialist in humanities
previously, was only able to qualify for work within that
field--that being, namely for me, being an English conversation school teacher. So
having permanent residence, I no longer have limitations on the type of jobs for
which I can do. Additionally, employers do not have to sign as my guarantor to be
able to employ me. So that's a benefit as well. An additional benefit is that the
interest rates on things like credit cards, car loans, housing loans drop
drastically when you've proven a track record of being here for a long time.
So for those of you guys who are seeking to apply on your own, I waited the
traditional ten years before applying for my visa. I had heard anecdotally that
if you have been married to a Japanese national for over five years you could
also apply in that way and I had friends who did that. But in light of
Japan's approaching population crisis Japan has been trying to increase
foreign workers to help bolster the economy and they're relaxing some of the
restrictions in order to apply for permanent residence. I'm not quite sure
how the system goes I know there's a point system for special (FAST TRACK) permanent
residence that if you reach a threshold of like 70 points, you qualify for being
able to apply for permanent residence and as little as one year so they're
trying to encourage highly skilled workers along that route. Now as a
DISCLAIMER: Let me say that I'm pretty well-versed in Japanese. I can
survive on my own and I have Japanese friends to help me out and if you have
neither of those or if you don't feel confident in your Japanese level to fill
out paperwork, maybe I would go to an immigration lawyer and go that route.
But again it can be done on your own guys.
Well that's it guys! Thanks for watching this video. If you liked it go ahead and
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Thanks for watching and check you guys on the flipside. PEACE!
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