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Bucky wrote:Mrs. Bucky obtained US citizenship in 2008. We were doing some estate planning at the time and being a citizen made sense when considering our estate should she survive me.
At the same time, she made a point to renew her Japanese passport to insure that she could maintain her Japanese citizenship for at least the life of the passport. (Yes I know Japan does not officially recognize dual citizenship.)
Well, we are ten years on now and her Japanese passport is coming up for renewal. We are planning a trip to Japan shortly and she is investigating the idea of renewing her Japanese passport in Japan. Going to the consulate here, they would require her to show her greencard -- which she does not have. She is concerned that if she tries to renew her passport in Japan while we are there that the passport folks will not rubber-stamp a new passport for her.
Anyone gone through this sort of experience?
Bucky
Bucky wrote:Follow-up. Mrs. Bucky was able to successfully renew her Japanese passport for another 10 years. Apparently the renewal went off without a hitch and she departed Japan two weeks ago -- exiting with the Japanese passport and re-entering the US on her American passport...
Taro Toporific wrote:Bucky wrote:Follow-up. Mrs. Bucky was able to successfully renew her Japanese passport for another 10 years. Apparently the renewal went off without a hitch and she departed Japan two weeks ago -- exiting with the Japanese passport and re-entering the US on her American passport...
Thanks for the info.
It's always hard to find out trustworthy, "real-world" examples of what actually happens.
(Every time I go through Japanese Immigration at Narita, I expect flashing lights and klaxon horns to go off, a huge net dropping from the ceiling to drag me to the trapdoor that has a vacuum to suck me down into the cages of the deep sub-basements of the Gaijin Gulag and electrified anal probes.)
Wage Slave wrote:Taro Toporific wrote:Bucky wrote:Follow-up. Mrs. Bucky was able to successfully renew her Japanese passport for another 10 years. Apparently the renewal went off without a hitch and she departed Japan two weeks ago -- exiting with the Japanese passport and re-entering the US on her American passport...
Thanks for the info.
It's always hard to find out trustworthy, "real-world" examples of what actually happens.
(Every time I go through Japanese Immigration at Narita, I expect flashing lights and klaxon horns to go off, a huge net dropping from the ceiling to drag me to the trapdoor that has a vacuum to suck me down into the cages of the deep sub-basements of the Gaijin Gulag and electrified anal probes.)
Indeed. That's useful information and thank you. Havill must be fuming at his console.
wagyl wrote:J-language.
Is that anything like Japanese?
Wage Slave wrote:I don't know, it can certainly be overused as can any manner of speaking, but is it always bad?
How about J-Pop? How about using Brit as an abbreviation the same way? Oz? Aussie?
We could easily use Jap but that is connotationally unsound. And Japanese is sometimes a bit long, formal and hence insufficiently chummy (as is the way with formal English) so I'd say J + noun has a useful place.
Mike Oxlong wrote:...a friendly in-group shorthand...
Takechanpoo wrote:so-called derogatory words are just the ones which certain amount of people have used in negative context for a certain period of time. nothing more, nothing less. jap itself, nip itself, yellow itself, oriental itself, chink itself, gook itself, etc are not derogatory at all. so if those so-called derogatory words are used in positive context by certain amont of people for a certain period of time, they will be positive cool words. the nuances of words are nothing more, nothing less. its pretty fucking redicurous and hypocritical to ban using those so-called derogatory words itself.
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