Bolivian Denied Residency Because Grandfather Remarried When Dead

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Yomiuri: Bolivian denied residency over family register snag
A Bolivian woman of Japanese descent has asked the Nagoya Family Court to revise her grandfather's family register because she believes it contains a false entry that scuttled her application for long-term resident status in Japan. Hafat Kalinka Mitzuko Ishiuchi...submitted documents such as her Kumamoto Prefecture-born grandfather's marriage certificate and her father's birth and marriage certificates to the Nagoya Regional Immigration Bureau to prove she was a third-generation Japanese. However, her application was refused because her grandfather's family register at the Toyonomachi municipal government in Kumamoto Prefecture stated he had married a different Bolivian woman in November 2004, not Ishiuchi's grandmother--despite Ishiuchi saying that he died in 1979...The court will question a Bolivian man living in the Kanto region who was granted long-term resident status after making a notification stating he was the "grandchild" of Ishiuchi's grandfather...However, Ishiuchi's attorney examined documents such as family register records that had been sent from Bolivia and found that her grandfather had not married a different woman and that the woman named on the family register did not exist. "The records are clearly false. The notification was cleverly forged in the style used in Bolivia," the attorney said. "I suspect that an organization could be involved"...more...