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chokonen888 wrote:GomiGirl wrote:chokonen888 wrote:Tangent: Got my newfucked gaijinresidency card yesterday...oooh, fancy!
Do you have to take your own photo in? What forms as well? Or did you just rock up and get it?
Brought in a nice passport sized photo, only one. Nooooooowhere did they request any form or say what you need to bring other than your current card and pic...so naturally I had everything possible with me. There was a very simple 1 page from they gave me (took all of 1 minute) and they took my passport (verifying visa status) and I had the new card within 20 mins. To be honest, despite the amount of people there, things went pretty fast and smooth. Only thing that would have been better is something saying exactly what you need to bring.
wagyl wrote:I don't know if it was independent of visa renewal as such, but Choko seemed to describe the process like he had approached it independently here:
omae mona wrote:Cool, thanks SJ.
Has anybody gone through a conversion of old ARC to Zairyu Card, independently of visa renewal? This would happen if your card expiration falls between visa renewals, or if you have PR and are converting just your card (believe deadline is summer 2015). I wonder if any documents at all are required besides the passport.
GomiGirl wrote:BTW what is the official word on keeping it with you at all times? What happens if you lose your wallet? I never have but can be certain that as soon as I have something I can never lose, I will surely lose it.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:GomiGirl wrote:BTW what is the official word on keeping it with you at all times? What happens if you lose your wallet? I never have but can be certain that as soon as I have something I can never lose, I will surely lose it.
You can get it replaced for free but if you somehow managed to get stopped by the pigs in the meantime, I'm sure it'll be a royal PITA. Plus they could fine you. That's why I made a photocopy to keep at home just in case.
GomiGirl wrote:I haven't but I will need to do it around September or October as I need to get a new passport before Feb next year. I will wait until we have arrived back from holidays and get it done before Christmas. I will get the Zairyu card at the same time.
BTW what is the official word on keeping it with you at all times? What happens if you lose your wallet? I never have but can be certain that as soon as I have something I can never lose, I will surely lose it.
omae mona wrote:GomiGirl wrote:I haven't but I will need to do it around September or October as I need to get a new passport before Feb next year. I will wait until we have arrived back from holidays and get it done before Christmas. I will get the Zairyu card at the same time.
BTW are you planning to visit immigration purely to get your visa transferred from the old passport to the new passport? If so, I think you can save the time and skip it. You can carry both passports together and return to Japan; the new passport is the actual travel document, but they will accept your visa / residence status info and reentry permit from an expired passport. They will urge you to visit immigration to get the info transferred as soon as possible "for your own convenience". But I never quite understood how wasting a day at immigration could be more convenient than carrying around an extra document that probably weighs about 50 grams.
yanpa wrote:Unless you are planning a trip to India on the new passport, in which case they want to see your current Japanese visa in the current passport if you are applying for an Indian visa in Japan.
omae mona wrote:[ I waited until I had an actual visa renewal deadline (nearly a year later, I think) to get the update.
wagyl wrote:yanpa wrote:Unless you are planning a trip to India on the new passport, in which case they want to see your current Japanese visa in the current passport if you are applying for an Indian visa in Japan.
We all expect omiyage. Gut microbes will not be accepted.
wagyl wrote:Plus how does this tally with the information from SJ that they no longer stamp your passport? Although I am still on the old style ARC, the last few times the check in staff overseas on my flight back have asked to see ARC (not that they understand what they are looking at) which I suppose has come about because of this change.
yanpa wrote:Unless you are planning a trip to India on the new passport, in which case they want to see your current Japanese visa in the current passport if you are applying for an Indian visa in Japan.
Coligny wrote:[But hey, at least this sad excuse of a country got nukes...
Ol Dirty Gaijin wrote:Take a copy of whichever card you hold along with the non-national form.
The company that does the Indian visas is a huge scam. Check their variable pricing for non Japanese. The on-line system has made the turn around quicker but you better not make a mistake as you cannot make any alterations.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Coligny wrote:[But hey, at least this sad excuse of a country got nukes...
Why are you so hard on your motherland?
Coligny wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:Coligny wrote:[But hey, at least this sad excuse of a country got nukes...
Why are you so hard on your motherland?
Dood, we got indoor plumbing and electricity...
wagyl wrote:Ol Dirty Gaijin wrote:Take a copy of whichever card you hold along with the non-national form.
The company that does the Indian visas is a huge scam. Check their variable pricing for non Japanese. The on-line system has made the turn around quicker but you better not make a mistake as you cannot make any alterations.
I don't know the details in that case, but I do know that many countries have processing fees which differ greatly depending on the nationality of the applicant. It is called reciprocity in the diplomatic world, and tit-for-tat elsewhere, and is very common.
Coligny wrote:yanpa wrote:Unless you are planning a trip to India on the new passport, in which case they want to see your current Japanese visa in the current passport if you are applying for an Indian visa in Japan.
Why would you go there ? Tired of life and civilization ? Urge to get raped on a bus ? Bored with indoor plumbing ! Scared of electricity ?
yanpa wrote:wagyl wrote:Ol Dirty Gaijin wrote:Take a copy of whichever card you hold along with the non-national form.
The company that does the Indian visas is a huge scam. Check their variable pricing for non Japanese. The on-line system has made the turn around quicker but you better not make a mistake as you cannot make any alterations.
I don't know the details in that case, but I do know that many countries have processing fees which differ greatly depending on the nationality of the applicant. It is called reciprocity in the diplomatic world, and tit-for-tat elsewhere, and is very common.
Yeah, I remember there being some totally other (higher) price for US citizens
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Yeah, we defenders of all your freedoms get that a lot thanks to "reciprocity".
Samurai_Jerk wrote:
FYI, I'm on a Specialist in Humanities/International Services visa.
legion wrote:Bit weird if they don't put the visa in your passport, might make people's lives complicated if they need to prove where they have been for the past few years if they decide to return to their own country permanently.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:legion wrote:Bit weird if they don't put the visa in your passport, might make people's lives complicated if they need to prove where they have been for the past few years if they decide to return to their own country permanently.
I'm sure it's all recorded in the IC chips in our passports. In fact, if they wanted to, I'm sure they could probably tell us all what we're going to do before we've even done it.
wagyl wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:legion wrote:Bit weird if they don't put the visa in your passport, might make people's lives complicated if they need to prove where they have been for the past few years if they decide to return to their own country permanently.
I'm sure it's all recorded in the IC chips in our passports. In fact, if they wanted to, I'm sure they could probably tell us all what we're going to do before we've even done it.
I doubt that the nation which issued the passport permits other nations to write data into the chip. Japan still religiously and very neatly stamps you in and out, you will just no longer have the QR code sticker I suppose.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:legion wrote:Bit weird if they don't put the visa in your passport, might make people's lives complicated if they need to prove where they have been for the past few years if they decide to return to their own country permanently.
I'm sure it's all recorded in the IC chips in our passports. In fact, if they wanted to, I'm sure they could probably tell us all what we're going to do before we've even done it.
omae mona wrote:FYI very easy to skip the stamping, at least in the way out, if you are a foreign resident of Japan. If you signed up for the automated gate program they introduced a few years ago and actually use one, the default is for them not to stamp your passport. You explicitly have to request it. But it's quite optional. I can only speak from experience on departures out of Japan though; the automated gate has never been available in the arrivals area of any of my return flights.
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