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GomiGirl wrote:
However, as gomichild suggested, I should have asked them how the search for Lindsay Hawkers killer was going seeing as they were randomly stopping people on the street. Maybe next time!!
FG Lurker wrote:I was caught driving on an expired license and the cops couldn't quite figure out what to do with me. In the end they just marked the back of my license and told me to renew it the next day! They then proceeded to let me drive myself home...
I have also left my gaijin card as being non-updated after moves, job changes, and passport renewals. The ward office has never bothered me about it. Once they made me sign a "gomennasai" letter but other times nothing at all. No rhyme or reason... Beats me!
ttjereth wrote:What's the "gomennasai letter"? I've never had to sign or fill out anything when I get my card updated, late or not.
Is it actually an apology letter?
ttjereth wrote:What's the "gomennasai letter"? I've never had to sign or fill out anything when I get my card updated, late or not.
Is it actually an apology letter?
FG Lurker wrote:It's a form addressed to the Minister of Justice. They ask you to write the reason you were late to do _________ and sign your name for it. Just saying that you were very busy with work and unable to get to the ward office is fine.
ttjereth wrote:What's the "gomennasai letter"? I've never had to sign or fill out anything when I get my card updated, late or not.
Is it actually an apology letter?
FG Lurker wrote:It's a form addressed to the Minister of Justice. They ask you to write the reason you were late to do _________ and sign your name for it. Just saying that you were very busy with work and unable to get to the ward office is fine.
gboothe wrote:Every government agency in Japan, to include personnel offices for government employees, have some kind of a general "gomen nasai" form. It covers and absolves all sins for missing deadlines, whether it is for employee actions, changing over health insurance, missing tax deadlines, or in Waga FG's case, not up-dating our gaijin toroku.
Getting one from any agency (other than the police) is like getting the Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card in Monopoly. Whatever sin you have purportrated against Japan and the Emperor is about to be commuted faster than you can say "Scooter Libby".
I hesitate to mention the ones that are used by the police because they will try to get you to make an "I'm sorry" statement at any given time. Sometimes after telling you that it is only a routine matter of paperwork and a Japanese courtesy, they will hold it up in court, point to you and call it by a new name, "confesssion".
Behan wrote:What an experience, tthereth! That must have been scary.
Behan wrote:The last time I was stopped for a gaijinin card/passport check was at the shopping area upstairs at Narita Airport. I had both documents but the cops went on to ask me all sorts of questions about work, where I lived, etc.
I have a permanent visa so couldn't I just be unemployed and live in a cardboard box in a park anyway?
I thought the cops were a bit dumb because most of the people in that shopping area, I am guessing, are people departing Japan and waiting for their flights.
If you were an undocumented illegal immigrant would you hang around at Narita Airport? I'd get out out of there really fast if I were.
;)"Yeah, I've been always awkward toward women and have spent pathetic life so far but I could graduate from being a cherry boy by using geisha's pussy at last! Yeah!! And off course I have an account in Fuckedgaijin.com. Yeah!!!"
sublight wrote:When I got a new gaijin card last year, they discovered that I needed to update my wife's name on it. She's listed as the 'householder' and since we'd gotten married (we were just living together when I got the first card) she'd changed her last name to mine. That was one I'd never thought of.
gboothe wrote:Wait a minute. Am I missing something here? Are you saying that the spouse's name must appear on the gaiji toroku?
gboothe wrote:Wait a minute. Am I missing something here? Are you saying that the spouse's name must appear on the gaiji toroku?
I are confused!
gboothe wrote:Damn, I must be getting Bokke in my young age, or something, although it's been a considerable time since I had a spouse sponsored visa, I can never remember my wife's name appearing on my registration, even when we had the booklet instead of the card.
The only thing I can ever remember having and also having to update was the address, which most be updated with in some many weeks of a change (non-perm residences also have to update employment with in so long after a change).
But I'll be damned if I can ever remember the old lady's name on me card. Let me know if this is new or something.
ttjereth wrote:I'm on a spouse visa now and my wife's name isn't on mine either. It can differ depending on who's listed as head of household (I am on a spouse visa because my wife is a Japanese national, but I am the breadwinner according to all documentation, taxes etc. as well as, unfortunately, my checkbook).
I also think what gets listed on them tends to differ quite a bit from location to location. I know there are some minor differences in my current card and the ones I had when I lived in the boondocks.
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