This article is an article targeting people who acquire / update their Japanese spouse visa.
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Contents
1. What is Japanese Spouse Visa
Japanese spouse visa is one of the types of status of residence that foreigners married to Japanese can get.
But it is important to note that all foreigners married to Japanese do not qualify for sure.
There are following two reasons.
1-1. The organization that accepts marriage registration and the organization that grants status of residence are different
Ward office / city office will accept the application for marriage registration, Immigration Bureau accept the application for status of residence permission.
So even if theWard office / city office accepts the marriage registration and the international marriage with the Japanese is established, the immigration bureau may not allow you to grant a Japanese spouse visa.
If you have Japanese spouse visa, there is no work restriction in Japan. In addition, marriage with Japanese relaxes the requirement for Japanese permanent residency and Japanese nationality acquisition. From these backgrounds, there are people who disguise marriage with Japanese and acquire Japanese spouse visa illegally.
2. Benefits of Japanese Spouse Visa
The following three points are cited.
2-1. There is no work restriction
There is no work restriction on the status of residence ”Japanese spouse”, and you can change jobs freely.
Even if you change jobs, you do not have to apply for something.
Also you can do part-time job.
2-2. Requirement for acquiring permanent residency become relaxed
if you have a 3 year period with the status of residence “Japanese spouse” and you stay in Japan for more than 3 years after marriage, you will be able to change your qualification to permanent residents.
On the other hand, in order to change from status of residence(except for Japanese Spouse visa) to permanent residency, it is necessary for you to stay in Japan continuously for more than 10 years .
(This is a strict requirement in comparison with other countries.)
2-3. Requirement for acquiring Japanese nationality become relaxed
If a foreign spouse has been living in Japan for more than three years, it is possible to apply for naturalization.
It is not necessary to pass three years after international marriage.
For example, if you are an international student and live in Japan for 3 years, you can meet the requirements of naturalization when you marry a Japanese.
3. Flow until acquiring Japanese Spouse Visa
As a premise,
· You (not Japanese) and your partner (Japanese) are in Japan
· You have a Japanese work visa etc
3-1. Marriage proposal
It is a statement of determination towards each other’s marriage.
In our case, when I knew my wife’s pregnancy, I told her on the phone, “I’d like to get married.” And she told me, “OK”.
Some people may think that the marriage proposal should be more romantic. Lol
3-2. Greeting to each other’s parents
In order to establish international marriage, you must submit various documents.
But there may be some documents that you can’t get in Japan.
When trying to get married without getting consent of your parents, you will have trouble because you can’t get the cooperation on document collection.
It is best to face seriously and have your parents admit marriage.
I have been admitted safely, but I remember that my palm was badly sweating. Lol
3-3. Submission of marriage registration
We collect the necessary documents together with the marriage notification, and submit it to the ward office / city hall.
For details, please refer to the following page.
3-4. Application for Japanese Spouse Visa
We prepare necessary documents and submit it to Immigration Bureau.
The Tokyo Immigration Bureau is crowded and it takes quite some time for the application to be completed. .
4. Documents necessary for acquiring Japanese Spouse Visa
Since it is a premise that you have Japanese work visa here, you will be applying for permission to change your status of residence (Japanese spouse).
Although listed on the link above, the required documents are the following 11 types.
1 Application for permission to change status of residence
2 photos (4 cm long x 3 cm wide)
3 Family register copy of the spouse (kosekitohon in Japanese)
4 1 marriage certificate issued by the applicant’s nationality country (foreign country)
5 Tax (or tax exemption) certificate and tax payment certificate of the spouse (Japanese)
6 One copy of guarantee for the spouse (Japanese)
7 Resident’s card (one with household description) of the spouse (Japanese)
8 Question forms
9 Snapshot (couple reflected in the photograph, and one whose appearance can be clearly confirmed) 2, 3 leaves
10 Passport presentation
11 Residence card presentation
By the way our marriage (Japan x Myanmar) has not submitted the fourth marriage certificate.
I informed the Embassy of Myanmar in Japan that our marriage was established in Japan.
However, the response from the Myanmar embassy in Japan was that it was impossible for our marriage to be established in Myanmar.
By explaining that point to the immigration officials, they understood that there was no marriage certificate issued in Myanmar.
5. Important things for acquiring Japanese Spouse Visa
There are two important points that you have to show to the Immigration Bureau in order to have permission of the Japanese status of residence ”Japanese spouse”.
5-1. Not a fake marriage
Because there are many fake marriages, examination of permission of Japanese spouse visa is severe.
For those who truly love each other, those who make fake marriages are very annoying.
5-2. Making living expenses to keep living in Japan
Even if you got married after love each other, you can not always get Japanese spouse visa.
It is very important whether you can continue to married life.
In order to continue married life, not only love of two people, a certain income is necessary
So you must submit tax payment certificate and tax certificate for that purpose.
