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GomiGirl wrote:On a tourist visa you should not have an alien card (gaikokujin tourokushou)
Spouse visa - are you married to a Japanese national or a foreign national on a working/business visa?
For the former you will have a whole slew of forms to fill out and documents to provide.
For the latter, you just need a copy of the visa that your spouse has.
remember that as the Spouse of a foreign national on a business visa you will be applying for a dependants visa and there are restrictions on the number of hours that you can work.
With a spouse visa (ie spouse of a japanese national) you can work full-time with no restrictions.
Remember to get your reentry permit at the same time (\6,000 for multiple reentry) but this you get and pay for after your visa application has been approved.
p.s. we are not all chaps here.
Hokuto-shinken wrote:Any idea what documents I would need?
FG Lurker wrote:The best thing to do is to go to immigration and say, "I'm going to be getting married and will be applying for a spouse visa. Please give me the forms and information for this." They will give you a packet of forms and a bunch of instructions.
It is quite a pain in the ass. Many forms, your wife will need to provide tax certificates, you'll need a copy of her touseki that shows you in it, etc etc. You also need a sponsor. Your wife can sponsor you, or you can ask her father to do it.
Although it is a pain, it's a LOT easier than it used to be.
(If you go back far enough, gaijin guys married to Japanese women couldn't get spouse visas, only gaijin women married to Japanese men could!)
GomiGirl wrote:I didn't know you could have a tourist visa for longer than 90 days.
gomichild wrote:I went through the visa change to spouse visa 3 years ago - and things may have changed since then.
But at that time we needed:
- marriage certificate
- his family register (get from ward office)
- his finacial information (you should be able to get a tax form from the ward office)
- my financial info
- a form in which the contact details for the closest family members from both sides, and whether they agreed/knew about the marriage
- a lengthy description of how we met and got married and our married life
- several photographs proving we had a history
- a printed map of our apartment and directions from the nearest train station
So it was pretty extensive. Of course everyone's experience is different and it depends on who you talk to at which damn immigration office.
Hokuto-shinken wrote:Tomorrow I will go to the local ward office with my wife, would I be able to get a TAX form from there? As my wife is busy with her job, it is my job to do the visa process myself. So, I want to make it as less stressful for her as possible. Can I get the other forms from the net?
gomichild wrote:I went through the visa change to spouse visa 3 years ago - and things may have changed since then.
But at that time we needed:
- marriage certificate
- his family register (get from ward office)
- his finacial information (you should be able to get a tax form from the ward office)
- my financial info
- a form in which the contact details for the closest family members from both sides, and whether they agreed/knew about the marriage
- a lengthy description of how we met and got married and our married life
- several photographs proving we had a history
- a printed map of our apartment and directions from the nearest train station
So it was pretty extensive. Of course everyone's experience is different and it depends on who you talk to at which damn immigration office.
FG Lurker wrote:Seriously, go to the immigration office first, before you start going around and collecting the data you think you might need. Tell them you want to change to a spouse visa, and they will give you a packet that has various forms in it and a list of the items you need to get regarding taxes etc. Once you know what you need then you can figure out the most efficient way to go about getting it. Otherwise you are likely to end up visiting several places twice when once would have been enough.
dimwit wrote:Sounds about right however they only asked us for one photo and a horribly blurred one at the that so I gave them one of a typical married day.
Hokuto-shinken wrote:[color="RoyalBlue"]It is a shame that the information is not put on the official site. It would make it a lot easier for the staff and for people getting married.[/color]
gomichild wrote:It's possible you'll only get 1 year the first time around, and then 3 years the next time. It may seem like a huge saga now - but renewing the spouse visa is much, much easier than changing to it the first time.
Mulboyne wrote:It sounds like you aren't getting phased by the whole process which is a good thing. If it does all seem a bit bit bureaucratic, it is worth knowing that it's just as time-consuming to get a spouse visa in many other countries. If you look at other threads on the forum, it seems that the US in particular has got a lot worse.
Hokuto-shinken wrote:[color="RoyalBlue"]...blah, blah, blue-colored, blah, blah, blah...[/color]
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